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15 Jan 2006, 4:11 am
[JURIST] The government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair will in a few weeks lift a longstanding ban on wiretapping the phones of members of parliament as part of a push to expand the surveillance powers of Britain's MI5 [official website] security service in the wake of the July 2005 London bombings [JURIST report], according to the Independent on Sunday newspaper. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 10:19 am by Alison Sacriponte
The government has dismissed these concerns and clarified that the measures being proposed are not aimed at general surveillance,... [read post]
6 May 2012, 7:46 am by Doug Isenberg
The FBI is asking Internet companies not to oppose a controversial proposal that would require firms, including Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, to build in backdoors for government surveillance. [read post]
30 Oct 2011, 5:24 am by Doug Isenberg
Research In Motion Ltd. has set up a facility in Mumbai to help the Indian government carry out lawful surveillance of its BlackBerry services, according to people familiar with the matter, but the move hasn’t fully satisfied India’s appetite for access to messages on the popular smartphones. [read post]
10 Sep 2007, 8:04 am
Speaking at a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs [read post]
27 May 2008, 8:14 pm
It’s this kind of mindless sleepwalking into a  surveillance  society that reminds me of Orwells 1984. [read post]
15 Jun 2013, 6:19 pm
According to the "Tuned In" column in the June 24, 2013 issue of Time, U.S. popular culture has been predicting government surveillance of U.S. citizens for a while now.Think shows like Chuck and Person of Interest, and next season's new series Intelligence. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 3:30 pm by Jen Patja Howell
They talked about what Wuhan looks like these days, what quarantine means in China, and how close the surveillance is. [read post]
1 Dec 2007, 6:11 am
That Act currently allows the US government to eavesdrop inside of the US without court [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 2:21 pm
The government is seeking a $1B contract for the database, and it is not limited to criminals. [read post]
26 Jul 2006, 11:37 am
[JURIST] CIA Director Michael Hayden on Wednesday spoke against requiring the US government to show probable cause to obtain warrants to wiretap domestic conversations thought to involve al-Qaeda affiliates during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing [committee materials] on adapting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text] to the threat of terrorism. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 11:12 am
[JURIST] US District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker issued an order [PDF] Tuesday imposing a limited stay on discovery in a class action lawsuit [EFF case backgrounder; JURIST report] challenging the legality of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive], despite the government's request [PDF text] to stay discovery pending the outcome of an appeal to the US [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]
30 Sep 2015, 9:46 pm by Danny O'Brien
  Now France's government is about the make the same error as US practice with its new "Surveillance des communications électroniques internationales" bill, currently being rushed through the French Parliament. [read post]
11 Jul 2024, 2:00 am by ACLU
Additionally, when it comes to surveilling Americans, there is already a history of law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ abuse of surveillance programs that give the government the right to collect private information from American citizens. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 2:22 am by Michael DelSignore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to Hear Police Surveillance Case  Under the Fourth Amendment and the United States Supreme Court precedent, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy from government intrusion that all Americans enjoy. [read post]
6 May 2012, 7:12 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Adler) Last month, Virginia enacted a law forbidding state officers, including police, from helping the federal government investigate, surveil, or detain terrorist suspects who are U.S. citizens. [read post]
24 Jun 2020, 8:04 am by Jay Stanley
The planes are typically registered to front companies to hide their identities as government planes. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 9:48 am by David Greene
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows courts to examine secret evidence that is necessary to determine whether surveillance conducted by the government was done legally. [read post]