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8 Jul 2008, 2:44 pm
The bill dangerously weakens the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. [read post]
Numerous activists have expressed concerns that this decree will be used to suppress differing viewpoints, highlighting the potential for increased surveillance and censorship. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 3:15 pm
The potential for government eavesdropping on Americans was back before the U.S. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 1:29 pm
I'm generally not a fan of government data mining programs. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 4:59 am by Jim Harper
As C|Net’s Declan McCullagh points out, the legislation exempts the federal government and law enforcement: [T]he measure applies only to companies and some nonprofit groups, not to the federal, state, and local police agencies that have adopted high-tech surveillance technologies including cell phone tracking, GPS bugs, and requests to Internet companies for users’ personal information–in many cases without obtaining a search warrant from a judge. [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 11:04 am
Conference attendees can look forward to hearing from renowned experts on civil liberties topics that have become all too familiar to us in a post 9/11 world — government surveillance, torture, the suspension of habeas corpus, and increased government intrusion into private matters — as well as first-hand accounts from ACLU clients, who have fought to claim their constitutionally protected rights. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 8:34 am by David Kravets
The government has said it has never invoked that provision, but the Obama administration said it wanted to retain the authority to do so. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 9:29 am by Ateqah Khaki, ACLU
The ACLU filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Court to find that the wealth of personal details gleaned from the 24/7 surveillance of GPS tracking rises to the level of private information that is covered by the Fourth Amendment. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 7:11 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
As the Court noted, not only does access to this kind of information allow the government to achieve “near perfect surveillance, as if it had attached an ankle monitor to the phone’s user,” but, because phone companies collect it for every device, the “police need not even know in advance whether they want to follow a particular individual, or when. [read post]
31 Oct 2019, 1:01 pm by Kate Cox
Enlarge / A video surveillance camera hangs from the side of a building on May 14, 2019, in San Francisco, California. [read post]
24 Sep 2007, 12:00 pm
The only way that AT&T or Verizon could be liable for billions in fines is if there actually was a dragnet surveillance program. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 1:59 am
Almost 70 percent of the Chinese public are not confident about the safety of the country's food supply, a recent national survey found.Insight China and Tsinghua Media Survey Lab teamed up to conduct the survey, the results of which were released over the weekend and did not bode well for a government trying to boost consumer and trading partner confidence amidst a slew of high-profile food safety scandals, from melamine-tainted dairy to chemical-laced hot pot soups.More than half of… [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 5:52 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Customizable with an extensive range of capabilities depending on the target, it provides its controllers with a powerful framework for mass surveillance and has been used in spying operations against government organizations, infrastructure operators, businesses, researchers, and private individuals. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 7:15 am by Lawrence Solum
Ultimately, the Carpenter test can clarify when individuals will be protected against government surveillance and provide courts with meaningful guidance and direction. [read post]
12 May 2011, 5:00 am by Doug Cornelius
The most interesting aspect of Raj’s case is the government’s use of wiretaps and surveillance. [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 4:39 am by Edith Roberts
At Reason’s Hit & Run blog, Damon Root argues that “’Get a warrant’ is the perfect message for the Supreme Court to tell the government in this case. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 3:39 am by Edward Rubin
In addition, the government’s access to big data enables it to impose indirect threats to free speech in the form of wide ranging, coordinated surveillance of the individual’s activities. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 10:38 am
The prosecutors said surveillance was not a factor but Lee "said the timing of the plea agreement led her to believe it was. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 2:58 am by Walter Olson
[Mark Pulliam, Law and Liberty] “What Will the E-Verify Program Be Used to Surveil Next? [read post]