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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]
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]
29 Aug 2012, 9:03 am by Zoe Tillman
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]
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]
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 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]
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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]
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]
19 May 2023, 9:39 am by Matthew Guariglia
On May 20, 2013, a young government contractor with an EFF sticker on his laptop disembarked a plane in Hong Kong carrying with him evidence confirming, among other things, that the United States government had been conducting mass surveillance on a global scale. [read post]
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]
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]
28 Apr 2014, 5:16 pm by Eva Galperin
" Since their formation in 2012, the Zone Nine bloggers have been vocal in their critique of government policy and practice, especially the growing role of government surveillance and ever-worsening crackdowns on independent media and free expression. [read post]
1 Oct 2009, 7:44 am
  The letter, which was publicly released yesterday by the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee, could have broad implications as state and local finances continue to plummet during the recession. [read post]
10 Sep 2011, 8:48 pm
They say the Fourth Amendment’s promise of protection from government invasion of privacy is in danger of being replaced by the futuristic surveillance state Orwell described. [read post]