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Tons Of Amendments Proposed For SOPA

The "markup" process for SOPA is going to begin shortly (at 10am ET/7am PT), and it's going to be quite a circus. This is when various amendments can be proposed and debated. You can watch it stream...

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Author Of The Patriot Act Says NSA Surveillance Is An Abuse And Must End

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, who was the chair of the House Judiciary Committee when it put forth the Patriot Act, and someone who's not known for being afraid to support expanded surveillance, has now...

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Author Of The Patriot Act Says Patriot Act Was Written Specifically To...

We already wrote how the main backer of the Patriot Act, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, has said that it was never intended to allow dragnet surveillance of all phone records, as recently revealed. However,...

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Aaron's Law Finally Introduced: Reform The CFAA

Today, Zoe Lofgren and Jim Sensenbrenner in the House and Ron Wyden in the Senate introduced "Aaron's Law," an attempt to reform the widely abused CFAA, so that it no longer sweeps up innocent...

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Author Of The Patriot Act: Congress Will Not Renew If Intelligence Agencies...

We've already pointed out that the key author of the Patriot Act, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, has spoken out against the NSA's surveillance activities, saying that the law was actually written...

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If 'Just Metadata' Isn't An Issue, Why Can't Tech Companies Reveal 'Just...

You may have heard the news today that a bunch of big tech companies -- including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr and others -- have sent a strong letter to a...

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Overcriminalization: Congressional Research Service Doesn't Have The Manpower...

A new video from the Cato Institute discusses the issue of overcriminalization, which is quite interesting: The video discusses the book Three Felonies a Day by Harvey Silvergate, which we've...

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Author Of UK's Terrorism Act Says It Was Never Meant For Situations Like...

In the US, we've had one of the key authors of the Patriot Act, Jim Sensenbrenner, speak out strongly, saying that the NSA interpretation of the law appears to be completely different than what was...

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Author Of Patriot Act As Well As Members Of Church Commission Tell Court NSA...

Here's something I'd bet you never thought you'd see: the EFF teaming up with the author of the Patriot Act, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, to tell a court that the NSA is violating the Patriot Act. This is...

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PATRIOT Act Author Says James Clapper Should Be Fired And Prosecuted; Plans...

We've written a few times about how the author of the PATRIOT Act, Jim Sensenbrenner, has insisted that the bill was written specifically to prevent the kind of datamining we now know the NSA pretends...

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Major New Anti-NSA Bill Dropping Next Week With Powerful Support

We already knew that Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner was getting ready to release a major new anti-NSA spying bill called the USA Freedom Act, and Derek Khanna has just revealed many of the details of the...

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Author Of The PATRIOT Act Goes To EU Parliament To Admit Congress Failed, And...

It's already strange enough that the author of the PATRIOT Act, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, has come out strongly against the NSA's mass spying, said that James Clapper should be fired and prosecuted, and...

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What The USA FREEDOM Act Doesn't Fix

We've discussed the USA FREEDOM Act, introduced in the Senate by Senator Leahy and in the House by Rep. Sensenbrenner a few times now, pointing out that it really does look to rein in the worst of the...

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Seven House Judiciary Members Demand DOJ Investigate James Clapper For Lying...

Since the Snowden revelations first started coming out, forcing James Clapper to admit that he flat-out lied to Congress, we've been somewhat perplexed as to how Clapper could come out of the whole...

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Congressional Reps Ask Bruce Schneier To Explain To Them What The NSA Is...

This is both depressing and good news at the same time. A group of Congressional Representatives (who are among the most critical of the NSA) apparently asked Bruce Schneier to come brief them on what...

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Congress Warns DOJ That If It Doesn't Support NSA Reform Plan, It Won't Renew...

While the USA Freedom Act isn't perfect, it is one bill in Congress that has a lot of support and will fix many problems with the current NSA overreach. Much more needs to be done, but the USA Freedom...

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DOJ Still Refuses To Investigate James Clapper For Lying To Congress

By now, it's well-known that James Clapper directly lied to Congress over a year ago when Senator Ron Wyden asked him whether or not the NSA collected any data at all on millions of Americans (a...

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Competing NSA Reform Bills Suddenly Lurch Forward In Congress

In a bit of a surprise move, the House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, caught people off guard this morning by announcing that there would be a markup of the USA FREEDOM Act on...

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NSA Reform: Do You Support The Lesser Of Two Evils, Or Hope For Something...

We wrote yesterday about Congress suddenly lurching forward with two competing NSA reform bills: the USA Freedom Act from Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner and the House Judiciary Committee and the FISA...

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Looks Like 'Compromise' Has Been Reached On NSA Reform Bills

On Monday, we noted that two different competing NSA reform bills had started lurching forward in Congress, though in looking through the Manager's Amendment of the "good" bill, it quickly became...

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