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Ashley Gorski

@ashgorski
7 posts
2025-01-23
Last night, for the first time, a federal court held that the FBI's warrantless queries of Section 702 databases violated the Fourth Amendment. Enormous win for privacy rights. The opinion is here: https://www.aclu.org/...
2025-01-23 View on X
Cato Institute

A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment

but nonetheless, today's decision that Section 702 data cannot be used to spy on US persons without a warrant was hard-fought and actually a pretty big deal.  —  www.eff.org/deepli...

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Yesterday's decision was the first of its kind, in part because the government has made it extraordinarily difficult for people to challenge Section 702 surveillance and these warrantless queries in court. More here: https://www.aclu.org/...
2025-01-23 View on X
Cato Institute

A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment

but nonetheless, today's decision that Section 702 data cannot be used to spy on US persons without a warrant was hard-fought and actually a pretty big deal.  —  www.eff.org/deepli...

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2023-05-23
Huge news: Facebook will be required to halt data flows from the EU to the U.S., due to the staggering scope of U.S. government surveillance and lack of adequate remedies for people subject to illegal spying: https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-05-23 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The EU issues Meta a record €1.2B GDPR fine for sending European user data to the US and orders stopping the transfers and unlawful processing within six months

but only for 15 minutes European Data Protection Board : Binding Decision 1/2023 on the dispute submitted by the Irish SA on data transfers by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for it...

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2023-03-03
A TikTok ban would violate the First Amendment, which protects our rights to speak, to receive information, and to associate freely. These are fundamental rights, and the government hasn't come close to justifying such an extraordinary measure: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2023-03-03 View on X
Washington Post

US civil liberties and digital rights groups are speaking out against calls to ban TikTok, arguing the move would violate users' First Amendment rights

Happy Thursday!  If you've ever thought some people in Washington should be in straitjackets, well, I guess you got your wish.

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2023-02-22
Disappointing decision today by the Supreme Court to deny cert in Wikimedia v. NSA, a challenge to the mass surveillance of Americans' international communications. In short: the government's unjustified claims of secrecy prevailed over the rule of law. https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-02-22 View on X
Reuters

SCOTUS declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge of the NSA's warrantless Upstream surveillance of foreign targets, leaving in place a lower court's 2015 dismissal

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a bid by the operator of the popular Wikipedia internet encyclopedia …

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2022-03-26
If the Biden administration and the European Commission announce a new Privacy Shield deal without U.S. legislative reforms, the deal will almost certainly be struck down by the EU's highest court (again)—leaving U.S. companies in the lurch. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-26 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The EU and US reach a preliminary deal to store data about Europeans on US soil, after the EU declared the previous pact illegal in 2020

leaving U.S. companies in the lurch. https://twitter.com/... @dcms : We welcome the announcement of an agreement in principle on adequacy between the EU and the US Global events sh...

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2022-03-23
The Supreme Court's decision in Fazaga just made an EU-US Privacy Shield agreement even harder—@PatrickCToomey & I explain: https://thehill.com/...
2022-03-23 View on X
The Hill

A SCOTUS ruling making it harder for people to pursue surveillance cases will undercut Biden's US-EU Privacy Shield negotiations, unless Congress steps in now

@PatrickCToomey & I explain: https://thehill.com/...

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