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On Sept. 13, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that the United Kingdom’s bulk data-collection programs violate human-rights law by failing to incorporate adequate privacy safeguards and oversight—but that mass surveillance and intelligence sharing did not violate international law.
The House and Senate intelligence committees have put forth a draft of their priorities for the intelligence community in 2019.
The worrisome message in lawmakers’ confusion on a procedural motion.
The Senate intelligence committee released the findings Tuesday of its review of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election. The document is below.
How to understand the NSA’s June 28 announcement about its call-detail record databases.
The U.K. government has released the following five codes of practice establishing procedures and safeguards for the use of the Investigatory Powers Act of 2016.
New polling aims to shed light on Americans’ perceptions of the intelligence community and to test the claim that efforts by these agencies to be more open will enhance their popular support.
At its heart, intelligence collection is a simple—yet fragile—process. And President Trump's recent actions will make it much more difficult for U.S. intelligence officers to develop and recruit new sources in the future.
What happens when the outing of intelligence sources is the province not of rogue insiders but of senior officials in two branches of this country’s government?
Lawmakers have proposed reforms to how Canada’s national security and intelligence agencies share information with one another. But unless information-sharing is mandatory, broader reforms will be squandered.