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5 Jul 2007, 11:48 am
This puts the burden squarely back on Congress to get the full story about the government's surveillance programs and ensure that the President is not left to operate outside the system of checks and balances. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 11:46 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] asked a federal district judge Thursday to block New Jersey, Vermont, Maine, Missouri, and Connecticut from investigating potential violations of state consumer privacy laws in the controversial warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive], arguing that the state secrets privilege doctrine bars the state governments [read post]
31 Dec 2013, 11:14 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] on Monday announced that they had filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF; press release] under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [DOJ backgrounder] seeking information on the extent of governmental use and interpretation of Executive Order 12,333 [federal backgrounder], which permits US government surveillance abroad to protect national security. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 2:21 pm
The government is seeking a $1B contract for the database, and it is not limited to criminals. [read post]
27 May 2008, 8:14 pm
It’s this kind of mindless sleepwalking into a surveillance society that reminds me of Orwells 1984. [read post]
16 Feb 2007, 1:56 am
Haight ruled [opinion, PDF; ACLU-NY press release] Thursday that the New York Police Department (NYPD) [official website] must stop its practice of videotaping lawful public gatherings and preserving the videotapes and adhere to the so-called "Modified Handschu Guidelines" developed by prior court rulings, which govern police surveillance. [read post]
18 Jan 2014, 4:58 am
[JURIST] In a speech [transcript] Friday, US President Barack Obama [official website] announced detailed plans to change surveillance policy, curbing the abilities of intelligence agencies to collect and use American phone data. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 9:13 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] is expected to decide this week if a bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive] will grant immunity from prosecution to telecommunications companies [JURIST report] that assisted in government eavesdropping between 2001 and 2007. [read post]
8 Feb 2006, 5:42 am
Heather Wilson [official website] (R-NM), chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence [official website] has called for a complete review of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text], which governs the monitoring of phone calls within the United States for national security reasons, so that proper congressional oversight may be [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 10:36 am
Among other provisions, the Investigatory Powers Act [official website] allows the government to record the Internet history of every UK citizen for up to a year. [read post]
28 Sep 2006, 3:29 pm
[JURIST] US District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor on Thursday rejected the Bush Administration's proposal to continue its domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive; US DOJ fact sheet, PDF] while her August 17 decision [opinion, PDF] finding the program unconstitutional and ordering its shutdown is being appealed, but did allow the program to continue for one more week to allow the government [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 8:22 am
Judge Vaughn Walker found in March that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] warrantless wiretapping program violated the rights of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation [JURIST news archive] under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance... [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 6:30 am
" The commission urged European governments to enact [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 3:06 am
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Thursday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] challenging amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive] that expand government power to eavesdrop on overseas conversations. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 9:15 pm
What if it were a crime to walk down city streets taking roundabout paths so as not to be filmed by official surveillance cameras? [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 12:51 pm
Judge Richard Leon ruled in a lawsuit [JURIST report] brought by activist attorney and former government prosecutor Larry Klayman. [read post]
20 Mar 2006, 1:31 am
[JURIST] In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks [JURIST news archive], US government lawyers discussed ways to search the homes and businesses of suspected terrorists without court approval at the same time they debated warrantless electronic surveillance [JURIST news archive], according to a report in the current issue of US News & World Report. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 7:11 am
By 213-197 [roll call] House Democrats pushed through new surveillance regulations [HR 3773 text as amended; summary] that would extend government power to eavesdrop on individuals within the [read post]
2 Aug 2007, 6:03 am
[JURIST] The US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [court rules, PDF; official backgrounder] restricted the government's monitoring of e-mail and telephone conversations of suspected terrorists in foreign countries in a ruling publicly disclosed Thursday. [read post]
23 May 2017, 3:13 pm
— A challenge to the government’s practice of collecting certain internet communications can move forward, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. [read post]
