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31 Dec 2011, 8:20 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Thursday unanimously ruled [opinion, PDF] that a law granting immunity from civil suits for telecommunications companies that assist government intelligence agencies is constitutional. [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]
21 Feb 2007, 11:12 am
[JURIST] US District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker issued an order [PDF] Tuesday imposing a limited stay on discovery in a class action lawsuit [EFF case backgrounder; JURIST report] challenging the legality of the Bush administration's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive], despite the government's request [PDF text] to stay discovery pending the outcome of an appeal to the US [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]
1 Oct 2015, 11:03 am
” 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]
4 Nov 2014, 1:59 pm
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24 Jun 2020, 8:04 am
The planes are typically registered to front companies to hide their identities as government planes. [read post]
15 May 2014, 7:14 am
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18 Jul 2014, 2:23 pm
NSA, one of our ongoing lawsuits against mass surveillance. [read post]
16 Oct 2019, 1:46 pm
Berkeley’s ban on face recognition is an important step toward curtailing the government’s use of biometric surveillance. [read post]
29 Dec 2021, 2:22 am
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to Hear Police Surveillance Case Under the Fourth Amendment and the United States Supreme Court precedent, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy from government intrusion that all Americans enjoy. [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 10:32 am
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Its Regime of Secrecy Passed in 1978, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) dictates how the government conducts physical and electronic surveillance for national security purposes against “foreign powers” and “agents of foreign powers. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 9:46 pm
Now France's government is about the make the same error as US practice with its new "Surveillance des communications électroniques internationales" bill, currently being rushed through the French Parliament. [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 3:30 pm
As part of that mission, the board has issued several significant oversight reports addressing government surveillance. [read post]
11 Jul 2024, 2:00 am
Additionally, when it comes to surveilling Americans, there is already a history of law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ abuse of surveillance programs that give the government the right to collect private information from American citizens. [read post]
11 Feb 2015, 9:48 am
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows courts to examine secret evidence that is necessary to determine whether surveillance conducted by the government was done legally. [read post]
16 Sep 2018, 9:48 am
They include: Disincentive for vulnerability disclosure Cultivation of a market for surveillance tools Attackers co-opt hacking tools over which governments have lost control Attackers learn of vulnerabilities through government use of malware Government incentives to push for less-secure software and standards Government malware affects innocent users. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 9:03 am
A federal district judge in Washington tossed a lawsuit (PDF) yesterday that accused Bank of America of putting customers' financial data at risk of surveillance by the U.S. government by diverting service calls overseas. [read post]
6 Aug 2020, 11:38 am
This rule furthers the work begun previously of separating the federal government and its contractors from certain Chinese telecom and video surveillance companies. [read post]
26 Oct 2016, 11:17 am
The Patriot Act is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to troubling, privacy-invasive government surveillance authorities – Although the Patriot Act, along with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, have been at the center of recent years’ debates over government surveillance and privacy concerns, the law is only one of many things the government cites when justifying its surveillance. [read post]
