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7 Feb 2003, 8:20 pm
[JURIST] The Center for Public Integrity released Friday a hitherto-confidential Department of Justice analysis of a potential Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 [PDF text] which would significantly extend domestic intelligence, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives granted to the government by the USA Patriot Act of 2001 while limiting public disclosure and judicial review. [read post]
5 Feb 2016, 8:00 am
[JURIST] Polish President Andrzej Duda [official profile] approved a new law on Thursday that grants the government [press release, in Polish] greater access to digital data and broader use of surveillance for law enforcement. [read post]
20 May 2010, 3:00 am
“The Law Society welcomed the new coalition government’s pledge to seek a better balance between state surveillance and privacy this week, while legal aid lawyers said they hoped Kenneth Clarke’s appointment as justice secretary will spell good news for access to justice. [read post]
9 Apr 2015, 3:40 am
The Baltimore Police Department has an agreement with the U.S. government to withhold certain information about secretive cellphone surveillance technology from the public and even the courts, according to a confidential agreement obtained by The Associated Press. [read post]
3 Mar 2008, 1:11 pm
More than a dozen states are at loggerheads with the federal government over the warrantless wiretapping program. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 6:25 am
This distracts us from real-world solutions to the problems of online hate speech, disinformation and surveillance capitalism. [read post]
20 Feb 2006, 12:24 am
[JURIST] Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) [official website] said Sunday that existing legislation governing domestic surveillance [JURIST news archive] does not need to be rewritten or updated. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 2:04 am
The department used investigators in clandestine surveillance operations to verify claims from miners who say they have suffered illnesses from working down the pits. [read post]
5 Jul 2014, 8:39 am
[JURIST] The German government summoned the US ambassador John B. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 10:38 am
"Justice to Release Spy Program Details": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday he will turn over secret documents detailing the government's domestic spying program, ending a two-week standoff with the Senate Judiciary Committee over surveillance targeting terror suspects. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 5:05 pm
The issue was examined in a new paper, "The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance", by Paul Ohm, a former Justice Department official who now is a professor of law at the University of Colorado.Read the article: The New York Times [read post]
19 Sep 2008, 4:30 pm
[JURIST] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [advocacy website] on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF; EFF press release] seeking injunctive, declaratory and equitable relief from the National Security Agency (NSA) [agency website] warrantless surveillance program [JURIST news archive], which gave government agencies access to over 300 terabytes of data concerning [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 8:05 pm
Lest you think there's nothing at stake when people decide how much leeway to give the government to search, question and monitor, here's Digby, Mission Creeps — The New Surveillance State, with pointers to two articles which when read together give you a good idea of the rather discouraging state of play: Glenn Greenwald, The Obama administration's war on privacy and a little case study, Daniel Rubin, An infuriating search at Philadelphia International… [read post]
31 Dec 2011, 8:20 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Thursday unanimously ruled [opinion, PDF] that a law granting immunity from civil suits for telecommunications companies that assist government intelligence agencies is constitutional. [read post]
15 Feb 2022, 5:07 pm
In past roles, he led a startup unmanned aircraft manufacturing company and consulted for various commercial and government clients. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 2:23 pm
"Court Backs Warrantless Searches Abroad": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "The authorities may lawfully conduct searches and electronic surveillance against United States citizens in foreign countries without a warrant, a federal appeals court panel said on Monday, bolstering the government's power to investigate terrorism by ruling that a key constitutional protection afforded to Americans does not apply overseas. [read post]
1 Aug 2013, 2:02 pm
linkThe more i learn, the more incorrect, flawed, distorted, and unjust seems the method of making decisions, governing, and settling things by the process of "democracy!" [read post]
10 Oct 2007, 6:32 am
Bush Wednesday called for Congress to make permanent [press release] the expansion of surveillance powers granted in August's Protect America Act [S 1927 materials], adding that he would not sign any eavesdropping bill that does not grant retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies facing lawsuits related to government eavesdropping that was conducted [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 5:27 am
"Dismissal of Lawsuit Against Warrantless Wiretaps Sought": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "A lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program should be thrown out because the government is now conducting the wiretaps under the authority of a secret intelligence court, according to court papers filed by the Justice Department yesterday. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 4:45 pm
[JURIST] A judge on the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [JURIST news archive] (FISA) court said in an order [PDF text] released Friday that the court would consider [ACLU press release] what she called an "unprecedented" ACLU motion [PDF text; JURIST report] to release to the public hitherto-classified rulings on the extent of the US government's wiretapping authority. [read post]
