FBI: FISA Section 702 'absolutely critical' to spy on, err, protect Americans(theregister.com)

195 points by rntn 3 years ago | 66 comments

The FBI as advanced persistent threat(theregister.com)

211 points by jjgreen 3 years ago | 163 comments

FBI Director: FISA Section 702 warrant requirement a 'de facto ban'(theregister.com)

170 points by rntn 2 years ago | 124 comments

Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights(theregister.com)

36 points by pseudolus 2 years ago | 31 comments

UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition(theregister.com)

154 points by belter 3 years ago | 112 comments

Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT 'privacy violations'(theregister.com)

178 points by Nadeus 3 years ago | 159 comments

FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says(wsj.com)

341 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 181 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting the FBI improperly searched a foreign-intelligence database for information on Jan. 6 rioters and George Floyd protesters, per the FISA court.

FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections(techdirt.com)

348 points by repelsteeltje 2 years ago | 94 comments

Techdirt article on FBI Director Wray admitting the agency rarely has probable cause when performing backdoor searches of NSA Section 702 collections.

FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is(heise.de)

907 points by Projectiboga 11 months ago | 456 comments

Heise news article reporting that the FBI obtained a court order forcing domain provider Tucows to hand over user data about the operator of Archive.today.

FSE meets the FBI(blog.freespeechextremist.com)

365 points by 1337p337 1 year ago | 117 comments

A blog post from the Free Speech Extremist fediverse instance describing how it traced FBI-contracted scrapers collecting its data and how the FBI processes it.

The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702(eff.org)

321 points by freedomben 3 years ago | 123 comments

EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FBI's misuse of Section 702 surveillance powers shows it cannot be trusted with the authority ahead of reauthorization.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.