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10 Jun 2013, 7:14 am
In his comments Friday, Obama said that he "welcomes" a debate about the proper limits on government surveillance. [read post]
23 May 2017, 2:15 pm
The government claims that Upstream surveillance is authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 3:17 pm
The bill would ban the use of face surveillance by the federal government, as well as withhold certain federal funds from local and state governments that use the technology. [read post]
30 Jul 2018, 7:30 am
The Constitution and democratic system demand that the government be transparent and accountable to the people, not the other way around. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 12:36 pm
(Section 1881a, which was added by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, authorizes, under certain circumstances, the government surveillance of individuals who are not “United States persons” and are reasonably believed to be located outside the United States). [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 2:21 pm
Tooley believes the government put him under blanket surveillance after he said the word bomb to an airline agent. [read post]
11 Feb 2013, 12:00 am
“For drones, I think the problem is that they do have some legitimate law enforcement purposes, but they raise massive problems of invasion of privacy and government surveillance that we need to think through before we deploy drones in vast numbers in our skies,” says Neil Richards, professor of law at Washington University in St. [read post]
21 Dec 2020, 10:22 am
Once a government acquires a person’s faceprint, it creates a risk of a unique and unprecedented form of persistent surveillance, one that allows the government to identify and track people without their knowledge. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 8:50 am
Currently, in secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court proceedings, there are two parties – the judge and the government attorney arguing for surveillance. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 8:28 am
The use of surveillance drones is growing rapidly in the United States, but we know little about how the federal government employs this new technology. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 6:29 am
The report asserts that the Eritrean government, led by President Isaias Afwerki [BBC profile], has imposed a culture of fear through the restriction of many essential freedoms, including maintaining constant surveillance of citizens, placing heavy... [read post]
11 Dec 2007, 3:10 pm
The ACLU announces: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) announced today that it will not make public orders and legal papers pertaining to the scope of the government's authority to engage in the secret wiretapping of Americans. [read post]
25 Jul 2007, 9:19 am
[JURIST] A federal judge Tuesday refused to dismiss [order, PDF] lawsuits brought by several states seeking more information from the federal government about the administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
6 Feb 2003, 8:08 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union Wednesday renewed its warnings [ACLU government surveillance backgrounder] about the US government's Total Information Awareness cybersecurity initiative. [read post]
10 Dec 2013, 6:33 am
[JURIST] Amnesty International (AI) [advocacy website] announced [press release] on Monday that it has filed a complaint against the UK government over concerns that the country's intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) [official website] unlawfully accessed AI's communications. [read post]
4 Oct 2006, 9:35 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] ruled [text, PDF] Wednesday that the US government can continue to operate its domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive; US DOJ fact sheet, PDF] pending appeal of US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor's August 17 ruling [PDF text; JURIST report] that the government's program is unconstitutional. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 8:13 pm
[JURIST] Attorneys for the US government and for plaintiffs asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation [official website] Thursday to consolidate more than 20 cases involving telephone companies' roles in the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 2:47 pm
Internet activists say governments ranging from Egypt to Pakistan have been trying to control the Internet through tactics like filtering and blocking of content and surveillance, making the lives of users and rights campaigners difficult. [read post]
3 Oct 2006, 3:43 am
[JURIST] The US and UK governments have been discussing the release of nine British residents [JURIST report] currently being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], but the British government has so far refused to accept the men, saying that US demands for continued surveillance of the prisoners after their hand-over are unnecessary and unworkable, the Guardian [read post]
15 Dec 2007, 11:44 am
"The Court That May Not Be Heard": The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the special court that reviews government requests for warrants to spy on suspected foreign agents in the United States, seems to have forgotten that its job is to ensure that the government is accountable for following the law -- not to help the Bush administration keep its secrets. [read post]
