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8 Jul 2013, 5:26 am by David Oscar Markus
Most hail from districts outside the capital and come in rotating shifts to hear surveillance applications; a single judge signs most surveillance orders, which totaled nearly 1,800 last year. [read post]
17 Aug 2021, 12:51 pm by Joe Mullin
  Apple’s surveillance plans don’t account for abusive parents, much less authoritarian governments that will push to expand it. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 4:21 pm by Katitza Rodriguez and Parker Higgins
The UN High Commissioner on Human Rights has released an excellent report today on the right to privacy in the digital age, blasting the digital mass surveillance that has been taking place, unchecked, by the U.S., the U.K, and other world governments. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 8:47 am by Neil Schoenherr
The post New rules needed to govern consumer privacy appeared first on The Source. [read post]
21 May 2012, 2:31 pm by Timothy B. Lee
The Obama administration has argued that because none of the plaintiffs can prove that their communications were intercepted by any of the government's secret surveillance programs, they lack standing to challenge the legislation that authorizes them. [read post]
18 Mar 2014, 9:02 am by Jen Lynch and Jennifer Lynch
The government also argued it was entitled to withhold names of ISPs that had helped it conduct surveillance because it would hurt these companies’ bottom line if their customers knew they were working with the government. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 12:46 pm
Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee, subpoenaed documents about the government's warrantless wiretapping program from the White House, the Vice President's office, the Justice Department and the National Security Council Wednesday in an effort to learn more about the scope and legal justification for the surveillance program that was first disclosed in December 2005 by the New York Times. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 4:11 am by J. Adam Engel
Davis argues that cell phone and credit card users have a reasonable expectation of privacy to be free from real-time government surveillance through data kept by third-party providers. [read post]
14 May 2015, 7:44 am by aallwash
By Elizabeth Holland The House of Representatives voted 338 to 88 to pass the USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 2048) on Wednesday, taking an important step forward to restrict overbroad government surveillance in advance of the June 1 expiration of USA PATRIOT Act provisions. [read post]
13 Apr 2025, 7:29 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
ICM was created by Palantir, the powerful and controversial surveillance and data management company. [read post]
15 Mar 2016, 3:37 pm by Cyrus Farivar
Last month, the government obtained an unprecedented court order under the All Writs Act, an obscure 18th-Century statute, which would compel Apple to assist in the government's investigation. [read post]
18 Jul 2023, 4:44 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
From The Electronic Frontier Foundation, via NACDL's news update: U.S. government intelligence agencies are buying data about us. [read post]
10 Jun 2020, 3:35 pm by Matt Cagle
Building a surveillance apparatus this big would have severe consequences — chilling demonstrations, fueling a for-profit surveillance industry, and creating racist watchlists that governments and businesses will use for discriminatory ends.Microsoft’s legislative efforts are also deeply anti-activist and anti-democratic. [read post]
Edward Snowden's revelations have launched a historic debate about surveillance practices and democratic controls, in which all three branches of government are actively and publicly engaging. [read post]
—The term ‘specific selection term’ means a discrete term, such as a term specifically identifying a person, entity, account, address, or device, used by the Government to limit the scope of the information or tangible things sought pursuant to the statute authorizing the provision of such information or tangible things to the Government. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 8:30 am by azatty
” Also appearing will be artists Hasan Elahi, David Gurman and David Taylor; their work probes “electronic surveillance, terrorist profiling and classified government programs. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 8:30 am by azatty
” Also appearing will be artists Hasan Elahi, David Gurman and David Taylor; their work probes “electronic surveillance, terrorist profiling and classified government programs. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 5:14 am by SHG
  If there’s a general sense that the government is surveilling us, then “the market’s already discounted for any injury. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 11:03 am by Endalkachew Chala
” As part of its broader control mechanism, the Ethiopian government blocks blogs and websites that are critical of the government, uses expensive surveillance software to spy on its own citizens both at home and abroad, and prosecutes bloggers for using encryption tools. [read post]
26 May 2020, 3:49 pm by India McKinney
A savings clause in the expired law gives intelligence agencies some, limited ongoing ability to use the authority, and  the government has plenty of other surveillance tools at its disposal. [read post]