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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]
9 Dec 2009, 5:28 pm
ABOVE: Amir Ardebili captured on surveillance video in Tbilsi, Georgia Amir Hossein Ardebili, an Iranian national, engaged in extensive negotiations from Iran and apparently on behalf of the Iranian government to export defense items from the United States to Iran. [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]
4 May 2008, 4:22 am
By preëmptively freezing a suspect's assets, "the government does not have to watch these dollars [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 6:25 am
This distracts us from real-world solutions to the problems of online hate speech, disinformation and surveillance capitalism. [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 2:04 am
The department used investigators in clandestine surveillance operations to verify claims from miners who say they have suffered illnesses from working down the pits. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 12:30 pm
"House Passes New Surveillance Bill": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "The House on Friday narrowly approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States. [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]
8 Oct 2007, 7:11 am
[JURIST] The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) [official website] will not investigate allegations made last year that several large telephone companies handed over customer phone records to the government as part of the domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA), according to a letter [PDF text; press release] from FCC Chairman [read post]
7 Feb 2003, 8:20 pm
[JURIST] The Center for Public Integrity released Friday a hitherto-confidential Department of Justice analysis of a potential Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 [PDF text] which would significantly extend domestic intelligence, surveillance and law enforcement prerogatives granted to the government by the USA Patriot Act of 2001 while limiting public disclosure and judicial review. [read post]
11 Feb 2006, 7:35 am
[JURIST] The criminal investigation into government leaks which led to the New York Times' disclosure [JURIST report] of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program [JURIST archive] is expanding, as federal agents have increased the number of interviews of law enforcement and national security officials. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 10:19 am
The government has dismissed these concerns and clarified that the measures being proposed are not aimed at general surveillance,... [read post]
20 Feb 2006, 12:24 am
[JURIST] Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) [official website] said Sunday that existing legislation governing domestic surveillance [JURIST news archive] does not need to be rewritten or updated. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 5:27 am
"Dismissal of Lawsuit Against Warrantless Wiretaps Sought": The Washington Post today contains an article that begins, "A lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program should be thrown out because the government is now conducting the wiretaps under the authority of a secret intelligence court, according to court papers filed by the Justice Department yesterday. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 5:05 pm
The issue was examined in a new paper, "The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance", by Paul Ohm, a former Justice Department official who now is a professor of law at the University of Colorado.Read the article: The New York Times [read post]
19 Jul 2008, 5:09 am
[JURIST] The Malawi [government website; BBC country profile] state security organization has put under surveillance the three-judge panel determining whether former President Bakili Muluzi [BBC profile] is eligible to run for another term as president, according to a Friday report by the Nyasa Times. [read post]
16 Oct 2011, 10:45 am
The public condemnation was swift and strong, renewing a national debate into how far the government can intrude into digital privacy. [read post]
10 Feb 2006, 7:12 am
Instead of immediately repealing it, however, he gave the government six months to replace it, declaring that having no law regarding covert [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]
2 Dec 2011, 5:23 am
. “A bill that would restrict U.S. exports of technology that can be used by repressive regimes to censor the Internet or conduct surveillance on users will be introduced in the House soon. [read post]
