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20 Dec 2016, 7:21 am by Rebecca Jeschke
“Our goal is to rally everyone who makes digital tools and services to this important cause: protect your technology and networks from censorship and government surveillance,” said EFF Activism Director Rainey Reitman. [read post]
22 Jun 2013, 10:59 am by Bart Torvik
A response came from "TheTrueHOOHA," Snowden's pen name: "NSA's new surveillance program. [read post]
30 Mar 2020, 11:38 am by Dave Maass
” To combat secrecy around cell-site simulators, the California legislature passed a law in 2015 that prohibits local government agencies from acquiring cell-site simulators without the local governing body approving a privacy and usage policy that “is consistent with respect for an individual’s privacy and civil liberties. [read post]
17 May 2024, 10:59 am by Brendan Gilligan
Moreover, as EFF explains in its brief, this electronic monitoring is not only invasive, but ineffective and (contrary to its portrayal as a detention alternative) an expansion of government surveillance. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 1:52 pm by By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
What 2008 law gives the NSA its authority to engage in dragnet surveillance? [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 9:04 am by Frank Pasquale
What we need to face up to is that pervasive surveillance, unifi ed into massive databases by powerful corporate and government actors, is an effort to fi nd out “what makes us tick” on a societal level. [read post]
3 Jan 2014, 11:22 am by Hanni Fakhoury
But a decision released on December 24th by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals looks at the issue from the point of view of businesses, providing a glimpse into how service providers and technology companies could challenge the government's unconstitutional surveillance. [read post]
9 Aug 2013, 3:59 pm by Trevor Timm
Prior to President Obama’s press conference on potential surveillance reform today, two important stories were published showing National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance has gone farther than government officials have admitted publicly. [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 6:15 am by Shahid Buttar
  But celebrations often overlook the federal government’s attempts to “neutralize” the movement. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 11:33 pm by Orin Kerr
Here’s the question: When privacy statutes require the government to obtain a court order before collecting records or conducting surveillance, is the constitutionality of the future execution of the order ripe for adjudication at the time of the application? [read post]
14 Jun 2013, 1:45 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
The ACLU filed a lawsuit this week challenging which agency's surveillance program that the government uses to spy on millions of ordinary Americans? [read post]
8 Mar 2024, 2:09 pm by Paige Collings
At the local, state, and federal level, people across the country are urging politicians to ban the government’s use of face surveillance because it is inherently invasive, discriminatory, and dangerous. [read post]
29 Jan 2019, 4:34 pm by India McKinney
Collection of Immigrants’ DNA EFF has long opposed dragnet biometric surveillance of immigrants. [read post]
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19 Nov 2015, 2:30 pm
This week, CIA Director John Brennan suggested, without any evidence, that “hand wringing” over NSA mass surveillance since Edward Snowden’s disclosures is preventing the government from identifying terrorists — even though the only NSA reform legislation that has passed since has not even been implemented. [read post]
25 Jul 2018, 7:31 am
  Also troubling within the context of the crackdown is the extent to which international companies, who have reportedly supplied surveillance and biometric technology to Xinjiang authorities, may be unwittingly or wittingly complicit in these human rights abuses and privacy violations.The hearing will look at the serious and deteriorating human rights situation faced by Uyghurs; examine the Chinese government’s efforts to build the world’s most advanced… [read post]
13 May 2015, 2:29 pm
But while USA Freedom attempts to rein in overbroad surveillance, and H.R. 2233 focuses on the government’s backdoors, some in Congress are trying to ensure that intelligence agencies get to keep doing exactly what they have been doing. [read post]