ContentsIntroduction1. An Overview of QDTD Reports 1.1 Methodology and Main Common Criteria 1.2 Highlights of Achievments and Gaps 1.3 The COVID-19 Pandemic Reflected in QDTD Reports 1.4 Regional Comparison of Major Featured Companies2. The Application of Human Rights Standards to Communications Surveillance:...

This report details how, despite repeated efforts by Congress and federal courts, the FBI’s controversial national security letter (“NSL”) authority remains unconstitutional by subjecting recipients to indefinite prior restraints. EFF’s analysis of records it obtained in a Freedom of Information Act suit concludes that absent further judicial or legislative intervention...