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13 Aug 2013, 6:50 am
American companies have much to lose from these government surveillance programs. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 2:47 pm
Internet activists say governments ranging from Egypt to Pakistan have been trying to control the Internet through tactics like filtering and blocking of content and surveillance, making the lives of users and rights campaigners difficult. [read post]
4 Oct 2006, 9:35 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] ruled [text, PDF] Wednesday that the US government can continue to operate its domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive; US DOJ fact sheet, PDF] pending appeal of US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's August 17 ruling [PDF text; JURIST report] that the government's program is unconstitutional. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 6:29 am
The report asserts that the Eritrean government, led by President Isaias Afwerki [BBC profile], has imposed a culture of fear through the restriction of many essential freedoms, including maintaining constant surveillance of citizens, placing heavy... [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 5:26 pm
And a new report finds significant problems with applications for FISA surveillance. [read post]
25 Jul 2007, 9:19 am
[JURIST] A federal judge Tuesday refused to dismiss [order, PDF] lawsuits brought by several states seeking more information from the federal government about the administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 8:13 pm
[JURIST] Attorneys for the US government and for plaintiffs asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation [official website] Thursday to consolidate more than 20 cases involving telephone companies' roles in the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
6 Feb 2003, 8:08 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday renewed its warnings [ACLU government surveillance backgrounder] about the US government's Total Information Awareness cybersecurity initiative. [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 3:10 pm
The ACLU announces: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) announced today that it will not make public orders and legal papers pertaining to the scope of the government's authority to engage in the secret wiretapping of Americans. [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 11:44 am
"The Court That May Not Be Heard": The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the special court that reviews government requests for warrants to spy on suspected foreign agents in the United States, seems to have forgotten that its job is to ensure that the government is accountable for following the law -- not to help the Bush administration keep its secrets. [read post]
11 Jun 2013, 9:34 am
I could not disagree more with Senator Rand Paul on matters such as government support for medical care for the poor but on government electronic surveillance, he is spot on: Rand Paul, Big Brother Actually Is Watching Us, Monitoring hundreds of millions of phone records is an extraordinary invasion of privacy Wall Street Journal (June 2013). [read post]
12 Oct 2004, 6:20 am
The Howard government had [read post]
28 Feb 2006, 7:02 am
[JURIST] The New York Times [media website] sued the US Department of Defense [official website] Monday over the government's failure to release requested documents regarding the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 6:33 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] announced [press release] on Monday that it has filed a complaint against the UK government over concerns that the country's intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) [official website] unlawfully accessed AI's communications. [read post]
3 Oct 2006, 3:43 am
[JURIST] The US and UK governments have been discussing the release of nine British residents [JURIST report] currently being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], but the British government has so far refused to accept the men, saying that US demands for continued surveillance of the prisoners after their hand-over are unnecessary and unworkable, the Guardian [read post]
10 May 2013, 11:38 am
to discuss this and other ACLU revelations regarding government surveillances practices. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 3:45 pm
Following the recent data breaches at Sony and the attacks at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, certain politicians have wasted no time calling for increased government surveillance, broader anti-hacking statutes (with stiffer penalties), and, in the case of British Prime Minister David Cameron, a call to limit non-government use of encryption technologies. [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 12:32 pm
Wednesday Hearing On EFF Demand to Disclose Export Applications for Surveillance Technology Stanford, California—On Wednesday, October 21, at 12:45 pm, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal appeals court to order the U.S. government to disclose information about its role in facilitating exports of American-made surveillance tools to foreign nations. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 2:27 pm
Thus, the law must require high standards for government access. [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 3:19 pm
Kidane, who is suing the Ethiopian government for covertly installing spyware on his computer in the United States, surveilling his Skype conversations and Google searches), detailed descriptions and screenshots of internal Ethiopian Telecommunications wiretapping software, and testimony from Ethiopia’s own whistleblowers from within their security service, the report paints a picture of a regime just beginning to flex its digital surveillance muscles. [read post]
