Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

EPIC, Coalition Statement on PCLOB 702 Report

Today, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued its long-awaited report on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The report, endorsed by a majority of the Board’s members, sheds new light on abuses over the past few years, revealing that, “[i]n the reporting period covering November 2020 to December 2021, non-compliant queries related to civil unrest numbered in the tens of thousands.”

• FISA Section 702

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Statements

PCLOB Recommends Individualized Judicial Approval for Accessing Americans’ Communications under Section 702

Today, as part of its new oversight report on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the majority of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) recommended that agencies be required to obtain individualized judicial approval before accessing the results of searches of Americans’ communications, otherwise known as “backdoor searches,” except with the consent of that person or under exigent circumstances.

• FISA Section 702

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Comments: PCLOB Investigation of Section 702 Surveillance

• Fourth Amendment

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

EPIC Urges PCLOB to Investigate Fusion Centers, Aerial Surveillance

• Drones & Aerial Surveillance

• Government Databases

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Comments to the PCLOB on Domestic Terrorism

• Drones & Aerial Surveillance

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

EPIC Urges PCLOB to Examine Impacts of Domestic Terrorism Investigations

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Drones & Aerial Surveillance

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Comments: Agenda for PCLOB May 2022 Meeting on Domestic Terrorism

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Drones & Aerial Surveillance

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

Senators Reveal CIA Bulk Collection Spy Program Operated Without Statutory Controls or Oversight

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Wiretapping

• Updates