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16 Nov 2007, 12:02 am
[JURIST] The US House of Representatives passed the RESTORE Act of 2007 ("Responsible Electronic Surveillance That is Overseen, Reviewed and Effective Act of 2007") [HR 3773 materials] by a margin of 227-187 [roll call] late Thursday without including a provision that would grant immunity to telecommunication companies [JURIST report] that aided the US government in its domestic surveillance [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 5:38 am
[JURIST] US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) [official websites] said Wednesday that Democrats are willing to expand government surveillance over foreign communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive], but disagree with the White House over spending and "the involvement of the attorney general. [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 6:00 am
WASHINGTON — The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times, cellphone surveillance technology — all hidden behind fictitious companies that are fronts for the government, The Associated Press has learned. [read post]
14 Apr 2015, 4:37 pm
" "A public statement endorsed by Clement and faculty at iSchools across North America calls for universities to: develop curriculum that addresses issues of mass state surveillance and prepare students to understand better the surveillance to which they are exposed; invite NSA and other government officials as guest course speakers to address issues of mass state surveillance and respond to student questions; and invite NSA… [read post]
23 Apr 2013, 12:00 am
“History has shown repeatedly that broad government surveillance powers inevitably get abused – whether by the Gestapo, the Stasi, or our own FBI, which engaged in unlawful surveillance and blackmail of ‘dangerous’ people like Martin Luther King, Jr. [read post]
5 Jun 2025, 12:06 pm
Prison Surveillance, System Avoidance, and the Health of People Formerly Incarcerated Recent attempts to merge disconnected data systems within agencies reveal the government’s capacity for surveillance and population control, and highlight critical data privacy concerns. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 11:55 pm
The push for new Internet surveillance capabilities goes back to 1999, when government officials began crafting proposals to institute new surveillance technologies within Canadian networks along with additional legal powers to access surveillance and subscriber information. [read post]
9 Sep 2021, 8:32 am
The new ordinance prohibits the use of facial recognition technology by city residents, businesses, and most of the city government (excluding the city police department) until December 2022. [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 7:57 am
Section 702 permits the US government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the US without a warrant in order to acquire “foreign intelligence information. [read post]
26 Sep 2015, 6:38 pm
The agency, under cover of secrecy, was working to create what it said would soon be the biggest government surveillance system anywhere in the world…” [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 3:01 pm
A new report by the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), Breach of Privilege: Spying on Lawyers in the United States, brings to light the government's long history of covert surveillance of attorneys and their activist clients. [read post]
16 Oct 2013, 7:13 pm
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Presiding Judge Reggie Walton wrote to Senators Leahy and Grassley this week that "24.4% of matters submitted [to the FISA court] ultimately involved substantive changes to the information provided by the government or to the authorities... [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 1:31 am
“Councils are to have their powers to snoop on the public curbed under government plans aimed at addressing alarm at the expansion of the surveillance state. [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 6:19 pm
From The New York Times: President Biden on Monday signed an executive order restricting American government use of a class of powerful surveillance tools that have been abused by both autocracies and democracies around the world to spy on political... [read post]
7 Jun 2013, 11:24 am
In part: WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday offered a robust defense of the government surveillance programs revealed this week, and sought... [read post]
6 Jul 2007, 3:07 pm
Commentators and Congress have long assumed that government surveillance of non-content "header" information like e-mail addresses and IP addresses, typically done by a service provider, do not violate a Fourth Amendment... [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 2:51 am
The Senate Judiciary Committee sent subpoenas to the White House, the Office of the Vice President, the National Security Counsel, and the Department of Justice for documents related to the government's domestic surveillance program launched after the September 11 attacks.... [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 2:04 pm
NSA arguing that the statutory claims against the government for the NSA warrantless surveillance program cannot proceed because the causes... [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 10:53 am
This post from SCOTUS blog describes a first for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, asking the government to file a response brief to pleadings by the ACLU asking for access to the court's secret records. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 6:01 am
Meta alleges that NSO Group, an Israel-based surveillance software developer, exploited bugs in the popular WhatsApp instant messaging application, allowing "foreign governments" to spy on journalists, human rights activists, and opposition politicians. [read post]
