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21 Jan 2014, 5:45 am by Mark Graber
Sawin suggest that history is a better source for clarifying questions about the national surveillance state than the means by which we can determine as a constitutional or policy matter what surveillance techniques the government can or cannot adopt. [read post]
30 Nov 2015, 1:45 pm by David Greene and Nadia Kayyali
Previously, the FISC almost always heard only from the government in deciding whether to grant the government's requests to conduct surveillance. [read post]
2 Sep 2018, 2:29 pm by David Kris
Instead, if a judge denies such an application, the government’s only statutory remedy is to take an appeal to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 1:33 pm by Matthew Guariglia
This was, to put it plainly, a government intelligence agency spreading fake news that could have deliberately injured people exercising their First Amendment rights. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 10:29 am by Karen Gullo
The SFPD flouted a law meant to bring democratic control over government access to privacy-intrusive camera networks that can be used, as they were here, to spy on people exercising their First Amendment right to protest.EFF uncovered evidence showing the SFPD broke the law when it obtained and used a  business district’s network of more than 300 video surveillance cameras to conduct remote, live surveillance of Black-led protests for eight days in May and June… [read post]
8 Feb 2022, 1:34 pm by Matthew Guariglia
But the civil liberties of these communities are of no concern to a government with nearly limitless resources to throw at putting entire regions of the United States under surveillance. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 2:15 pm
Know Your Rights: Students’ Free Speech Rights Much like other forms of surveillance, government monitoring of students’ social media accounts — which often includes surveillance of their lives outside of school — can have a disproportionate effect on people of color. [read post]
11 Dec 2019, 10:10 am by Alexia Ramirez
As we’ve cited multiple times, a December 2016 report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform discloses that, as of 2016, CBP and ICE had spent a combined $13 million to purchase and operate at least 92 cell-site simulators. [read post]
3 Mar 2016, 8:34 am by Corynne McSherry and Shahid Buttar
Open access Through various departmental grant programs, our federal government funds billions of dollars’ worth of grants intended to benefit the public. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 8:57 am by Dave Maass
"Just as the Internet has become an avenue for surveillance, it is also a mechanism for the public to hold the government accountable for its unchecked secrecy," said John Wonderlich, policy director at the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 12:00 am
  When former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed classified information about widespread government surveillance programs, he launched a public debate about privacy in the digital age. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 7:33 am by David Kris
These laws, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that interprets them, govern a lot of SIGINT. [read post]
6 Oct 2016, 10:14 am by Benjamin Wittes
There is something very wrong with doing a complex legal and factual analysis without access to either the facts or the legal thinking that went into the surveillance in the government, at the court, and at Yahoo. [read post]
What is so interesting and smart about this move is that rather than telling the government that they no longer want to help the government, they re-architected iOS so they are unable to help the government. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 12:31 pm by Mark Rumold
” Importantly, the National Security Division is the division of DOJ that represents the government in cases before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the secret court that oversees much of the government’s domestic spying operations. [read post]
28 Nov 2018, 11:28 am by Camille Fischer
Law enforcement shouldn’t be given secret standards and allowances for how they can access encrypted data and surveil the public. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 3:05 pm by amackey
The U.S. government’s foreign surveillance law is so secretive that not even a service provider challenging an order issued by a secret court got to access it. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 10:05 am by Katitza Rodriguez
The government has opportunistically exploited these fears to launch sophisticated surveillance programs and adopt draconian laws. [read post]