Rainey Reitman, who leads the activism team at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, talks to the audience during a "Campus Party" Internet users gathering in Sao Paulo January 30, 2013. REUTERS/Nacho ...

Edward Snowden’s disclosures and subsequent government declassifications have prompted a wave of proposals to retool the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). Some of these proposed ...

The presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) has issued a stinging rebuke to the FBI in the wake of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the ...

A government spies on hundreds of millions of its citizens. It claims the authority to engage in mass spying based on secret orders of a secret court making secret interpretations of the law. The ...

This week, the chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) defended his court as an adequate bureaucratic check on government surveillance, denying that the court is merely a ...

Background: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), a specialized court created by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), oversees the federal government’s foreign surveillance ...

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which meets in secret to approve the government's secret requests for communications data is not known for its openness. As the Court has become a ...

For decades, a special court—the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, or “FISC”—has issued secret legal opinions authorizing the U.S. government to conduct sweeping programs of electronic ...

The ACLU has filed three motions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) asking it to release secret opinions authorizing the surveillance of Americans. The public has a right to see the ...