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28 Mar 2008, 9:26 pm
Originally Posted by Paul Karlsgodt at 3/13/2008 12:42 PM and filed under Class Action News A key issue in the well-publicized fight between President Bush and leaders in the House of Representatives over the proposed Bill to extend the federal government’s terrorism surveilance authority is the inclusion of provisions giving retroactive immunity. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 7:00 am
High-profile corporations are purportedly providing the federal government with tools which aid in the surveillance, detention and deportation of undocumented migrants. [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]
14 Mar 2008, 12:30 pm
"House Passes New Surveillance Bill": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "The House on Friday narrowly approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 1:51 pm
Blai [ACLU materials] have standing to sue the US government over the constitutionality of a federal eavesdropping law, reinstating their lawsuit. [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]
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]
16 Dec 2013, 12:51 pm
Judge Richard Leon ruled in a lawsuit [JURIST report] brought by activist attorney and former government prosecutor Larry Klayman. [read post]
20 Mar 2006, 1:31 am
[JURIST] In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks [JURIST news archive], US government lawyers discussed ways to search the homes and businesses of suspected terrorists without court approval at the same time they debated warrantless electronic surveillance [JURIST news archive], according to a report in the current issue of US News & World Report. [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]
10 Jan 2017, 10:36 am
Among other provisions, the Investigatory Powers Act [official website] allows the government to record the Internet history of every UK citizen for up to a year. [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]
14 Mar 2008, 7:11 am
By 213-197 [roll call] House Democrats pushed through new surveillance regulations [HR 3773 text as amended; summary] that would extend government power to eavesdrop on individuals within the [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 5:28 pm
ABOVE: Amir Ardebili captured on surveillance video in Tbilsi, Georgia Amir Hossein Ardebili, an Iranian national, engaged in extensive negotiations from Iran and apparently on behalf of the Iranian government to export defense items from the United States to Iran. [read post]
16 Oct 2011, 10:45 am
The public condemnation was swift and strong, renewing a national debate into how far the government can intrude into digital privacy. [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 Nov 2014, 6:46 am
The government has responded to this argument that one does... [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 11:46 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] asked a federal district judge Thursday to block New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, Missouri, and Connecticut from investigating potential violations of state consumer privacy laws in the controversial warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive], arguing that the state secrets privilege doctrine bars the state governments [read post]
Matt Taibbi was asked “why doesn’t he pay much attention to the sins (or threats) from “the right”?”
30 Mar 2024, 6:00 pm
From digital surveillance to censorship to making Intel and enforcement agencies central players in domestic governance ... they are thinking on a much bigger and more dangerous scale than Republicans. [read post]
27 Feb 2006, 8:59 am
[JURIST] US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website] has begun circulating a draft version of a bill that would require the federal government to obtain permission before conducting domestic surveillance [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
