Three strikes against unchecked government spying and censorship

By |2016-12-05T18:09:48-08:00May 13th, 2015|Categories: Articles, News|Tags: , , , |

Last week was a busy week for privacy and free speech advocates. In New York, a federal appeals court issued a decision finding that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) telephone metadata collection program is illegal. In California, a federal court issued a preliminary injunction against a San Diego jail policy allowing “postcards only” for inmates. In Washington D.C., a federal court held that conducting invasive, forensic searches of laptops seized at airports is illegal.