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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]
11 Jun 2013, 9:34 am by Peter Tillers
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]
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]
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]
13 Aug 2013, 6:50 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
American companies have much to lose from these government surveillance programs. [read post]
10 May 2013, 11:38 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
to discuss this and other ACLU revelations regarding government surveillances practices. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 3:45 pm by Jeffrey Vagle
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]
19 Oct 2015, 12:32 pm by Karen Gullo
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]
21 Jan 2016, 5:14 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
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]
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]
7 Apr 2015, 6:08 pm by Rebecca Jeschke
This lawsuit aims to vindicate HRW’s rights, and the rights of all Americans, to make calls overseas without being subject to government surveillance. [read post]
17 Jan 2020, 7:30 am by Abdullah Hasan
Face recognition offers governments a surveillance capability unlike any other technology in the past. [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]
9 Jun 2014, 1:05 pm by April Glaser
And students will be a critical force in building a movement to raise awareness, push for change, and put an end to mass government surveillance. [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 by Odia Kagan
“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]