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DuckDuckGo publicly states it does not retain user search histories and therefore has no user-specific search data to provide in response to legal demands; independent reporting and the company’s tran...
The FREEDOM Act of 2015 curtailed the most controversial surveillance power created in the post‑9/11 era by ending the government's statutory authority to perform bulk collection of domestic call‑deta...
The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (IG) concluded in December 2019 that FBI use of the Steele dossier in FISA applications contained serious errors and omissions — including 17 ...
Within days of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report finding widespread errors and omissions in FBI FISA applications, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) issued a series of...
The role of Christopher Steele’s dossier in the FBI’s Carter Page FISA applications is disputed in official reports and political statements: the DOJ Inspector General found the dossier “played a cent...