Church Committee
This congressional committee investigated intelligence abuses after Watergate.
What is the Church Committee?
FISA stands for this.
What is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act?
This title covers electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence.
What is Title I?
This doctrine says you lose privacy when you share information with others.
What is the Third-Party Doctrine?
This program collected millions of telegrams from U.S. companies.
What is Operation SHAMROCK?
The committee was led by this U.S. Senator.
Who is Senator Frank Church?
FISA was passed in this year.
What is 1978?
This title allowed bulk collection of business records, including phone metadata.
What is Title V?
This case ruled that dialed phone numbers are not protected by the Fourth Amendment.
What is Smith v. Maryland?
Bulk data collection often focuses on this type of information rather than content.
What is metadata?
This FBI program targeted civil rights activists and political dissidents.
What is COINTELPRO?
This court was created to oversee surveillance requests under FISA.
What is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)?
This title allows covert physical searches.
What is Title III?
This case established the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test.
What is Katz v. United States?
Critics argue bulk collection leads to this widespread monitoring practice.
What is mass surveillance?
This civil rights leader was secretly surveilled by the FBI.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
FISA was created to balance national security with this constitutional amendment.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This title deals with pen registers and trap-and-trace devices.
What is Title IV?
This case ruled that bank records are not private because they are held by a third party.
What is United States v. Miller?
Supporters argue bulk collection is essential for this purpose.
What is counterterrorism/intelligence gathering?
This intelligence agency was found to be conducting mass surveillance without warrants.
What is the NSA?
This scandal directly contributed to the creation of FISA.
What is Watergate?
This section allows targeting of non-U.S. persons abroad.
What is Section 702 (Title VII)?
This case limited the doctrine by requiring warrants for cell-site location data.
What is Carpenter v. United States?
This major issue sits at the center of the debate between privacy and surveillance.
What is the balance between national security and privacy rights?