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21 Mar 2014, 6:09 am
Sunshine Week provides a great opportunity to look back at a banner year for FOIA and fighting the secrecy surrounding government surveillance programs. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 4:57 pm
The project will enlist volunteers to use their smartphones to identify, photograph, and locate government-owned surveillance cameras capable of shooting video that could be matched against people’s faces in a database through AI-powered facial recognition. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 8:32 am
Enacted in 2008, the FISA Amendments Act allows the government dragnet access to our international communications without warrants, without any suspicion of wrongdoing, and without ever identifying the targets of its surveillance to a court. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 11:33 am
The unclassified report was prepared by the inspectors general of five government bodies involved in the original program. [read post]
11 Nov 2020, 10:15 am
We will now have EU-wide transparency on the export of cyber surveillance and will control the export of biometric surveillance. [read post]
1 Apr 2012, 5:09 pm
The U.K. government is preparing proposals for a nationwide electronic surveillance network that could potentially keep track of every message sent by any Brit to anyone at any time, an industry official briefed on the government’s moves said. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 10:54 am
In his story today on the deal struck in Congress to change the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Times' Eric Lichtblau calls it "the most significant revision of surveillance law in 30 years" and "a major victory for the White House after months of dispute. [read post]
28 Dec 2014, 8:47 am
And the government still refuses to release some of the most significant decisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court—the secret court tasked with monitoring the government’s surveillance programs. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 2:10 pm
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6 Jun 2013, 3:01 pm
"Intelligence committee member Mark Udall, who has previously warned in broad terms about the scale of government snooping, said: "This sort of widescale surveillance should concern all of us and is the kind of government overreach I've said Americans would find shocking." [read post]
3 May 2020, 6:13 pm
Washington Post via MSN – So is an uneasy tolerance of surveillance. [read post]
24 Dec 2014, 3:17 am
…the Federal Bureau of Investigation approached Santa Claus to enlist his cooperation in a new surveillance program. [read post]
30 Sep 2007, 5:00 pm
In these cases, the government invoked the state secrets privilege in its motions to dismiss, and in both cases it lost at the district court level. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 2:26 pm
Among these is the 'library' provision which allows the government to seek surveillance orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for tangible things, including medical and library records, that it states are related to a terrorism investigation. [read post]
3 Jul 2008, 6:28 pm
WHILE FEDERAL COURTS ARE SCRUTINIZING SURVEILLANCE OF ISLAMIC CHARITIES by the U.S. government, they're also opening the door to massive domestic surveillance by corporations: Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 2:26 pm
Among these is the 'library' provision which allows the government to seek surveillance orders from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for tangible things, including medical and library records, that it states are related to a terrorism investigation. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 7:13 am
The government claims that this program is authorized by a surveillance statute passed in 2008 that allows the government to target foreigners for surveillance. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 3:37 pm
The U.S. government made clear that it did not intend to change its surveillance practices, nor push for legislative fixes in Congress. [read post]
4 Apr 2024, 10:13 am
But, in the context of Section 702 reauthorization, the government is effectively asking for special surveillance permissions for itself, that its surveillance continue to be subjected to minimal oversight while other other countries’ surveillance practices are regulated. [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 7:16 am
@evgenymorozov has a piece in the NYTimes this morning in which he ties trends in domestic surveillance to the use of technology by repressive governments to track their populations. [read post]
