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18 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Jon May
It is a fundamental protection of our civil liberty. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 12:01 am by Josh Richman
Instead, it creates civil liability for the apps and website platforms that host advertisements and other information. [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 5:50 am by Aryeh Neier
What became Derian’s passion for international human rights matched what had been the passion she brought to the civil rights cause in the United States, accompanied by bureaucratic dexterity and political skill that skeptics hadn’t expected in a housewife from Mississippi. [read post]
11 Apr 2023, 5:55 am by Michael Dreeben
That both the United States and Israel are wrestling with these fundamental questions makes this an opportune time to revisit them. [read post]
8 Apr 2023, 7:09 pm
  Pix Credit here The right to vote, to have your vote counted, is the threshold of democracy and liberty everywhere in the world. [read post]
6 Apr 2023, 5:55 am by Debra Perlin
Several countries that rank higher than the United States in political rights and civil liberties, including France, Italy, Israel, the Philippines, South Africa, and South Korea have all charged, and in many cases convicted, former presidents and prime ministers for crimes committed while they were in office. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 2:22 am by INFORRM
Privacy advocates opposed to the legislation said the technology could be used to erode civil liberties and allows the government to deploy the technology on an “experimental basis” at large cultural events through the end of 2024, the Associated Press reports. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 1:05 pm by Steve Gottlieb
It’s too simple to say that he came to Albany as general counsel of New York State United Teachers. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 12:03 pm by Avery Schmitz
  The United States has fundamental national security and foreign policy interests in (1) ensuring that technology is developed, deployed, and governed in accordance with universal human rights; the rule of law; and appropriate legal authorization, safeguards, and oversight, such that it supports, and does not undermine, democracy, civil rights and civil liberties, and public safety; and (2) mitigating, to the greatest extent… [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 7:52 am by Amy Howe
The question of a tester’s legal right to sue, known as “standing,” comes to the court in a case filed by Deborah Laufer, who has brought 600 lawsuits against hotels around the United States. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 6:05 am by Joshua Russell
The European Union and the United States, the biggest two donors, objected to the legislation, as did prominent international NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. [read post]
27 Mar 2023, 1:25 am by INFORRM
Surveillance Civil rights groups, including Liberty and StopWatch, have published an open letter to the Manchester Mayor and Chief Constable of Greater Manchester asking them to investigate the use of gang surveillance in cases invoking the common law doctrine of joint enterprise. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Catherine Morris
Enforced disappearance also violates treaty rights, including multiple rights guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Canada acceded in 1976. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 9:51 am by George Croner
On the day it became law in 2008, the ACLU and other privacy and civil liberties organizations sued to have Section 702 declared unconstitutional. [read post]
8 Mar 2023, 4:59 am by Emma Snell
The documents revealed in response to an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union against the FBI show officials developed techniques that could help identify or track Americans without their awareness or consent. [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 5:16 am by Eugenia Lostri, Stephanie Pell
The role of regulation has been a constant source of tension between the public and private sectors, namely how to strike the right balance between mandates and incentives. [read post]
28 Feb 2023, 4:28 am by Emma Snell
However civil liberties advocates, as well as Trump-aligned Republicans distrustful of security agencies, have expressed opposition to the program. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 9:47 am by INFORRM
However, critics of the plan say that it will result in unnecessary data collection and intrusion on civil liberties. [read post]
27 Feb 2023, 5:16 am by Paul Rosenzweig
For individual complaints from qualifying countries, the intelligence community’s civil liberties and privacy officer will conduct an initial review. [read post]