{"id":29863,"date":"2017-10-24T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29863"},"modified":"2017-10-24T15:30:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:30:57","slug":"eff-eff-and-aclu-ask-appeals-court-to-find-section-702-surveillance-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29863","title":{"rendered":"EFF: EFF and ACLU Ask Appeals Court to Find Section 702 Surveillance Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2017\/10\/eff-and-aclu-ask-appeals-court-find-section-702-surveillance-unconstitutional\">EFF and ACLU Ask Appeals Court to Find Section 702 Surveillance Unconstitutional<\/a> by Andrew Crocker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Congress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2017\/10\/usa-liberty-act-wont-fix-whats-most-broken-nsa-internet-surveillance\">considers reforming Section 702<\/a>, the NSA\u2019s warrantless surveillance authority, EFF and ACLU are asking a federal court of appeals in New York to find this surveillance unconstitutional. Section 702 allows the government to collect billions of electronic\u00a0communications\u2014including those of Americans\u2014and to use these communications in criminal investigations, all without a warrant. Our amicus brief\u00a0in United States v. Hasbajrami argues that this practice represents an end run around the Fourth Amendment, which protects the privacy of e-mail and other electronic communications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: EFF and ACLU Ask Appeals Court to Find Section 702 Surveillance Unconstitutional by Andrew Crocker: As Congress considers reforming Section 702, the NSA\u2019s warrantless surveillance authority, EFF and ACLU are asking a federal court of appeals in New York &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29865,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29863\/revisions\/29865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}