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29 Mar 2023, 11:15 am
The rhyme is right (interest rates!) [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 1:05 pm
It’s too simple to say that he came to Albany as general counsel of New York State United Teachers. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 12:03 pm
The United States has fundamental national security and foreign policy interests in (1) ensuring that technology is developed, deployed, and governed in accordance with universal human rights; the rule of law; and appropriate legal authorization, safeguards, and oversight, such that it supports, and does not undermine, democracy, civil rights and civil liberties, and public safety; and (2) mitigating, to the greatest extent… [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 7:52 am
The question of a tester’s legal right to sue, known as “standing,” comes to the court in a case filed by Deborah Laufer, who has brought 600 lawsuits against hotels around the United States. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 6:05 am
The European Union and the United States, the biggest two donors, objected to the legislation, as did prominent international NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 1:25 am
Surveillance Civil rights groups, including Liberty and StopWatch, have published an open letter to the Manchester Mayor and Chief Constable of Greater Manchester asking them to investigate the use of gang surveillance in cases invoking the common law doctrine of joint enterprise. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 4:00 am
Enforced disappearance also violates treaty rights, including multiple rights guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Canada acceded in 1976. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 9:51 am
On the day it became law in 2008, the ACLU and other privacy and civil liberties organizations sued to have Section 702 declared unconstitutional. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 4:59 am
The documents revealed in response to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union against the FBI show officials developed techniques that could help identify or track Americans without their awareness or consent. [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 5:16 am
The role of regulation has been a constant source of tension between the public and private sectors, namely how to strike the right balance between mandates and incentives. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 4:28 am
However civil liberties advocates, as well as Trump-aligned Republicans distrustful of security agencies, have expressed opposition to the program. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 9:47 am
However, critics of the plan say that it will result in unnecessary data collection and intrusion on civil liberties. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 5:16 am
For individual complaints from qualifying countries, the intelligence community’s civil liberties and privacy officer will conduct an initial review. [read post]
25 Feb 2023, 6:15 am
” —David Cole, national legal director, American Civil Liberties Union [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 6:15 am
The release of the final report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol was the culmination of a yearslong sprint to uncover the facts behind the attempted insurrection. [read post]
13 Feb 2023, 5:51 am
In the past, reauthorization was a foregone conclusion, and civil liberties advocates struggled to secure even minor procedural safeguards. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 6:08 am
As a result, the United States is all too often perceived as having enabled human rights abuses and atrocities committed by its foreign partners. [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 5:31 am
Section 702’s reauthorization is Congress’s chance to take a close look at the program and require changes that protect Americans’ civil liberties. [read post]
8 Feb 2023, 6:05 pm
“All” people have those rights though it took a civil war to enshrine those principles in the text of the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery, the Fourteenth Amendment, attempting to protect life, liberty and property with equal protection and due process of law, the Fifteenth Amendment attempting to guarantee voting rights to the descendants of those brought here as slaves, and the Nineteenth Amendment finally recognizing women’s right… [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm
In September 2020, four months after the murder of George Floyd, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland convened an advisory council that included clergy, civil rights leaders, legislators, public defenders, and police officers, and charged it with “reimagining policing” in the city. [read post]
