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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is challenging the government over its National Security Letters , known as NSLs. EFF filed two briefs with the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week claiming the letters violate the First Amendment by preventing letter recipients from notifying their clients of the letters existence or that they are contesting the letters in court. (EFF, March 3, 2014, press release) Even though a federal judge ruled last year that

The National Security Agency has released court documents that authorized the agency to build a huge collection of e-mail and online metadata from the American public to fight terrorism. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court authorized the collection. (The Washington Post, November 18, 2013, by Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller) The Electronic Freedom Foundation is challenging NSA’s record collection program in court. EFF said about the amicus briefs in the case that they show “the destructive

The National Security Agency (NSA) says it needs its gargantuan surveillance network to defend against terrorism, but in reality the spying goes far beyond seeking information about foreign threats by invading citizens’ private lives on a “breathtaking scale.” (Electronic Freedom Foundation, November 11, 2013, by Trevor Timm) The EFF said the NSA surveillance threatens free speech of advocacy groups who are leery of  expressing dissenting views with the knowledge that NSA is recording every phone