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Further, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression has demonstrated that surveillance through spyware by authoritarian governments can enable arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings. [read post]
23 May 2014, 9:44 am by aallwash
In the eleven months since the Edward Snowden leaks shed light on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) secret spying practices, the political tide has clearly shifted against government surveillance. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 10:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Wall Street Journal has been litigating in Texas to gain access to sealed, federal judicial orders granting the government electronic surveillance authority, the paper reported today ("Long-term secrecy surrounds electronic monitoring," Oct. 1). [read post]
2 Mar 2023, 12:51 pm by Matthew Guariglia
Specifically, the office of the Inspector General found that these agencies did not adhere to federal privacy policy governing the use of CSS and failed to obtain special orders required before using these types of surveillance devices. [read post]
9 Jun 2025, 1:37 pm by Matthew Guariglia
There also is a long law enforcement’s history of harassing and surveilling people for publicly criticizing or opposing law enforcement practices and other government policies. [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 8:21 am by Frank Pasquale
Like the data mining they employ, the NSA surveillance programs are hard to govern democratically (or cabin legally) because of the speed, scale, and secrecy of the problems they address. [read post]
22 Feb 2014, 12:38 pm by Nadia Kayyali
But in the case of government surveillance, the fault does not lie with lawyers, it lies with the NSA. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 11:48 am by Karen Gullo
“The Ninth Circuit decision marked a new low in judicial deference to government demands for secrecy because of national security,” said EFF Surveillance Litigation Director Andrew Crocker. [read post]
25 Dec 2021, 1:09 am by Dave Maass
In addition, UNR data journalism students and EFF interns acquired government surveillance datasets on body-worn cameras and other technologies, and converted them so that thousands of pieces of data could be added to the Atlas. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 9:36 am by aallwash
By Elizabeth In the wake of the disclosure of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will review the government’s classification systems, the agency recently announced in a letter to two members of Congress. [read post]
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8 Oct 2018, 3:30 am by Tom Simmons
Continue reading "Privacy and Surveillance in Nursing Homes"The post Privacy and Surveillance in Nursing Homes appeared first on Jotwell. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 12:01 pm by Richard Forno
She argued that government surveillance practices have the unfortunate consequence of silently telling citizens what aspects of privacy they should value versus what they are legally entitled to. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 2:38 pm by Mark M. Jaycox
Rick Larsen and Justin Amash: The Government Surveillance Transparency Act of 2013 A bill by Reps. [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 7:14 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
This discriminatory profiling and the harms it has caused our clients violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, and the First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion and guarantee of government neutrality toward religion. [read post]
7 Oct 2024, 1:07 pm by Svea Windwehr
  Biometric surveillance   The German government wants to allow law enforcement authorities to identify suspects by comparing their biometric data (audio, video, and image data) to all data publicly available on the internet. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 11:35 am by Cindy Cohn
  It shouldn't get fooled again by government claims of “legality” of mass surveillance. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 9:59 am
Vice President Dick Cheney blocked the promotion of a Justice Department lawyer in retaliation for his role in a review of a government surveillance program that led to the Intensive Care Unit Showdown, where then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andrew Card attempted to persuade a post-op John Ashcroft to give legal cover to the government's secret domestic spying program, according to written answers provided to Congress by former Deputy… [read post]