7 internet giants, including Mozilla, Reddit and Twitter, asked the House to do what the Senate narrowly missed doing: protect browsing history.
Tag Archives: Patriot Act
Senate renews warrantless collection of web histories
The government can keep on surveilling your online life without a warrant. An amendment to ban it failed by just one vote.
Proposed standard would make warrant canaries machine-readable
For years, organisations have been using a common tactic called the warrant canary to warn people that the government has secretly demanded access to their private information. Now, a proposed standard could make this tool easier to use.
NSA won’t collect phone location data, promises US government
US intelligence agencies won’t harvest US residents’ geolocation data in future investigations, revealed the US government this month.
Surveillance court OKs NSA phone metadata collection for six more months
Let the NSA’s bulk metadata collection continue for six more months, the court rules, until the phone companies get control over the records. Plus ça change…!
Thousands of sites block and redirect Congress to Patriot Act protest page
#ifeelnaked, the protest page says, showing nude photos in protest of surveillance that feels like online strip search. The Senate on Sunday let three Patriot Act provisions expire. 
Canary Watch site will keep an eye out for vanishing warrant canaries
Canary Watch will track changes to these transparency report statements that would indicate providers had received subpoenas with gag orders. 
US House committee unanimously votes to rein in NSA, end bulk data collection
The USA Freedom Act is a watered-down version of an earlier bill – it’s been re-dubbed the “Freedumb Act” – and it’s seen as a weakened compromise between the intelligence community and those concerned with people’s rights not to be snooped on. But hey, privacy groups say, it’s still a step in the right direction. 