Senate Should Not Rush Intelligence Bill Passage
The USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020 is the perfect chance to pass much needed reform safeguarding America’s right to privacy. More
PEN American Center Files Amicus Brief in Appeal of ACLU v. Clapper
PEN American Center filed another amicus curiae brief in ACLU v. Clapper as it reaches the Second Circuit on appeal, challenging the constitutionality of the NSA’s mass collection of… More
Reader Privacy Fight Resumes in Congress
Just four weeks before controversial portions of the USA Patriot Act are set to expire, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) last week reintroduced a reauthorization bill that would restore protections… More
Book Groups Launch New Effort to Amend Patriot Act
Organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, and writers today launched the latest phase in their five-year campaign to restore the reader privacy safeguards that were stripped away by the USA… More
Campaign for Reader Privacy Welcomes Testimony by “Gagged” Librarian
Following dramatic testimony today from a Connecticut librarian who successfully challenged an abusive FBI National Security Letter (NSL), organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers and writers called on Congress to… More
Ruling for the Law
Ever since President Bush was forced to admit that he was spying on Americans’ telephone calls and e-mail without warrants, his lawyers have fought to keep challenges to the… More
Patriot Act reauthorization blocked
Writers, booksellers, librarians, and other defenders of reader privacy last night won the biggest battle yet in their four-year fight to restore the protections for the privacy of bookstore… More
Librarian’s brush with FBI shapes her view of the USA Patriot Act
On June 8, 2004, an FBI agent stopped at the Deming branch of the Whatcom County Library System in northwest Washington and requested a list of the people who… More
Deming’s defender of words
The biggest battles, the ones that Really Count, always seem to start in the smallest places. More
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