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3 Oct 2007, 8:57 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] filed a certiorari petition [PDF text] Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court [official website] to hear a challenge of the government's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] that was rejected [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals [official website] in July. [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 6:30 am
" The commission urged European governments to enact [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 8:22 am
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on counterterrorism Ben Emmerson [official profile] on Monday stated that he plans to launch an investigation [Guardian op-ed] into the surveillance activities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) [official websites]. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 12:36 pm
The government has released the second annual Report of the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. [read post]
13 Feb 2014, 9:12 am
The class action complaint seeks a declaration that the Mass Association Tracking Program (MATP) violates the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution [text], an injunction forbidding the government from continuing the program and an order... [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 2:55 pm
Bush Wednesday urged [speech text; WH fact sheet] Congress to make permanent a law broadening the government's ability to conduct warrantless surveillance of terror suspects abroad, echoing recent statements by intelligence officials. [read post]
28 Sep 2006, 3:29 pm
[JURIST] US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor on Thursday rejected the Bush Administration's proposal to continue its domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive; US DOJ fact sheet, PDF] while her August 17 decision [opinion, PDF] finding the program unconstitutional and ordering its shutdown is being appealed, but did allow the program to continue for one more week to allow the government [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 Oct 2007, 12:05 pm
"Immunity push for telecom firms might not kill wiretap suits": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "The Bush administration's proposal to protect telecommunications companies from lawsuits for aiding the government's electronic surveillance program won't necessarily scuttle cases pending in San Francisco against the companies, a lawyer for AT&T customers said Friday. [read post]
8 Feb 2006, 5:42 am
Heather Wilson [official website] (R-NM), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence [official website] has called for a complete review of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text], which governs the monitoring of phone calls within the United States for national security reasons, so that proper congressional oversight may be [read post]
25 Sep 2005, 4:10 pm
[JURIST] Acting in the aftermath of the London bombings [JURIST news archive], the French government [official website] has finalized a new draft anti-terror law that would bolster the country's video, telephone and Internet surveillance as well as tighten travel controls into "countries at risk". [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 9:15 pm
What if it were a crime to walk down city streets taking roundabout paths so as not to be filmed by official surveillance cameras? [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]
27 Feb 2008, 9:05 am
Government surveillance of personal computers would violate the individual right to privacy, Germany's highest court found, in a ruling that German investigators say will restrict their ability to pursue terrorists. [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 3:46 pm
Whether it’s corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. [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]
17 Jul 2013, 8:00 pm
In Google, others call on NSA for more transparency AllThingsD.com writes:Sixty-three tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter, have come together to call on the US government to bring more transparency to surveillance. [read post]
4 May 2008, 4:22 am
By preëmptively freezing a suspect's assets, "the government does not have to watch these dollars [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 8:42 am
AI believes this that this new law has too broad a definition of terrorism, increases the surveillance powers of the government and ultimately could endanger human... [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 6:03 am
[JURIST] The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [court rules, PDF; official backgrounder] restricted the government's monitoring of e-mail and telephone conversations of suspected terrorists in foreign countries in a ruling publicly disclosed Thursday. [read post]
