US: Urgent Need for Surveillance Reforms

Email Recent revelations about the scope of US national security surveillance highlight how dramatic increases in private digital communications and government computing power are fueling surveillance practices that impinge on privacy in ways unimaginable just a few years ago. There is an urgent need for the US Congress to reevaluate and rewrite surveillance laws in light of those technological developments and put in place better safeguards against security agency overreach. (New York) – Recent revelations about the scope of US national security surveillance highlight how dramatic increases…

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