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19 May 2021, 12:34 pm
All too often, police and other government agencies unleash invasive surveillance technologies on the streets of our communities, based on the unilateral and secret decisions of agency executives, after hearing from no one except corporate sales agents. [read post]
8 Aug 2007, 12:21 pm
The White House is pushing back against critics who say the scope of the recent expansion of government spy powers does much more than close the so-called "surveillance gap" -- and grants the government extraordinary powers with little meaningful oversight. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 7:36 pm
Factors important to consider in analyzing whether this type of surveillance intrudes upon a person’s reasonable privacy interest include the area surveilled, the length of time the area is surveilled and whether the equipment used for surveillance is of the type generally available to the public (see Kyllo v. [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 9:59 am
The government has just officially confirmed what we've long suspected: there are secret Justice Department opinions about the Patriot Act's Section 215, which allows the government to get secret orders from a special surveillance court (the FISA Court) requiring Internet service providers and other companies to turn over "any tangible things. [read post]
26 May 2021, 4:15 pm
Back on the bright side, we were happy that the Grand Chamber once again rejected the UK government’s contention (akin to the U.S. government’s) that privacy invasions only occur once a human being looks at intercepted communications. [read post]
30 Apr 2009, 3:52 pm
Following the release of an annual report this week about wiretaps requested by state and federal law enforcement agencies comes a complaint from the Electronic Privacy Information Center that the government has been derelict in its duty to report other surveillance statistics having to do with “pen register” and “trap and trace” orders. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 7:52 pm
Decision makers in the national surveillance state have capitalized on the amorphousness of "relevance" to authorize government collection of vast amounts of data. [read post]
23 Aug 2013, 12:00 am
They must be inaccessible to the government unless it can prove to a neutral judge that surveillance is warranted, which means more than ‘relevance’ to an investigation and more than mere curiosity. [read post]
24 Sep 2020, 7:14 am
-- denying plaintiff’s motions to find FBI in contempt for violating court’s previous orders, but instructing FBI to increase its rate of document production to 1000 pages per month and to search an electronic surveillance database in response to plaintiff’s request for records pertaining to government surveillance of Muslim Americans in Chicago area in the 1990s James Madison Proj. v. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 1:18 pm
Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technologically complicated government surveillance program operating under section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act In the lead up to this report, I had identified eight basic but important questions the public needs to know about section 702 surveillance. [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 4:48 am
The following is from selected parts of Zephyr Teachout’s “The Boss Will See You Now” (New York Review of Books, Aug. 18, 2022), a review essay of four recent titles about digital surveillance, tracking, and performance monitoring of millions of workers in an affluent capitalist and deeply inegalitarian society (conditions that amount to what Elizabeth Anderson terms ‘private government’). [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 4:00 am
As discussed in an ACLU press release on the decision:The judge ... called for alterations that would:Clarify the authority of an individual outside the NYPD (a civilian representative) to ensure the NYPD’s compliance with the “Handschu Guidelines” — which govern NYPD surveillance of political and religious activity — even beyond the terms of the reforms proposed by the settlement.Require that the civilian representative established by the… [read post]
9 Dec 2015, 4:10 am
The class action lawsuit against the FBI and FBI agents alleges that the government wrongfully spied on mainstream mosques in Southern California and targeted Muslims for surveillance because of their religion. [read post]
24 Jul 2013, 2:07 pm
What started out as a secret court that assessed government requests to spy on specific people, groups, or facilities turned into a secret kangaroo court that approved mass surveillance programs that sweep up the communications of millions of Americans, without any reason to suspect that 99.9% of them are connected in any way to any wrongdoing. [read post]
20 Jul 2014, 1:12 pm
Arnbak, Axel and Goldberg, Sharon, Loopholes for Circumventing the Constitution: Warrantless Bulk Surveillance on Americans by Collecting Network Traffic Abroad (June 27, 2014). [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 1:27 pm
Over the past decade, video surveillance has exploded. [read post]
10 Aug 2020, 1:51 pm
RAND Brief via Mary Whisner – Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone–Enhanced Surveillance Programs [PDF only] by Benjamin Boudreaux, Matthew A. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 8:55 am
The Senate passed an identical measure Tuesday night, and Congress will use the next three months to consider a longer extension and increased oversight of government surveillance. [read post]
25 Sep 2016, 2:26 pm
Washington Post – This judge just released 200 secret government surveillance requests “U.S. [read post]
9 May 2015, 7:08 pm
She and her colleagues had covered encrypted browsers, tracking, mobile security, surveillance laws, and what to do if federal agents show up with a letter from the government demanding library records. [read post]
