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12 Jul 2022, 1:37 pm by Adam Schwartz
The letters begin by quoting EFF’s Eva Galperin regarding the “unprecedented digital surveillance” faced today by abortion seekers. [read post]
20 Feb 2025, 6:43 am by Ryan Mulvey
”; finally, concluding “that the breadth of Plaintiff’s request is unreasonable in light of Plaintiff’s asserted purpose” for seeking records, namely, to “protect employee rights by confronting the federal government’s mandates requiring vaccination for COVID-19. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
While FDR brushed aside civil liberties objections to electronic surveillance, the military trial of Nazi saboteurs, and the internment of Japanese-Americans, the other branches of government ultimately supported his policies. [read post]
25 Apr 2017, 6:09 pm by Adam Schwartz
Foreign nations may retaliate and subject U.S. visitors to the same surveillance. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 8:52 am by Mark Jaycox
The letter was signed by the Reform Government Surveillance coalition; which represents major tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo; and, privacy groups like ACLU and EFF. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 5:05 pm by Kevin
 Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users  (NYT)  This is an important issue that the geospatial community should closely follow around the world. [read post]
6 Jun 2013, 5:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The story opened:The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries.The document shows for the first time that… [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 3:02 pm
He also ruled that Congress has complete discretion to grant power to the government to conduct secret surveillance; and that there is violation of individual privacy rights in the program developed by the NSA. [read post]
8 Sep 2016, 9:03 am by rainey Reitman
In short, the pending updates would make it easier for the government to get a warrant to hack1 into computers. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
Moreover, the family unit was the central target of the CTA surveillance and policing regime, which aimed to produce 'industrious' families. [read post]
7 Jan 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Questions of church government are fundamentally ecclesiastical in nature....Ultimately, Defendant Auguste's decision to exclude Plaintiffs from church property and the ensuing events are so inextricably intertwined with matters of church governance, administration, and membership — regardless of the legal theories presented — that the adjudication of such issues would "excessively entangle[e] the judiciary in [ecclesiastical] questions. [read post]
16 May 2023, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
  Governments in many parts of the world continue to target religious minorities using a host of methods, including torture, beatings, unlawful surveillance, and so-called re-education camps. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 7:13 pm by Rainey Reitman
And although this is a very different issue from NSA mass spying, the attention on over-reaching surveillance has brought new life to the debate. [read post]
10 Jul 2019, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
” These officials marked Pastor Dousa for surveillance because she prayed with and for immigrants, and because she generated publicity about the devastation that ICE’s enforcement activities rain on immigrants and their families.12. [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 8:18 am by Charlie Hogle
The Patriot Act has been used repeatedly by the government in an attempt to justify rights-violating surveillance and other abuses, but never before has the government invoked it to hold someone in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment’s guarantee of a due process. [read post]
19 Apr 2016, 4:53 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The FISC operates mostly in secret and grants nearly every government surveillance request it receives…” [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 7:32 am by Jay Stanley
The public and its representatives in Congress have an important policymaking role to play when it comes to surveillance, but keeping the government’s policies secret prevents it from playing that role. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 8:39 am by rainey Reitman
Tracking transparency reports year over year is vital to the public’s understand of government efforts to surveil and censor. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 3:45 pm by Adam Schwartz
Among other things, we oppose biometric surveillance of immigrant communities, rapid DNA analyzers as a tool of immigration enforcement, and social media monitoring of citizenship applicants and foreign visitors. [read post]