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29 Jan 2007, 3:02 am
I should add that the FISA court orders in question presumably are only with respect to the particular electronic surveillance requested by the government in a particular case. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 3:26 pm by Rekha Arulanantham
The FISA Amendments Act permits the government to conduct dragnet secret surveillance of Americans’ international communications—that is, surveillance that is not limited to a specific person and may go on for up to one year without any court approval. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 3:47 pm by Suzanne Ito
ACLU deputy legal director Jameel Jaffer stated in a press release, “It’s crucial that the government’s surveillance activities be subject to constitutional limits, but the administration’s argument would effectively insulate the most intrusive surveillance programs from judicial review. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 1:57 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
But as sophisticated government surveillance methods are turned toward the general public, I wouldn't be surprised to see demand for such devices expand beyond the criminal class. [read post]
22 Jun 2008, 7:38 am
There have been, essentially, three Administration approaches to modernizing electronic surveillance - one directed at each branch of the federal government. [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 1:57 am
The government has to show probable cause that "(A) the target of the electronic surveillance is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power . . . and (B) each of the facilities or places at which the electronic surveillance is directed is being used, or is about to be used, by a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 5:47 pm
They will also likely give retroactive amnesty to telecom companies that agreed to illegal and sweeping surveillance requests from the same government agencies that dole out fat secret contracts to the very same telecom companies. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 9:54 am
See also our report on the Surveillance-Industrial Complex.) [read post]
15 Oct 2012, 3:58 pm by joel
The Supreme Court’s refusal to review Hepting may not be the end of the EFF’s warpath against government surveillance. [read post]
20 Feb 2012, 8:56 pm by Michael Geist
Surveillance mandates in other countries have typically come with government support. [read post]
9 Jul 2009, 3:37 pm
Jon Eisenberg, an attorney for the al-Haramain lawyers - Wendell Belew and Asim Gafoor, urged Walker to order the government to disclose whether the alleged surveillance “was authorized by a warrant. [read post]
" Many Americans have said this, or heard it, when discussing the expanded surveillance capabilities the government has claimed since 9/11. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 6:53 am by Jeff Welty
Similarly, a court might find that protracted aerial surveillance is not governed by Ciraolo. [read post]
12 Dec 2016, 6:53 am by Jeff Welty
Similarly, a court might find that protracted aerial surveillance is not governed by Ciraolo. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 1:48 pm by Joe Silver
The testimony was published Tuesday by advocacy organization Privacy International in relation to a suit challenging dragnet government surveillance in the UK. [read post]
6 Jan 2015, 9:11 am by Sean Gallagher
Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS investigative reporter who published her claims of government intimidation, electronic surveillance, and cyber-attacks in a book last fall, has begun the process of taking the government to court over the hacking of her personal and work computers, as well as her home network. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 12:02 pm
10/20/2011 Petition to Congress for Privacy Law Reform Security & Surveillance ECPA The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the US data privacy law specifying standards for government surveillance of our mobile phone and Internet communications, was enacted on October 21,… [read post]
26 Aug 2017, 12:46 pm by John Floyd
  The Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) reported recently that in 2016 the government filed 1,485 applications for FISA surveillance, either electronic surveillance or physical searches. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 8:47 am by rainey Reitman
Millions of people who have nothing in particular to hide may also choose to use privacy tools just because they’re concerned about government surveillance of the Internet, or because they don’t like leaving a data trail around haphazardly. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 8:26 pm by Kevin Chan
A public debate on state surveillance in Canada may yet materialize this fall. [read post]