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21 May 2007, 10:26 am
The bill also grants retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies that aided the government's warrantless spying program. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 1:30 pm
The coalition urges that any legislative or Administration effort to reform the USA PATRIOT Act must include: 1) Ending bulk collection under Section 215 provision, as well as under Section 214, the provision governing pen registers and trap and trace devices; and 2) Transparency and accountability measures for government and private sector reporting, as well as a proposal for the declassification of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court decisions. [read post]
10 May 2022, 6:16 pm
“By reaching into the digital records of state and local governments and buying databases with billions of data points from private companies, ICE has created a surveillance infrastructure that enables it to pull detailed dossiers on nearly anyone, seemingly at any time. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 11:57 am
Amnesty International, the 2013 challenge to Section 702 surveillance programs, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli represented to the Supreme Court that the government would notify criminal defendants when it planned to use evidence derived from Section 702 surveillance. [read post]
29 Jan 2007, 3:02 am
I should add that the FISA court orders in question presumably are only with respect to the particular electronic surveillance requested by the government in a particular case. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 3:26 pm
The FISA Amendments Act permits the government to conduct dragnet secret surveillance of Americans’ international communications—that is, surveillance that is not limited to a specific person and may go on for up to one year without any court approval. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 3:47 pm
ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer stated in a press release, “It’s crucial that the government’s surveillance activities be subject to constitutional limits, but the administration’s argument would effectively insulate the most intrusive surveillance programs from judicial review. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 1:57 pm
But as sophisticated government surveillance methods are turned toward the general public, I wouldn't be surprised to see demand for such devices expand beyond the criminal class. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:57 am
The government has to show probable cause that "(A) the target of the electronic surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power . . . and (B) each of the facilities or places at which the electronic surveillance is directed is being used, or is about to be used, by a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 5:47 pm
They will also likely give retroactive amnesty to telecom companies that agreed to illegal and sweeping surveillance requests from the same government agencies that dole out fat secret contracts to the very same telecom companies. [read post]
22 Jun 2008, 7:38 am
There have been, essentially, three Administration approaches to modernizing electronic surveillance - one directed at each branch of the federal government. [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 1:28 pm
Duggan (1984) held that the original Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could constitutionally be applied to conduct surveillance on operatives from the Irish Republican Army who sought to export violence from the U.S. to Northern Ireland. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 8:47 am
Millions of people who have nothing in particular to hide may also choose to use privacy tools just because they’re concerned about government surveillance of the Internet, or because they don’t like leaving a data trail around haphazardly. [read post]
12 May 2016, 4:53 am
The basis for reconciliation is a deeper understanding of mutual interest: IT firms cannot prosper in a world without security—the kind only government can provide—and the U.S. government in turn must accept a more law- and rule-based process for access to data and expertise that changes perceptions of corporate complicity in surveillance. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 8:26 pm
A public debate on state surveillance in Canada may yet materialize this fall. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 5:49 pm
As for judicial oversight, the court that approves warrants under Section 702—known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court—has rebuked the NSA in multiple opinions. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 9:54 am
See also our report on the Surveillance-Industrial Complex.) [read post]
15 Oct 2012, 3:58 pm
The Supreme Court’s refusal to review Hepting may not be the end of the EFF’s warpath against government surveillance. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 8:56 pm
Surveillance mandates in other countries have typically come with government support. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 3:37 pm
Jon Eisenberg, an attorney for the al-Haramain lawyers - Wendell Belew and Asim Gafoor, urged Walker to order the government to disclose whether the alleged surveillance “was authorized by a warrant. [read post]
