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Technology and legal experts debated the pros and cons of social media and its role in democracy. The discussion was a part of the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit’s judiciary conference …

The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Aviation and Maritime Security held a virtual hearing on the safety of air travel during the coronavirus pandemic. Representatives from the U.S. T…

The Cato Institute hosted a day-long conference on government surveillance and privacy issues. This portion included a panel discussion analyzing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (F…

The House Oversight and Reform Committee held the first in a series of hearings on the impact on civil rights and liberties of the use of facial recognition technology by the government and …

A bipartisan group of senators held a news conference on the re-authorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 was set to expire at the end of …

Privacy advocates, legal scholars and the U.S. deputy assistant attorney general, talked about issues related to a legislative proposal that allows foreign police access to U.S. social media…

Panelists talked about improving government surveillance. The discussion focused on how to protect the civil liberties of private U.S. citizens without sacrificing national security.

Neema Singh Giulani and Mike Doucette talked about privacy aspects of cell phone tracking and reasons law enforcement consider it a valuable tool.

Congress is looking at updating the 30-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which was written before most Americans used email. Congress is working to update laws on govern…

Stewart Baker and Neema Singh Guliani talked about the end of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of phone metadata and how this could affect terrorism investigations. Th…

Legal analysts talked about government surveillance and data gathering technologies in the digital age. They also discussed the roles of Congress, courts, and the administration in enacting …

Neema Singh Guliani and Steven Bradbury talked about the reauthorization of parts of the Patriot Act and its effectiveness since its passage shortly after September 11, 2001. They responded …