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Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed

2013-10-02 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Declassified documents revealed that Yahoo secretly fought the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2007-2008, challenging the constitutionality of government demands for direct server access to user data. Yahoo argued the demands violated the …

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FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion

2007-04-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

FISA Court Judge Roger Vinson delivered a significant rebuke to the Bush administration by rejecting the government’s attempt to rewrite FISA statutes to permit expanded warrantless surveillance inside the United States. The government sought to stretch FISA’s definition of a …

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