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11 Jun 2013, 3:32 pm by Jay Stanley
The first is, how much surveillance of the American people should the government conduct? [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]
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 by Mali Friedman
  (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]
10 Jun 2013, 7:14 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
In his comments Friday, Obama said that he "welcomes" a debate about the proper limits on government surveillance. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 6:29 am by Matthew Harwood
Last month, the Reform Government Surveillance coalition, which includes Google, Apple, AOL, Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo, sent a letter to U.S. lawmakers calling for the government to end the bulk collection of data.It's important to remember how fast even the most entrenched beliefs can change. [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 by Matthew Guariglia
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]
Kidane, who is suing the Ethiopian government for covertly installing spyware on his computer in the United States, surveilling his Skype conversations and Google searches), detailed descriptions and screenshots of internal Ethiopian Telecommunications wiretapping software, and testimony from Ethiopia’s own whistleblowers from within their security service, the report paints a picture of a regime just beginning to flex its digital surveillance muscles. [read post]
28 Feb 2006, 7:02 am
[JURIST] The New York Times [media website] sued the US Department of Defense [official website] Monday over the government's failure to release requested documents regarding the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [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]
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 by Cynthia Miley
[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]
9 Jun 2015, 6:29 am by Valerie Howell
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]
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 Sep 2011, 2:47 pm by Doug Isenberg
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]
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]