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7 Sep 2021, 6:30 am by Robert Kraft
The New York Times says Americans “get millions of illegal robocalls every month, despite attempts by the telecommunications industry and government agencies to stop them,” but the Federal Communications Commission on June 30 began using a technology called Stir/Shaken, which “aims to verify calls as they move through networks to recipients. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 5:17 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
New York Times: “In a rare public accounting of its mass surveillance program, the United States Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations. [read post]
17 Nov 2021, 3:43 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Only 59% of Americans are fully vaccinated according to the CDC. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 7:08 am
Kerry(D-MA) and Lieberman(I-CT), co-authors of “The American Power Act,” released the Environmental Protection Agency’s analysis of the legislation. [read post]
4 Mar 2019, 10:47 am by Barbara S. Mishkin
The Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on March 6, 2019 entitled “Protecting Student Borrowers: Loan Servicing Oversight. [read post]
17 Jan 2009, 3:30 pm
In Broward County, Florida, an advertising agency handles the sale of ad space on county buses. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 10:03 am by Taylor Gillan
[JURIST] The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) [official website], an independent agency created by Congress to protect American privacy under anti-terrorism laws, issued a report on Thursday calling the NSA's [official website] metadata program illegal and saying that it should be ended. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 2:25 am
ACLU Files Lawsuit on Border Laptop Searches"The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit demanding that U.S. [read post]
Two former high-ranking CIA officials will be compelled to answer questions under oath about the agency’s brutal interrogations of terrorism suspects, a federal judge ruled Tuesday as part of a lawsuit brought against former CIA contractors by the American Civil Liberties Union. [read post]
19 May 2022, 10:00 pm
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released guidance on May 12 addressing the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to employer use of algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) during the hiring process. [read post]
11 May 2008, 4:17 am
According to Bloomberg.com, the Department of Justice is investigating whether UBSank helped clients evade American taxes. [read post]
7 Jun 2015, 12:05 am by Paul Caron
Fox News op-ed: More IRS Outrage: Agency Used 'Hundreds of Lawyers' to Hide Information from Congress, by Jay Sekulow: It’s been a very bad week for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – which translates into a very bad week for the American people. ... [read post]
19 Apr 2011, 11:44 am by Sandhya Bathija
Americans United got some good news yesterday in a “faith-based” funding case that began back in 2000. [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 11:14 am by Bradley McAllister
The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website], named the National Security Agency (NSA),... [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 8:20 am by Matthew Waxman
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Governing Body this week approved Recommended Guidelines for the Use of Unmanned Aircraft (downloadable here) by American law enforcement agencies. [read post]
26 Sep 2013, 9:17 pm by Patent Docs
Acting Director Teresa Stanek Rea (at right) sent the following memo to USPTO employees regarding the possibility that the government will be shut down if Congress fails to agree to a continuing resolution to fund government agencies for the rest of this year: Dear Colleagues, As you know, the Obama administration is working diligently with Congress to try to ensure that the federal government remains open and continues to do its work on behalf of the American people. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 6:56 pm
PROTECTING AHMADINEJAD -- a novel angle: Here's a weird scenario: presumably, the American security agents have to liaise with their Iranian counterparts, most of whom are probably connected in some way or another with the Iranian central intelligence and security agency. [read post]
9 Jul 2007, 12:12 pm
The arrests come several months after the Iranian government first accused four Iranian-Americans [JURIST news archive] of belonging to a US-organized spy network. [read post]