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29 Dec 2013, 5:58 am by Jillian C. York
While Tunisia's hosting of the Freedom Online Coalition conference in June seemed like good news, the government has since created a new agency that seems to have the mandate to bring surveillance back to the country. [read post]
What this stopgap measure did was let the government perform mass surveillance and then keep the database it created even after the law was no longer used, having been replaced by the FAA. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 8:00 am by Adam Klein
  (“Credibly” would exclude authoritarian regimes, like Russia and China, where government surveillance is not constrained by independent institutions.) [read post]
24 Dec 2020, 10:07 am by Adam Schwartz
Throughout 2020, governments around the world deployed invasive surveillance technologies to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. [read post]
3 Oct 2017, 8:23 am by sophia
Our government should not single them out for invasive social media surveillance. [read post]
27 Jun 2013, 9:01 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Learn more about government surveillance and other civil liberties issues: Sign up for breaking news alerts, follow us on Twitter, and like us on Facebook. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 10:07 am by Mark Rumold
“We welcome the board’s first report on government surveillance practices," said EFF Legislative Analyst Mark Jaycox. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 6:20 am by Dave Maass
"The public has a fundamental right to know how the federal government is interpreting surveillance and privacy laws," EFF Senior Counsel David Sobel said. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 11:06 am by Kurt Opsahl and Nadia Kayyali
In essence, the government narrowly interpreted the causes of action in the Jewel complaint, excluding the Section 215 surveillance purportedly authorized by the FISC, and thereby narrowing the evidence it would preserve. [read post]
15 Jul 2013, 11:21 am by Jonathan Witmer-Rich
Jones) that “[a]wareness that the Government may be watching chills associational and expressive freedoms. [read post]
24 Aug 2021, 11:11 am by Daniel Kahn Gillmor
We have already seen all too often how governments misuse and abuse surveillance to target political opponents, disfavored groups, and protestors. [read post]
9 May 2016, 4:30 am by Zachary K. Goldman, Samuel Rascoff
It is almost universally true that governments afford greater protections against surveillance to their own citizens at home than to foreigners abroad. [read post]
3 Dec 2008, 7:57 pm
I refer, for example, to such issues as the use of torture, the creation of secret prisons, the secret detentions of American citizens, and the NSA surveillance program. [read post]
7 Nov 2015, 4:26 pm by INFORRM
Following months of uncertainty and a few weeks of intense speculation and spin, the UK government has published its draft Investigatory Powers bill, a piece of legislation incorporating sweeping surveillance powers frequently described and derided as a “snooper’s charter”. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
The Background of the Case and the Supreme Court’s Reasoning In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) to allow and to regulate certain electronic surveillance activities conducted by the federal government to gather foreign intelligence. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 11:00 am by Paul Rosenzweig
  As a consequence, those engaged in surveillance in cyberspace (whether governments or individuals) want both capabilities – to intercept/divert information and to decode it so that they can read its contents. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 10:21 am by Adam Schwartz
This salutary law, enacted in June 2016, ensures community control of whether county government will adopt spying tools, and if so, what privacy safeguards are needed. [read post]
8 Apr 2013, 7:00 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Let's hope, in that small-government bastion, proposals to expand the surveillance state won't go over quite as easily as in the Texas Senate. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 10:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See also recent columns at Wired touting the benefits, or at least relevant benevolence, of the 21st century consumer surveillance society.I spy with my little surveillance cameraCheck out examples of concealed surveillance devices from the Middle East and Guantanamo Bay, the latter of which was used to listen in on conversations between prisoners and their defense counsel. [read post]