In December 2023, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPCSI) unsuccessfully tried to expand the government’s authority under FISA 702 by permitting it to compel a broader swath of U.S. companies and persons to...

Yesterday the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously approved the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 (FRRA), which would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA 702). The full House is...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced proposed legislation that would impose substantial restrictions on government surveillance and access to data. The Government Surveillance Reform Act (“GSRA”) is a comprehensive privacy reform bill that would: (1) reauthorize...

Adding to the growing number of courts that have struck down the procedures that Google and law enforcement have put in place for “geofence warrants,” a California trial court recently suppressed evidence obtained via such a...

Today, the U.S. took a giant step toward resolving the “Schrems II” EU data transfer problem, possibly allowing the United States to earn a partial adequacy determination from the European Commission early next year. President...

On August 11, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) seeking public comment regarding the collection, aggregation, analysis, retention, transfer, or monetization of consumer data, which the FTC calls “commercial surveillance,”...

Per the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) draft recommendations on data transfers following the Schrems II decision, data exporters and importers must work together to determine whether the importer country’s law ensures an essentially equivalent level of...

This article was originally published in the IAPP Daily Dashboard on August 19, 2020. By invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield but not rejecting wholesale the use of standard contractual clauses to transfer data to the U.S., the...

In United States v. Moore-Bush, the First Circuit recently reversed a Massachusetts District Court decision finding that the Fourth Amendment prohibited sustained video surveillance conducted using a pole-mounted camera in a public space. The Court held that the district...