Five civil liberty advocacy organizations filed a motion...
Five civil liberty advocacy organizations filed a motion to participate in oral arguments (http://1.usa.gov/1hGltEj) backing five major tech companies’ effort to release more information about government surveillance requests (CD Oct 3 p5). The advocacy organizations “have substantial experience in advancing…
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arguments rooted in the public interest in open judicial proceedings,” said the motion submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. “Our participation in oral argument would, we submit, assist the Court in its deliberations, facilitate the public’s understanding and evaluation of government surveillance programs, and provide transparency to a judicial oversight process that has been the subject of considerable discussion, some accurate, some not.” The group had previously filed a brief in support of the tech companies, led by Google and Microsoft. The organizations hoping to participate are the First Amendment Coalition, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and TechFreedom.