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25 Feb 2009, 3:44 am
” But when the Orwellian UK government then mandates â€â [read post]
19 May 2011, 3:13 pm
The brief doesn’t really have much to do with GPS surveillance, but it’s interesting that it advocates a rejection of privacy as a Fourth Amendment guide and a return to property as a guide — including back to the common law “mere evidence” rule, by which the government cannot get a warrant to obtain mere evidence. [read post]
26 Dec 2020, 9:44 am
A coalition of human rights groups Wednesday joined WhatsApp’s lawsuit against Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group and accused the company of selling Pegasus surveillance software to government agencies to target human rights activists under the guise of terrorism laws. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 5:45 am
“Facial surveillance system” is defined as any computer software or application that performs face surveillance. [read post]
3 Jul 2013, 7:19 am
Second, the government has set a dismally low bar for concluding that a potential surveillance target is, in fact, a foreigner located abroad. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 7:53 am
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11 Jun 2013, 12:25 pm
When the government is claiming such chillingly expansive surveillance powers, it's all hands on deck. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 7:36 pm
Factors important to consider in analyzing whether this type of surveillance intrudes upon a person’s reasonable privacy interest include the area surveilled, the length of time the area is surveilled and whether the equipment used for surveillance is of the type generally available to the public (see Kyllo v. [read post]
14 Jun 2013, 9:16 am
Evidence comes to light regarding the scope of the government’s ability to surveil its citizens, there is a brief period of public outcry, and then, a year or two later, it all happens again. [read post]
30 May 2014, 11:19 am
But we are asking for a modest remedy: a ruling that we can assume the destroyed records would show that our plaintiffs were in fact surveilled by the government. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 12:21 pm
The White House is pushing back against critics who say the scope of the recent expansion of government spy powers does much more than close the so-called "surveillance gap" -- and grants the government extraordinary powers with little meaningful oversight. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 3:28 pm
The Senate Judiciary Committee has previously sought access at least to the Jan. 10 orders, but so far has been unable to obtain them for use in investigating how much authority the government now has to conduct surveillance. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 4:00 am
As discussed in an ACLU press release on the decision:The judge ... called for alterations that would:Clarify the authority of an individual outside the NYPD (a civilian representative) to ensure the NYPD’s compliance with the “Handschu Guidelines” — which govern NYPD surveillance of political and religious activity — even beyond the terms of the reforms proposed by the settlement.Require that the civilian representative established by the… [read post]
30 May 2017, 6:30 am
The conference will bring together senior leaders from government, academia, and civil society to discuss issues central to the ongoing congressional debate over Section 702 renewal. [read post]
29 Jun 2022, 1:49 pm
Forty-four states along with the federal government, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands have laws permitting courts to issue orders allowing for the surveillance of wire, oral, or electronic communication. [read post]
23 Aug 2013, 12:00 am
They must be inaccessible to the government unless it can prove to a neutral judge that surveillance is warranted, which means more than ‘relevance’ to an investigation and more than mere curiosity. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 2:07 pm
What started out as a secret court that assessed government requests to spy on specific people, groups, or facilities turned into a secret kangaroo court that approved mass surveillance programs that sweep up the communications of millions of Americans, without any reason to suspect that 99.9% of them are connected in any way to any wrongdoing. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 1:18 pm
Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technologically complicated government surveillance program operating under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act In the lead up to this report, I had identified eight basic but important questions the public needs to know about section 702 surveillance. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 7:14 am
-- denying plaintiff’s motions to find FBI in contempt for violating court’s previous orders, but instructing FBI to increase its rate of document production to 1000 pages per month and to search an electronic surveillance database in response to plaintiff’s request for records pertaining to government surveillance of Muslim Americans in Chicago area in the 1990s James Madison Proj. v. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 7:52 pm
Decision makers in the national surveillance state have capitalized on the amorphousness of "relevance" to authorize government collection of vast amounts of data. [read post]
