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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]
11 Jun 2013, 9:34 am
I could not disagree more with Senator Rand Paul on matters such as government support for medical care for the poor but on government electronic surveillance, he is spot on: Rand Paul, Big Brother Actually Is Watching Us, Monitoring hundreds of millions of phone records is an extraordinary invasion of privacy Wall Street Journal (June 2013). [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]
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]
3 Jul 2008, 1:55 am
Taking a swipe at the edifice of executive power built up over the course of the Bush Administration, federal Judge Vaughn Walker ruled late Wednesday that the government can't invoke the state secrets privilege to block suits brought under the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. [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]
21 Jan 2016, 5:14 pm
Our recent report about how Americans think about privacy and sharing personal information was a capstone of this two-and-a-half-year effort that examined how people viewed not only government surveillance but also commercial transactions involving the capture of personal information. [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]
31 Jan 2008, 11:27 am
And, of course, field-tested here: Keeping an Eye on China's Security [W]ith China now becoming wealthier and its citizens more mobile, the government is now embracing the extensive use of street-by-street surveillance technology â€â [read post]
5 May 2020, 8:59 am
“At the same time, Americans are worried that such measures would lead to greater government surveillance in the long term, even after the pandemic has been defeated” The survey showed that “(~52%) Americans believe that retaining their personal privacy is more important than surrendering it to the authorities in order to fight the spread of the pandemic” “Almost two thirds (~65%) would disapprove of their government collecting their data or… [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 7:58 pm
Orin says no big deal about "National Surveillance": in the modern world, governments use computers in the course of detecting criminal activity, but government use of computers is not the same as living in a "surveillance state. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 3:45 pm
Following the recent data breaches at Sony and the attacks at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, certain politicians have wasted no time calling for increased government surveillance, broader anti-hacking statutes (with stiffer penalties), and, in the case of British Prime Minister David Cameron, a call to limit non-government use of encryption technologies. [read post]
10 May 2013, 11:38 am
to discuss this and other ACLU revelations regarding government surveillances practices. [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 12:32 pm
Wednesday Hearing On EFF Demand to Disclose Export Applications for Surveillance Technology Stanford, California—On Wednesday, October 21, at 12:45 pm, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a federal appeals court to order the U.S. government to disclose information about its role in facilitating exports of American-made surveillance tools to foreign nations. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 6:50 am
American companies have much to lose from these government surveillance programs. [read post]
18 Jan 2007, 11:43 am
The government will be operating under the FISA regime, rather than relying on the Authorization for Use of Military Force and inherent Article II power arguments from before. [read post]
26 Mar 2025, 7:21 pm
Cyber Insider: “A Mozilla-led campaign is calling on major tech platforms to block surveillance firm ShadowDragon from scraping user data from over 200 websites — including Reddit, Tinder, Duolingo, and Etsy — to support U.S. government surveillance programs, especially those run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 1:12 pm
Thompson II, Legislative Attorney (September 6, 2012): The prospect of drone use inside the United States raises far-reaching issues concerning the extent of government surveillance authority, the value of privacy in the digital age, and the role of Congress in reconciling these issues. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 11:53 am
Government surveillance must abide by the principle of proportionality, exhausting all possible legal remedies before violating the privacy of an individual. [read post]
