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25 May 2007, 8:03 am
The ACLU also filed a challenge to the surveillance program itself, which we won in federal court and is now awaiting a decision on the government's appeal. [read post]
28 Jul 2021, 12:25 pm by India McKinney
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requires tech and telecommunications companies to provide the U.S. government with access to emails and other communications to aid in national security investigations--ostensibly when U.S. persons are in communication with foreign surveillance targets abroad or wholly foreign communications transit the U.S. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 4:09 pm by Andrew Crocker
Although NSLs gag orders severely restrict the providers’ ability to talk about their involvement in government surveillance, the FBI can issue them without court oversight. [read post]
5 Sep 2024, 10:13 am by Hannah Zhao
For years, EFF has been monitoring and warning about the dangers of automated and so-called “AI-enhanced” surveillance at the U.S. [read post]
26 Feb 2020, 5:47 pm by India McKinney
In 2015, after Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 and after a federal appeals court ruled that the government’s interpretation of Section 215 was “unprecedented and unwarranted,” Congress passed the USA FREEDOM Act to amend Section 215 to stop mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 4:00 am by Michael C. Dorf
Because the Constitution applies only to the government, they are not protected against surveillance by the Fourth Amendment or any other constitutional provision. [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 9:35 am by Danny O'Brien
Directly after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, we cautioned the public and politicians to be "wary of any attempt to rush through new surveillance and law enforcement powers. [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 4:30 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
(She was referring to an example from an earlier panel: Police in Switzerland can't engage in surveillance practice until the legislature has regulated it. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 10:13 am by Lee Tien and Yonatan Moskowitz
The Intelligence Surveillance Activities Loophole Lastly, HHS proposes absolute ethics-review exemptions for “intelligence surveillance activities. [read post]
22 Mar 2019, 11:26 am by Andrew Crocker
For example, Chief Justice Roberts wrote that because nearly everyone uses a cell phone, the government’s tracking ability “runs against everyone,” and “[o]nly the few without cell phones could escape this tireless and absolute surveillance. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 4:40 am by Old Fox
Marketed for its groundbreaking proprietary Internet telephony (VoIP) protocol, its real purpose was data mining and domestic surveillance.Click to see ‘Times articleIn retrospect, this should not be surprising; in post-Edward Snowden America, even publications like The New York Times have reported on tech companies like Yahoo, Google, Facebook, YouTube, AOL, Apple and many others as having cooperated with an increasingly intrusive (and in some cases criminal) government in… [read post]
24 Jun 2015, 11:35 pm by Florian Mueller
And what is true for technology is also true for public innovation, meaning governance structures and social innovation. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 9:04 am by rainey Reitman
Pressure can also include the government asking companies to build backdoors into their software to facilitate surveillance, requiring companies to shut down specific accounts or types of accounts, asking companies to keep open or freeze certain accounts or types of accounts, requiring or requesting detailed data on users, and more. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 9:04 am by rainey Reitman
Pressure can also include the government asking companies to build backdoors into their software to facilitate surveillance, requiring companies to shut down specific accounts or types of accounts, asking companies to keep open or freeze certain accounts or types of accounts, requiring or requesting detailed data on users, and more. [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 8:47 am
  Once the government has reason to believe that a specific account, person or facility will have contact with someone in the United States, the government should be required to return to the FISC to obtain a court order for continued surveillance. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 4:16 pm by Amul Kalia
’ But this framing of the debate is somewhat dishonest given that not a single legislation has been passed by Congress to curtail the dragnet surveillance of millions of innocent Americans and the only entities that have taken significant action to curtail mass surveillance on a national level have been private companies.So the FBI is just running the same old line against encryption. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 12:13 pm by Cooper Quintin and Eva Galperin
We are glad to have an even better understanding of the techniques and tools used by the surveillance state. [read post]