By Cindy Cohn We all deserve the right to have a private conversation online. That’s why EFF has taken on government surveillance for the past 30-plus years. One of our longest-running efforts has been to stop the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance that sweeps up tens—if not hundreds—of millions of innocent people in its dragnet….
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Judge Kills Jewel v. NSA Lawsuit Over Mass Surveillance Programs
Nicholas Iovino reports: A federal judge ruled Thursday that the federal government can use its state secrets privilege to block litigation over its warrantless mass-surveillance programs. The Department of Justice had argued that revealing whether classified evidence it gave the court proves that the government collected five named plaintiffs’ internet and phone data would in…
Big Victory: Judge Pushes Jewel v. NSA Forward
David Greene writes: We won a groundbreaking legal victory late Friday in our Jewel v. NSA case, which challenges the NSA’s Internet and telephone surveillance. Judge Jeffrey White has authorized EFF, on behalf of the plaintiffs, to conduct discovery against the NSA. We had been barred from doing so since the case was filed in 2008, which meant…
Jewel v. NSA: Too Early to Revive U.S. Surveillance Claim – Court
Jamie Ross reports: The Ninth Circuit sidelined a challenge Friday of the government’s Internet surveillance program, finding the issue premature to appeal. Carolyn Jewel is the lead plaintiff behind the federal complaint filed seven years ago in San Francisco, hoping to represent a class of AT&T customers accusing the National Security Agency of using the…