Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:05:42 +0000
Prominent advocates for the rights of pregnant people are urging members of Congress to support legislation that would ban warrantless access to sensitive data as the White House fights against it.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:15:40 +0000
Top congressional lawmakers are meeting in private to discuss the future of a widely unpopular surveillance program, worrying members devoted to reforming Section 702.
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Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Members of the US Congress touted improvements to children’s privacy protections as an urgent priority. So why didn’t they do anything about it?
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:20:53 +0000
Competing bills moving through the House of Representatives both reauthorize Section 702 surveillance—but they pave very different paths forward for Americans’ privacy and civil liberties.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:52:39 +0000
Legislation set to be introduced in Congress this week would extend Section 702 surveillance of people applying for green cards, asylum, and some visas—subjecting loved ones to similar intrusions.
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Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000
In a year pocked with fights over US government funding, Republicans are quietly trying to strip the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of its ability to research gun violence.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:03:17 +0000
Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial surveillance program that they say poses an “alarming threat to civil rights.”
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 20:27:09 +0000
Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.
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