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10 May 2024, 9:21 am by Matthew Guariglia
  Section 702 allows the government to conduct surveillance inside the United States by vacuuming up digital communications so long as the surveillance is directed at foreigners currently located outside the United States. [read post]
21 May 2012, 9:30 pm by Michael Geist
Canada's proposed Internet surveillance was back in the news last week after speculation grew that government intends to keep the bill in legislative limbo until it dies on the order paper. [read post]
We depend on the press to keep us informed, helping ensure the government's accountability to the governed. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 11:11 am by Rainey Reitman and Rainey Reitman
  This comes just two days after Rajesh De, the general counsel of the NSA, stated before a government oversight board that tech companies were legally mandated to assist the government in mass surveillance programs and companies were aware of the surveillance. [read post]
First and foremost, the USA Freedom Act would not restrict the government's ability to conduct surveillance abroad or on the battlefield. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 7:48 am by Kate Tummarello and Nate Cardozo
In advance of this hearing, a coalition of Internet giants known as Reform Government Surveillance issued a letter calling for significant reforms to Section 702. [read post]
U.S. disregard for noncitizens' right to privacy gives the green light to other governments to indiscriminately collect and surveil Americans' most personal data. [read post]
21 Dec 2023, 8:06 am by Saira Hussain
Customs and Border Protection, was filed after a 2019 news report revealed the federal government was conducting surveillance of journalists, lawyers, and activists thought to be associated with the so-called “migrant caravan” coming through Central America and Mexico. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 10:34 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) “Thus he argues that video surveillance by or with the consent of a government informant constitutes a search within the gambit of the Fourth Amendment’s protections, and a warrant is therefore necessary to legally conduct such video surveillance. [read post]
7 May 2013, 9:14 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
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21 Dec 2013, 4:21 pm by Rebecca Jeschke
Surprisingly, in these documents and in the brief filed with them, the government continues to claim that plaintiffs cannot prove they were surveilled without state secrets and that therefore, a court cannot rule on the legality or constitutionality of the surveillance. [read post]
5 Nov 2007, 2:15 pm
Ashcroft think that the government or the telecommunications companies could reasonably have believed in this situation that the government's surveillance program was lawful? [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 7:34 am by brian
Drone technology is largely a product of our war efforts abroad, but the federal government is repurposing these machines for surveillance purposes at home. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 8:54 pm by Cindy Cohn
The board also deferred considering whether the surveillance infringed the privacy of many millions more foreigners abroad. [read post]
20 Dec 2013, 11:09 am by aallwash
The 300+ page report includes 46 recommendations to reform government surveillance of online and telephone communications for the purposes of national security and suggests new limits on the NSA programs. [read post]
14 Jul 2006, 12:35 am
Arlen Specter has made a deal with the White House which bring the government's broad surveillance program back under some outside supervision.He is saying that the White House has agreed to legislation that would give the FISA Court (created by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) review the Constitutionality of the NSA program and oversee they way it is conducted.But the law would also allow for more wiretaps without a warrant and for roving wiretaps. to… [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 3:21 pm
The case arose when an anonymous communications company challenged the government's demand that it assist in carrying out the surveillance. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 5:23 am by Tom Smith
The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 9:06 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Magistrate judges, by contrast, issue  some 30,000 secret surveillance orders annually, that overwhelming majority of which will remain sealed forever. [read post]