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11 May 2016, 5:53 pm by Cindy Cohn and rainey Reitman
Our society still suffers from privacy invasions, speech restrictions, and government surveillance, while those who work to shine a light on these problems often face disproportionately harsh penalties. [read post]
28 Oct 2013, 5:28 pm by Mark Rumold
The government released a second batch of documents yesterday in response to EFF's ongoing FOIA lawsuit for information concerning Section 215 of the Patriot Act—the provision of law the government relies on to compel the disclosure of records of millions of Americans' calls. [read post]
That law gets it backwards and provides insufficient protections against government abuse of drones while prohibiting private use in ways that likely violate the First Amendment. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 6:35 am
The Tenth Amendment Center and The West Wire News note this development and argue that the law is a positive step that will protect privacy and thwart federal surveillance efforts.As far as state laws restricting government drone use are concerned, North Dakota's is one of the stricter laws I've seen. [read post]
19 Nov 2024, 11:37 am by Matthew Guariglia
EFF has had to fight in court a number of times in an attempt to make public even the most basic frameworks of global dragnet surveillance and the rules that govern it. [read post]
31 May 2015, 5:57 pm
  We should all pause and for us at EFF who’ve been fighting mass surveillance since 2006, take a moment to smile. [read post]
2 Feb 2023, 3:57 pm by Josh Richman
” In most places, the press and public have no way of knowing how many SCA warrants the government applies for, what kinds of records it’s seeking, what information the government presented to support its warrant applications, and how many of the applications are granted or denied. [read post]
28 Nov 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
Determined to crush it, government officials launched a decades-long “war on anarchy,” a brutal program of spying, censorship, and deportation that set the foundations of the modern surveillance state. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 9:25 am by Betsy McKenzie
 Also, changes to government's surveillance powers require changes to secure some level of citizen privacy. [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 11:04 am by David Greene
But Judge Leon’s opinion and his refutation of the government’s arguments, which are almost identical to the government's arguments in other mass surveillance cases, should be broadly influential in ongoing and future challenges to the NSA's suspicionless spying. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 2:59 am by Mark Jaycox and Mark M. Jaycox
For some heavy reading that will leave you with a sense of surveillance déjà vu, you can also peruse the Church Committee's historic reports here. [read post]
1 Apr 2025, 5:29 am by Jacob Katz Cogan
This exposes these communities to grave risks of surveillance, hackability, and exploitation—risks further entrenched by the privileges and immunities that shield these international institutions from independent oversight. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 11:06 am by Jillian C. York
So governments are obviously trying to manage and control things. [read post]
7 Sep 2009, 8:27 am by Steve Statsinger
This left the government only with "traditional surveillance. [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 9:20 am by Jon Brodkin
A court filing by the brothers said they were stonewalled by the government when seeking to find out whether the Justice Department was using evidence derived from surveillance authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). [read post]
19 Mar 2013, 9:22 am by Cyrus Farivar
As we reported last year, the NZ government admitted after the fact that Dotcom should not have been subjected to government surveillance due to his obtaining permanent resident status. [read post]
The public largely remains in the dark about local law enforcement's use of these tools, meaning legislators don't have the information they need to make laws to govern the new technology, and courts can't rule on the legality of the surveillance. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 10:22 am by Mark Jaycox
The bill has some problems, but is a major step forward for surveillance reform. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 12:14 pm by Nadia Kayyali
The newly unredacted portions shed light on the government’s sordid scheme to harass and discredit Dr. [read post]