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22 Nov 2016, 12:11 pm by Kate Tummarello
Obama should also release information about national security- and civil liberties-related Inspector General reports, information about the scope of surveillance of U.S. persons under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and guidance on how the government considers constitutional concerns surrounding parallel construction or the law enforcement practice of finding alternative evidence to bring a case that was built on inadmissible information gathered… [read post]
11 Sep 2019, 6:42 am by Rebecca Jeschke
“The federal government’s push to conduct persistent surveillance along the border has also accelerated adoption of advanced technology by police and sheriff departments in border town communities,” EFF Senior Investigative Researcher and Visiting Reynolds Professor of Media Technology Dave Maass says. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 2:08 pm by Alex Vitrak
Criminal defendants have the right to know when the government’s evidence is derived from the NSA’s interception of their communications, so that they can test the lawfulness of that surveillance. [read post]
This holding suggested that the government may use technology to monitor a suspect’s movements in public without a warrant, when that surveillance could be achieved through regular visual surveillance by anyone, not just the police. [read post]
6 Aug 2007, 12:43 pm
The plaintiffs say the documents prove they were spied on without warrants and are seeking to have the government's secret surveillance program declared illegal. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 7:16 am by William Carleton
@evgenymorozov has a piece in the NYTimes this morning in which he ties trends in domestic surveillance to the use of technology by repressive governments to track their populations. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 8:40 am
Congress passed what can now be considered a bipartisan bill to expand the rights of telecommunication groups aiding the government with surveillance efforts. [read post]
To what extent is that surveillance actually being used by the government to enforce societal laws, rules, regulations, and norms? [read post]
10 Sep 2021, 9:47 am by Cindy Cohn
  The public centerpiece of our effort to increase government surveillance in response to the attacks was the passage of the Patriot Act, which will have its own 20th anniversary on October 26. [read post]
4 Dec 2018, 7:15 pm by Jen Patja Howell
’s GCHQ discussed recent developments in the laws and policy governing encryption and surveillance around the world. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 12:14 pm by andrew
As a result, our brief argues the Second Circuit should find that: the procedures that governed the surveillance of Mr. [read post]
19 Feb 2014, 4:53 pm by Rainey Reitman
Of course, the news that the U.S. government is actively trying to undermine Wikileaks and surveil its supporters is not new. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 12:30 pm
” It is also critical to recall how the government had (secretly) justified this surveillance to itself and to the thousands of agents, bureaucrats, and other government officials who either carried it out or abided it: by asserting that it was absolutely necessary to the survival of the nation. [read post]
7 Apr 2020, 10:54 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
Assuming the Fourth Amendment does apply to the government surveillance, the Fourth Amendment requires that the activity be “reasonable. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 5:25 am
It was revealed yesterday that the FISA overhaul, previously referred to here, was necessited by the FISA Court holding the government's previous surveillance activities unconstitutional. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 11:07 am by Herb Lin
Many critics of government surveillance point to the miniscule fraction of requests denied by the FISC as proof that the court is a rubber stamp to government requests for surveillance. [read post]
31 Jul 2007, 2:43 pm
To me, the essential problem, and there are many others, but the essential problem with the proposed FISA amendments, is that it would hand to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales more power to obviate the need for court supervision of government surveillance. [read post]