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NSA, Justice Department Sued

“If there’s one thing that [the National Security Agency (NSA)] values, it’s secrecy,” says Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Mark Rumold. “They’ve been allowed to operate in ways that aren’t always consistent with the public’s understanding of the laws and the Constitution or even other parts of the executive branch’s interpretation of the laws.”

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit over a ruling by the secretive Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). That ruling found parts of a classified Department of Justice (DOJ) surveillance program to be in violation of  the Fourth Amendment. The court’s decision only became public after a letter from the NSA to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) mentioned it.

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Feds Hounded Net Activist

A friend of the late Aaron Swartz blames the federal government for driving the computer programmer, hacker and activist to commit suicide last week. “The idea that an agent of the federal government would be able to pick out a person and threaten to ruin their life is not the kind of thing that we hope for in a justice system,” says Parker Higgins, an internet activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Swartz helped create the web syndication process RSS. He also was instrumental in founding the popular social media site REDDIT and organizing the successful campaign against the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA). He was facing up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for downloading more than 4 million academic articles from the database JSTOR. H/T Reason.TV

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