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7 Dec 2009, 9:00 pm by Josh Camson
The EFF is trying to get the federal government to "disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance" according to their press release. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 9:00 pm
The EFF is trying to get the federal government to "disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance" according to their press release. [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 4:03 pm by INFORRM
A delegation from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) arrived in the UK this week to investigate “The British Government’s actions relating to newspaper regulation and the handling of state surveillance. [read post]
21 Mar 2013, 1:53 pm by Guest Blogger
If civic activism is any indication, it seems to be more of an anathema for the government to shutdown Reddit for allegedly supporting internet piracy then it is for the government to engage in systematic surveillance of the people it governs. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 4:24 pm by Cindy Cohn
Government lawyers suggested that "targeting" and "minimization" procedures erase the harm that surveillance causes to Fourth Amendment principles, though we’ve explained why those procedures impose inadequate limits and allow unconstitutional spying to continue. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 5:36 am by Benjamin Wittes
Over at Vox an admiring article appears on a challenge that Glenn Greenwald is giving to people who think they have nothing to hide: The most common defense for the massive expansion of government surveillance programs since 2001 is that they only negatively affect people who have something to hide. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 6:32 pm by shahid
Most recently, FISA was amended in 2009 to legalize a series of mass surveillance programs begun under the Bush administration in direct violation of the governing statue at the time, as well as constitutional limits. [read post]
The chart attempts to compile all of the documents released by the newspapers and the government, with the exception of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders. [read post]
20 Oct 2013, 5:25 am by Jon Gelman
Today's post was shared by CIDRAP and comes from www.cidrap.umn.edu Congressional agreement on a funding bill that reopened government yesterday got the gears turning again with several key public health tasks, such as flu surveillance, science communication, and lab testing. [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 1:49 pm by Cody M. Poplin
The Recommendations Assessment Report follows up on the 22 recommendations made by the board in its 2014 reports on the government's Section 215 and Section 702 surveillance programs. [read post]
7 Jun 2017, 5:27 am by Dan Ernst
  The hardline stances on immigration emanating from the new presidential administration-from Executive Orders aimed at suspending migration from designated majority-Muslim countries to the proposal to "build a wall" on the US-Mexico border-represent to many a daunting expression of how the federal government plans on exercising its power to conduct immigrant surveillance, detention, and deportation.In this environment, how the United States came to be a… [read post]
2 May 2013, 2:56 pm by Jay Stanley
I haven’t seen Chertoff say anything about the threat of pervasive government surveillance, which would make him a kind of anti-libertarian on privacy—in favor of restricting corporations, but not the government. [read post]
2 Aug 2013, 8:25 am by Andres
More and more people are looking at the level of surveillance, and they are beginning to wonder how it is possible for one government organisation to have such access to information. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 2:20 pm by Danny O'Brien and Eva Galperin
If the UK government wants its surveillance rules to stand the test of time, it needs to build them on a firm foundation of clarity, necessity, and proportionality. [read post]
19 Mar 2015, 5:28 pm by Andrew Crocker and Cindy Cohn
Last week, the ACLU filed a welcome additional challenge to the NSA’s warrantless Internet backbone surveillance (aka “Upstream” surveillance) on behalf of Wikimedia and a number of other media and human rights organizations. [read post]
31 Dec 2009, 5:26 am by Ray Mullman
Lawyers and Settlements had an article about the lawsuit filed in a case where a surveillance camera captured images of nursing home abuse in what has been deemed the second-worst elder care facility in the nation, according to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). [read post]
17 Aug 2011, 5:37 am by David Canton
There has been a lot written lately about the disturbing trend towards becoming a surveillance society. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 9:08 pm
The Senate is debating a bill Wednesday that would dismiss lawsuits against telecoms that helped the government warrantlessly spy on Americans and drastically expand blanket surveillance operations based in telecom facilities inside the United States. [read post]