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Jan 22, 2025 | 
justsecurity.org | Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Spencer Reynolds
Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an inventory of DHS systems that incorporate AI, covering systems that are active, in development, and sunsetted. The DHS AI inventory provides information about every one of its 158 active AI use cases, representing a significant achievement compared to the now-archived DHS 2023 inventory, which contained just 67 use cases.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
brennancenter.org | Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Spencer Reynolds
View the entire Artificial Intelligence and National Security collection This article first appeared in Just Security. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an inventory of DHS systems that incorporate AI, covering systems that are active, in development, and sunsetted.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Erin Smith |Lauren Miller |Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez
Suscríbete aquí al nuevo boletín informativo del Brennan Center en español Desde 2022 cuando la decisión de la Corte Suprema en la causa Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization despojó a la población estadounidense del derecho constitucional al aborto a nivel federal, es la ley estatal la que, por lo general, determina si se dispone de atención médica para un aborto en una jurisdicción y en qué circunstancias.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Elizabeth Goitein |Emile Ayoub |Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez
American data privacy law was already weak before the explosion of data caused by smartphones and high-speed internet service. Data broker companies have been taking advantage — and so has law enforcement. Congress must act to bring them all into line with legislation that gives Americans’ privacy protections a badly needed update. Today, the Brennan Center has published a resource that explains how Congress can do just that.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Rachel Levinson-Waldman
Introduction Social media is a powerful tool for connection and civic involvement, serving myriad purposes.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Elizabeth Goitein |Noah C. Chauvin |Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez
Section 702 of FISA is a warrantless surveillance authority that is supposed to be targeted only at non-Americans located abroad. But intelligence agencies have turned Section 702 into a domestic spying tool, using it to conduct hundreds of thousands of warrantless “backdoor” searches for Americans’ private communications every year, including baseless searches for the communications of racial justice protestors, members of Congress, and political donors.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
brennancenter.org | Michael German |Faiza Patel |Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez
The Department of Justice has been publishing incomplete and conflicting data on domestic terrorism, thwarting effective policymaking and accountability on an issue it claims to prioritize. In December, the Brennan Center sent a letter to the department urging it to augment its data collection methods to ensure more accurate reporting in the future.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez |Katherine Ebright |Faiza Patel
FISA “REFORM” AND REAUTHORIZATION ACT: A WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING Despite its name, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act is not a reform bill. It is an anti-reform bill in disguise. Not only does it fail to rein in warrantless surveillance of Americans under Section 702; it would actually expand surveillance in critical respects, effectively rewarding the FBI for years of misconduct and thus encouraging even more flagrant abuse in the future.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Elizabeth Goitein |Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez |Faiza Patel
It’s a basic constitutional principle: law enforcement and intelligence agencies need a warrant to listen to your phone calls or read your emails. Agencies, however, have found a workaround. An arcane law, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, passed in 2008 and is set to expire at the end this year. Congress should not renew it without adding important safeguards for Americans’ rights.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
brennancenter.org | Rachel Levinson-Waldman |Jose Gutierrez |José Gutiérrez |Katherine Ebright |Faiza Patel
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was enacted to make it easier for the government to address foreign terrorist threats. The law gives the government broad authority to surveil non-Americans located abroad, but targeting Americans is prohibited.
