The Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability (PPSA) is a nonpartisan nonprofit advocacy organization that advances stronger privacy protections and oversight of government surveillance programs. PPSA pursues public education, congressional engagement, and Freedom of Information Act litigation to expose and constrain practices it views as inconsistent with constitutional and statutory privacy protections, with particular focus on FISA and Section 702 authorities.
Surveillance and intelligence oversight (including FISA and Section 702 reform), FOIA and government transparency, limits on unmasking and upstream collection, restrictions on law enforcement use of intelligence-collected data, biometric and digital privacy protections, and congressional and administrative accountability for surveillance programs.
Primarily funded by individual donations and philanthropic foundation grants, supplemented by policy and litigation support and occasional pro bono legal assistance.
FISA Reform Coalition; senior advisers and affiliated individuals include Erik Jaffe (President), Gene Schaerr (General Counsel), former Rep. Bob Goodlatte (Senior Policy Adviser), former Sen. Mark Udall (Senior Policy Adviser), and Mark Davis (Director of Policy).
Incorporated non-profit advocacy organization
