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27 Dec 2013, 10:41 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“We are extremely disappointed with this decision, which misinterprets the relevant statutes, understates the privacy implications of the government’s surveillance and misapplies a narrow and outdated precedent to read away core constitutional protections,” said Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director. [read post]
4 Aug 2015, 3:10 pm by Andrew Crocker
The road to get here has been long and tortuous, and the government used every procedural trick it could think of to prevent the courts from considering whether the Constitution allows this mass surveillance. [read post]
22 May 2015, 7:35 am by Rahul Bhagnari
But the decision has already shaken things up, and it could change the government’s surveillance practices quite dramatically. [read post]
18 May 2012, 10:08 am by Brock Meeks
Meeks Security & Surveillance More Issues in Security & Surveillance The nation's cybersecurity 'czar' Howard Schmidt is leaving office and riding his Harley into the setting sun… literally. [read post]
1 Jul 2013, 7:12 am by Jonathan Witmer-Rich
Covert government surveillance is all the rage these days, but most of the discussion focuses on high-tech surveillance that involves packet switching and $2 billion NSA data centers in the Utah desert. [read post]
5 Apr 2019, 9:00 am
” The trouble with placing law enforcement in schools is not the lack of clearly defined policies to govern their role. [read post]
15 May 2020, 8:50 am by Cassandra Maas
 This power, which expired in March, was granted to the government under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 6:19 pm by Tara Hofbauer
Clapper declassified the fact that the government filed an application with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to extend the National Security Agency’s telephony metadata collection program by ninety days. [read post]
16 May 2006, 10:06 pm
Last Saturday, the United States government filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit under the "state secrets" privilege. [read post]
18 Jul 2020, 5:45 pm by Muskan Yadav
It provides for warrantless detention of suspects for up to 24 days, surveillance for up to 90 days and punishment for an offense as severe as lifetime imprisonment without parole. [read post]
7 Jul 2013, 7:00 am by Raffaela Wakeman
A few recent examples include Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders that technology firms like Google and Facebook turn over their users’ data to the National Security Agency for intelligence collection, an investigation into the government contractor who performed Edward Snowden’s background check, and the proposed acquisition by Chinese company Shuanghui International of American pork producer Smithfield Foods. [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 3:02 am by Walter Olson
“Doctors as Data Entry Clerks for the Government Health Surveillance System” [Jeffrey Singer, Cato] “Judge Orders Spine Surgeon to Pay Discovery Fees Over Funding Model” [Greg Land, Daily Report Online (Atlanta); defense lawyer says case “throws a harsh light on the interaction between personal injury lawyers, healthcare providers and litigation funders”] What if feds’ enforcement policies on truthful off-label pharmaceutical promotion… [read post]
1 May 2019, 7:50 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
“Today, consistent with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), as amended (codified in 50 U.S.C. [read post]
9 Apr 2023, 6:19 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
In 2017, the city of Moscow announced the launch of one of the world’s largest facial recognition video surveillance networks. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 9:13 am by Daniel J. Weitzner
What kinds of surveillance powers should we grant to our governments that preserve our democratic values in a globally competitive environment? [read post]
10 Sep 2013, 10:53 am by Dave Maass
"Applied on a massive scale, government surveillance becomes a form of oppression," the Guild's Executive Director Heidi Boghosian said. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 3:23 pm by Trevor Timm
Obama, undermines the government’s assertions that its bulk surveillance program, which collects virtually every phone record in the United States, is legal. [read post]
2 Aug 2013, 7:04 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Friendly telcos, who were once a one-stop-shop for surveillance, can no longer meet the needs of our government. [read post]
24 Oct 2017, 5:36 pm by davidruiz
It improves judicial oversight of the government’s surveillance regime. [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 3:16 pm by Kimberly Carlson
  However, when former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, Edward Snowden, disclosed the purported mass surveillance capabilities of the NSA and the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), it left civil society wondering how these two governments could possibly participate—and be leaders—in the FOC conference. [read post]