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The Libertarian Party was among the first groups to join a broad and growing coalition of organizations operating under the umbrella Stop Watching Us, which aims to stop the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans. (lp.org)
Another point is that while it was easy to establish the jurisdiction of the EU court over data transfers from Europe to Facebook's servers in the US, it may be much harder to bring a case before that court concerning "upstream" methods of mass surveillance, such as the NSA's tapping of transatlantic fiber optic telecommunications cables. (justsecurity.org)
You've heard of the NSA's numerous - and likely unconstitutional - mass surveillance programs, but they're not the only way government is invading your digital privacy. (redstate.com)
In many ways, this privacy violation is even worse than the NSA's surveillance programs, as it allows federal prosecutors and regulators to get their hands on the contents of Americans' emails. (redstate.com)

It remains to be seen whether the guardian of the latter framework, the European Court of Human Rights, will also be courageous enough to determine that indiscriminate mass surveillance that provides access to "content" data breaches the essential core of the right to privacy. (justsecurity.org)
The bill enables the indiscriminate mass surveillance of millions of individuals in France and abroad, with no mechanism for independent oversight and judicial control. (accessnow.org)
The UK's bulk surveillance regime is similarly seen by the AG to fail the core "general and indiscriminate collection" test. (techcrunch.com)

In addition to human rights issues, it is the reliance of these laws on the private sector to conduct mass surveillance on the government's behalf which could prove to be their undoing. (opendemocracy.net)
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a markup of the USA Freedom Act on Wednesday, a surprising and sudden move that may be a counter to plans the House Intelligence Committee has to push forward a competing bill that privacy advocates say would not go far enough to curb the government's sweeping surveillance programs. (nextgov.com)
The Democrat controlled US House of Representatives just voted 253-175 against a bipartisan amendment that would have finally reined in some of the government's most egregious mass surveillance practices. (fightforthefuture.org)
Millions of people have spoken out against the US government's mass surveillance programs in recent years, but Congress has failed to act. (fightforthefuture.org)

The ruling in ACLU v. Clapper is enormously significant, and not only because the program in question - the first to be revealed by Edward Snowden - is at the heart of a legislative reform effort playing out right now, or because it sparked the most significant debate about government surveillance in decades. (aclu.org)
After today's decision came down, he took to the floor to defend the program - a position altogether at odds with the appeals court decision, with the conclusions of multiple executive-branch review groups who found the program hasn't been effective in stopping terrorism, and with the clear consensus that supports far-reaching surveillance reform. (aclu.org)
Some Judiciary members--who are among the most vocal critics on the NSA in Congress--said they were being intentionally sidelined after the House parliamentarian gave primary jurisdiction of a another surveillance reform bill to the Intelligence Committee instead of Judiciary. (nextgov.com)
The Wikimedia Foundation joins groups like Amnesty International USA, Human Rights Watch, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers in challenging the way the NSA has interpreted a 2008 law amending the famous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, the bedrock of American surveillance reform. (dailydot.com)
So in the wake of so much hubbub over the final passage of the USA Freedom Act, now that certain dust has settled and there has been time to parse the votes, we contacted Digital Fourth President Alex Marthews-not only for his expert perspective, but for his group's statistical tracking of Congressmembers on surveillance reform issues. (digboston.com)
With] the 114th Congress … we were able to determine for everybody a good measure of where they stood [on surveillance reform]. (digboston.com)
For Moulton, this may relate to his military background, and for Kennedy, this may point to his having higher aspirations for office someday … [Congresswoman Katherine] Clarke has gone in a very different direction, and she has voted at more or less every turn she could to strengthen surveillance reform. (digboston.com)
I think it's clear that this is not a core issue for Elizabeth Warren, or that she doesn't perceive it as a core issue, and that she's really focused on economic issues and financial reform, and she is not strongly motivated where it comes to the surveillance state. (digboston.com)
A secondary insight, given how split Democrats are over these issues nationally (at least during Democratic administrations), is that all of the Democratic candidates in MA-5 are willing to commit to at least some meaningful reform of surveillance abuses. (bluemassgroup.com)
Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian was willing to commit to vote for the Amash-Conyers Amendment to rein in the NSA, and to require a warrant for electronic communications, and Sen. Will Brownsberger was willing to oppose the expansion of electronic wiretapping in Massachusetts and also to explore broader NSA reform and consider voting for it depending on the outcome of a robust public debate. (bluemassgroup.com)

In a landmark victory for privacy, a federal appeals court ruled unanimously today that the mass phone-records program exposed two years ago by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is illegal because it goes far beyond what Congress ever intended to permit when it passed Section 215 of the Patriot Act. (aclu.org)
As the global debate over the intelligence programs revealed by Edward Snowden approaches its first anniversary, ARTICLE 19 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today published a new legal analysis of the Necessary & Proportionate Principles , a guiding framework for countries to apply international human rights law to communications surveillance. (article19.org)
After Edward Snowden exposed the mass surveillance practices of the US intelligence services in 2013, personal data protection has taken a prominent position in the legal systems of various jurisdictions, including the European Union. (lu.se)

In 2013, the practice of mass surveillance by world governments was called into question after Edward Snowden's 2013 global surveillance disclosure on the practices by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. (wikipedia.org)
GENEVA (16 July 2014) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned Wednesday that studies by her office and others have revealed a "disturbing" lack of transparency about governmental surveillance policies and practices, "including de facto coercion of private sector companies to provide sweeping access to information and data relating to private individuals without the latter's knowledge or consent. (ohchr.org)
The report, entitled "The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age" warns that Governmental mass surveillance is "emerging as a dangerous habit rather than an exceptional measure" and that practices in many States reveal "a lack of adequate national legislation and/or enforcement, weak procedural safeguards, and ineffective oversight. (ohchr.org)
Almost a year after the Snowden revelations, little to no progress has been made in ensuring that surveillance practices meet international legal standards. (article19.org)

And yet, new extended surveillance powers, more intrusive and extensive than anything contemplated by the last Labour government, are now enacted. (opendemocracy.net)
The secret nature of specific surveillance powers brings with it a greater risk of arbitrary exercise of discretion which, in turn, demands greater precision in the rule governing the exercise of discretion, and additional oversight. (ohchr.org)
Israel's police are seeking new powers that would allow greater surveillance without requiring warrants. (electronicintifada.net)
Hence, in recent years, we've seen attempts by certain EU Member States to create national frameworks which effectively rubberstamp swingeing surveillance powers - that then, in turn, invite legal challenge under EU law. (techcrunch.com)
Who are the U.S. senator, the state lawmaker and the state judge that the FBI improperly used their surveillance powers against? (boingboing.net)

Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens. (wikipedia.org)
According to yet another new analysis of the papers-this time by England's The Guardian-spy agencies in multiple nations collaborate with privately run telecommunications companies to gather data on private citizens on a mass scale. (slashgear.com)
Too little has been done to safeguard citizens' fundamental rights following revelations of electronic mass surveillance, say MEPs in a resolution voted on Thursday. (europa.eu)
This resolution, approved by 342 votes to 274, with 29 abstentions, takes stock of the (lack of) action taken by the European Commission, other EU institutions and member states on the recommendations set out by Parliament in its resolution of 12 March 2014 on the electronic mass surveillance of EU citizens , drawn up in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations. (europa.eu)
Mass surveillance regimes in the UK, Belgium and France which require bulk collection of digital data for a national security purpose may be at least partially in breach of fundamental privacy rights of European Union citizens, per the opinion of an influential advisor to Europe's top court issued today. (techcrunch.com)
The Amash-Lofgren Amendment would have closed notorious loopholes in Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that the National Security Agency (NSA) has abused to conduct warrantless surveillance of American citizens' emails, SMS messages, and Internet activity. (fightforthefuture.org)

The public discussion of surveillance one year on from the Snowden revelations remains a search for the biggest sinner. (circleid.com)

Unlike the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program, the government insists that the program has been suspended since 2013, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represents the plaintiff. (courthousenews.com)
In Greater Boston, researchers at Digital Fourth, "the Massachusetts campaign to protect digital data from warrantless government surveillance," are on the front lines of perpetual state deception, often taking on the thankless task of deciphering reality through lies through and noise. (digboston.com)

Both the First and Fourth Amendment protect Americans from this kind of overreaching surveillance. (courthousenews.com)
This lawsuit aims to vindicate HRW's rights, and the rights of all Americans, to make calls overseas without being subject to government surveillance," EFF staff attorney Nate Cardozo said in a statement. (courthousenews.com)
The fact that mass spying on Americans isn t necessary to keep us safe is finally going mainstream. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
The Chinese regime exploited vulnerabilities in the global mobile telecommunications network to conduct "mass surveillance" on Americans, according to a recent report by a cyber research firm. (theepochtimes.com)
Frank also hailed Verint, an Israeli surveillance firm that, according to investigative journalist James Bamford, was contracted by the NSA to wiretap Americans . (electronicintifada.net)
Section 702's massive surveillance of Americans' online communications -- through our phones, emails, and text messages -- violates our civil liberties. (demandprogress.org)

They show that the NSA and its allies have been building a global surveillance infrastructure to 'master the internet' and spy on the world's communications. (sources.com)
The Upguard Cyber Risk Team has found three Department of Defense mass-storage "buckets" on Amazon that are world-viewable, containing 1.8 billion of social media posts that the DoD scraped from social media over 8 years as part of its global surveillance program. (boingboing.net)

Eric Geller is a politics reporter who focuses on cybersecurity, surveillance, encryption, and privacy. (dailydot.com)
The stated purpose of CISA is to allow companies to share information in real time about perceived hacking threats, but critics of the bill warn it's a legal framework for mass surveillance in cybersecurity clothing. (fsrn.org)

The surveillance of metadata tracks every instance in which we email, speak to, or communicate with someone online. (amnestyusa.org)
The President will still retain the power to authorize surveillance activities without having to answer to judicial review and the future of the country's bulk collection of metadata remains unclear. (amnestyusa.org)
By contrast, much of what's inspired so much outrage about NSA surveillance concerns access only to contact logs, times and dates of calls, and other metadata - not content. (redstate.com)
The program collects metadata and content as it travels across the fiber optic cables between the UK and U.S., whether or not the subject of surveillance is suspected of wrongdoing. (accessnow.org)

Surveillance drones manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Sky Sapience were also hot items on the LAPD tour. (electronicintifada.net)

New stories 'outing' countries and companies are great transparency and essential for healthy societies but they have a side effect that isn't so benign: they create an evergreen source of new justifications for security services to demand more money for a surveillance and counter-surveillance arms race. (circleid.com)
Examining surveillance through the lens of state obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) , the Special Rapporteur's report takes issue with the lack of authorizing surveillance legislation, the failure to respect the human rights of those located outside national boundaries, and the need for surveillance to be governed by principles of proportionality, necessity, oversight, judicial authorization, and transparency. (accessnow.org)
Steven Melendez of Fast Company reports on a new system from MIT researchers called Accountability of Unreleased Data for Improved Transparency, or AUDIT, which could help the public track police surveillance. (mit.edu)

The European Parliament's inquiry into Edward Snowden's revelations of electronic mass surveillance was the most comprehensive investigation completed to date. (europa.eu)
Therefore, the Max Schrems ruling is a huge blow to many of the current methods of electronic mass surveillance, including those practiced by the US and several European countries (including the United Kingdom). (justsecurity.org)

Depending on each nation's laws and judicial systems, the legality of and the permission required to engage in mass surveillance varies. (wikipedia.org)
The The Principle of Legality is found in his call for the "clarity and precision" of domestic legislation to provide notice of the application of surveillance laws. (accessnow.org)

There are three separate cases being brought against UK authorities, all of which stem from Edward Snowden's 2013 revelations about mass state surveillance around the world. (siliconrepublic.com)
In general, MEPs consider the Commission's response so far to Parliament's 2014 resolution "highly inadequate" given the extent of the revelations of mass surveillance. (europa.eu)
It is also worried by revelations of mass surveillance of telecommunications and internet traffic inside the EU by the German foreign intelligence agency BND in cooperation with the US National Security Agency (NSA). (europa.eu)
In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, however, and growing concern over mass surveillance efforts, a European court struck the rule down this past October. (theverge.com)

From 2000 to 2012, rising numbers of WHO member states began using rubella-containing vaccines (RCVs) in their immunization program and began reporting rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) surveillance data. (medscape.com)
Congenital rubella syndrome surveillance in Honduras. (medscape.com)

The Agency's second 'Surveillance by intelligence services: fundamental rights safeguards and remedies in the EU' report explores legal changes since its 2015 report and for the first time captures the views of intelligence experts and controllers themselves to see how these laws work in practice. (europa.eu)

The laws compel Internet service providers (ISPs) and other private sector organizations to collect communications data en masse from their networks. (opendemocracy.net)
These companies will have to commit to 'robust obligations' about how data is processed in order to keep it safe from mass surveillance and other potential violations of individual rights. (theverge.com)
Put simply, with the new Decree, the Peruvian government has shifted from surveillance of communications records based on individualized suspicion to the mass untargeted collection of communications data of ordinary, non-suspect people. (truthout.org)
On 6 Febuary, the LAPD group attended the Big Data Intelligence Conference in Herzliya, where officers salivated at the prospect of using invasive, abuse-prone Israeli surveillance products (used to control Palestinians) on the people of Los Angeles (the brown, black and politically active lefty ones, of course). (electronicintifada.net)
Had this occurred, unauthorized individuals could have been able to siphon off surveillance data. (sentinelone.com)
The key insight from this data is that we can roughly rank the candidates in terms of their level of opposition to the surveillance state. (bluemassgroup.com)
We have sought to assess the impact of this on road use fatalities by analysis of data captured by ongoing road traffic injury surveillance based in 5 city hospitals. (bmj.com)
Congress should do their job by defending the constitution and enacting comprehensive legislation to ban mass government spying, outlaw use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, and hold corporations accountable for collecting and misusing our data. (fightforthefuture.org)
Title : Injection of Methamphetamine Has Increased in Boston Massachusetts: 5 Waves of CDC State Surveillance Data Personal Author(s) : Streck, Joanna M.;Klevens, R. Monina;O'Cleirigh, Conall;Batchelder, Abigail W. (cdc.gov)

Bahrain was among the many countries listed as the Israeli firm's clients accused of hacking and conducting unauthorized mass surveillance using phone malware despite a poor human rights record. (wikipedia.org)
The HoverMast-100, an Israeli surveillance drone that the LAPD hopes to add to its arsenal. (electronicintifada.net)
Instead of stopping at the Western Wall or Yad Vesham as many foreign dignitaries do, officers visited Israel's private security firms and drone manufacturers, most of them formed by veterans of the Israeli military's top-secret 8200 Unit, which, like the US National Security Agency, engages in mass spying and cyber warfare . (electronicintifada.net)
Speaking to the Journal , Frank couldn't stop gushing about Israeli tech giants like Nice Systems, which is currently providing mass video surveillance at the Olympics , morphing Sochi into a virtual police state. (electronicintifada.net)

Klayman: Kavanaugh Forced to Change His Tune on 4th Amendment and Mass Surveillance! (freedomwatchusa.org)
But Kavanaugh's disavowal didn't win over attorneys who challenged the National Security Agency program, who say they remain concerned about his interpretation of the Fourth Amendment and his still-murky role in post-9/11 surveillance programs. (freedomwatchusa.org)

Privacy International's 2007 survey, covering 47 countries, indicated that there had been an increase in surveillance and a decline in the performance of privacy safeguards, compared to the previous year. (wikipedia.org)
This need for additional safeguards is clearly demonstrated by the way GCHQ, the U.K.'s surveillance headquarters, is operating. (amnestyusa.org)
As part of this ongoing process, Pillay's office on Wednesday published a report requested by the UN General Assembly in December 2013, which stresses the need for vigilance and procedural safeguards against governmental surveillance programmes. (ohchr.org)

The report included a list of "State Enemies of the Internet", countries whose governments are involved in active, intrusive surveillance of news providers, resulting in grave violations of freedom of information and human rights. (wikipedia.org)
Bahrain is one of the five countries on Reporters Without Borders' March 2013 list of "State Enemies of the Internet", countries whose governments are involved in active, intrusive surveillance of news providers, resulting in grave violations of freedom of information and human rights. (wikipedia.org)

Parliament is concerned about "recent laws in some member states that extend surveillance capabilities of intelligence bodies", including in France, the UK and the Netherlands. (europa.eu)
Whether your mission is locating illegals attempting to cross your border, crowd control at a political rally , or perhaps increasing security at your local electricity plant, Sky Sapience's HoverMast-100, tethered hovering machine, combines engineering genius and innovative materials to provide exceptional observation and surveillance capabilities. (electronicintifada.net)

Blanket state surveillance sits very awkwardly over the complex, multi-layered and heavily infrastructuralised business networks which make up an industrial sector. (opendemocracy.net)

This is the recording of the online press briefing about mass surveillance as presented by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on 16 October 2017. (europa.eu)
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism, Ben Emmerson, released a report on October 15 critiquing mass surveillance of digital communications. (accessnow.org)
A multidisciplinary collaborative research project funded by the European Commission has led to the creation of a methodology that uses a nuanced approach for determining security benefits of surveillance technologies against financial costs, moral hazards and impact on fundamental rights. (lu.se)

The UK authorities said it carries out "bulk surveillance" rather than "mass surveillance" and insisted that it is a necessary procedure to locate unknown threats. (siliconrepublic.com)
The report addresses the well-known bulk surveillance programs operated by the U.S. and UK. (accessnow.org)

It implicates other mass spying programs that we have learned about in the past two years and - almost certainly -- others that the government continues to conceal from the public. (aclu.org)
This is not the first time that the UK government has proposed unworkable mass surveillance regulations involving the private sector. (opendemocracy.net)
Plaintiff's associations and human rights advocacy efforts, as well as those of its members and staff, are substantially burdened by the fact that the mass surveillance program creates a permanent government record of all plaintiff's telephone communications with contacts in the designated countries," the 18-page complaint states. (courthousenews.com)
How Did the Peruvian Government Legalize Mass Surveillance of Its People? (truthout.org)
Join us as we stand before Massachusetts lawmakers to say with one clear voice: We must Press Pause on government use of face surveillance technology. (aclum.org)
If the government wanted a particular set of records, it could tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court why - and then be granted permission to access those records directly from specially maintained company servers. (bibliotecapleyades.net)
Show your determination to stop government surveillance and come to Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Oct. 26. (lp.org)
Again, it's not a stretch to imagine that a government-run surveillance program may become insecure. (sentinelone.com)
and finally, whether they would support Rep. Rush Holt (D-PA)'s "Surveillance State Repeal Act", which would repeal the PATRIOT Act and the FISA Amendments Act and provide protection for government whistleblowers. (bluemassgroup.com)
However, Rep. Sciortino, Mr. Long , and now also Sen. Spilka, stand out from the pack for their deep skepticism of government surveillance efforts. (bluemassgroup.com)
There, surveillance occurred even as government officials guaranteed there would be no mass surveillance . (accessnow.org)

The very existence of a mass surveillance programme…creates an interference with privacy. (ohchr.org)

China Unicom in a statement to The Epoch Times said it "strongly refutes the allegations that China Unicom has engaged in active surveillance attacks against U.S. mobile phone subscribers using access to international telecommunications networks. (theepochtimes.com)

The exact nature of the European flavor of mass spying is not entirely obvious, but it's clear all of the agencies mentioned in the analysis covertly tap fiber optic cables to conduct surveillance. (slashgear.com)
Klayman: Biden Obviously Delayed Shooting Down Spy Balloon Allowing ChiComs to Conduct Surveillance on U.S. Nuclear Missile Sites to Pay Back ChiComs for the Millions in Dollars of Bribes He Took Laundered Through His Son Hunter! (freedomwatchusa.org)

The UK GCHQ has been found to have used social media for its mass surveillance activities, according to documentation obtained by Privacy International publicised in October of this year. (siliconrepublic.com)
GCHQ evades legal scrutiny by outsourcing its surveillance operations to the USA, asking the National Security Agency (NSA) to do what it itself would never be able to do. (amnestyusa.org)

The court recognized that public, adversarial litigation concerning the lawfulness of this spying program was vitally important to its decision - and it drew a direct contrast to the secret, one-sided proceedings that occur in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. (aclu.org)
In addition, the compromise language would adopt new standards for national security letters, which are used by the FBI, and make the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court more transparent. (nextgov.com)
Sometime ago, the company received a secret order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. (sentinelone.com)

Perhaps most importantly, the substantive ruling in the Schrems case is formulated in a way that it would apply to any method of mass surveillance that gives public authorities access to the content of ordinary people's private communications, including communications intended for a group of people but not for the authorities. (justsecurity.org)

Fixing ECPA isn't a substitute for stopping blanket NSA surveillance, but it can actually happen this Congress - and it it would be the first major victory in a long fight to end unconstitutional mass surveillance. (redstate.com)

Speaking from the private jet and super yacht owners gathering, otherwise known as the COP 26 summit, Al Gore touted his latest solution to curb carbon emissions, mass surveillance via satellites, sensors and artificial intelligence. (sott.net)

Another criticism is that increasing mass surveillance could lead to the development of a surveillance state or an electronic police state where civil liberties are infringed or political dissent is undermined by COINTELPRO-like programs. (wikipedia.org)
It oversees a wide variety of broad surveillance programs without any public participation or input, approving a body of secret law that has no place in a democracy. (aclu.org)
But what has bothered me about the conversation to date is the way it has been framed by some defenders of mass surveillance programs. (amnestyusa.org)
The Freedom Act is sponsored by Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the one-time mastermind behind the post-9/11 Patriot Act, from which both the Obama and Bush administrations have derived much of the legal authority for their surveillance programs. (nextgov.com)

The absence of a coherent mass public transport system encourages the acquisition of inexpensive motorcycles for commuting and this has distorted the traffic mix. (bmj.com)

The technological platforms upon which global political, economic and social life are increasingly reliant are not only vulnerable to mass surveillance", the report says, "they may actually facilitate it. (ohchr.org)
From a neutral perspective, if you have no choice except to run a mass surveillance platform, it makes sense to ensure that the platform isn't vulnerable to hackers. (sentinelone.com)
Even if you're confident that you're not the kind of person who'd be targeted by mass surveillance, you're still vulnerable to an email-based breach. (sentinelone.com)

More than 400 organizations and 300,000 individuals have endorsed the principles, which articulate how unchecked surveillance power can threaten privacy, association and free expression. (article19.org)
The Principles spelled out just why mass surveillance was a violation of human rights, and gave sympathetic lawmakers and judges a list of fixes they could apply to the lawless Internet spooks. (sources.com)

New Zealand's spy agency watchdog is launching an investigation into the scope of the country's secret surveillance. (muslimvillage.com)

On 12 March 2013, Reporters Without Borders published a Special report on Internet Surveillance. (wikipedia.org)
The report states that while judicial involvement can help assess whether such surveillance meets the standards required by international human rights law, "judicial involvement in oversight should not be viewed as a panacea. (ohchr.org)
Openwashing Report: Mass Surveillance is Now. (techrights.org)
This report shows that mass surveillance laws must be overhauled as a matter of urgency. (article19.org)

The European Union is considering banning the use of artificial intelligence for a number of purposes, including mass surveillance and social credit scores. (theverge.com)

At the same time, mass surveillance has equally often been criticized for violating privacy rights, limiting civil and political rights and freedoms, and being illegal under some legal or constitutional systems. (wikipedia.org)
Guess again: There's a project in the works as the military and big business join forces to make privacy a thing of the past, according to Elliot D. Cohen, whose new book, "Mass Surveillance and State Control: The Total Information Awareness Project," is excerpted below. (truthdig.com)
Pillay said her Office has been working for over a year on the complex web of issues relating to the right to privacy in the face of modern digital technology and surveillance measures. (ohchr.org)
Thomas Hughes, Executive Director of ARTICLE 19, added: "Mass surveillance violates our rights to freedom of expression and privacy. (article19.org)
Let me add a different perspective: Irrespective of its consequences for Safe Harbor, last week's ruling is hugely important on a more general level, namely for the understanding of what the right to privacy entails in Europe and what this means for mass surveillance. (justsecurity.org)

It is possible, desirable and respectful of human rights to conduct targeted surveillance on identified suspects with independent judicial oversight. (opendemocracy.net)
Human Rights Watch filed a federal civil complaint Tuesday for violation of the First and Fourth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution challenging the "untargeted and suspicionless surveillance" of its call records without judicial oversight. (courthousenews.com)

One thing that surprised me was that there are people who vote very well on surveillance matters, and people who vote very poorly on surveillance matters, [and neither have] been very vocal or written about in the press [for those votes]. (digboston.com)

A computer workstation bears the National Security Agency (NSA) logo inside the Threat Operations Center inside the Washington suburb of Fort Meade, Maryland, intelligence gathering operation 25 January 2006 after US President George W. Bush delivered a speech behind closed doors and met with employees in advance of Senate hearings on the much-criticized domestic surveillance. (nationaljournal.com)
In several countries, judicial warranting or review of the digital surveillance activities of intelligence and/or law enforcement agencies have amounted effectively to an exercise in rubber-stamping," it states. (ohchr.org)
Once you get into the tens of thousands, the attacks qualify as mass surveillance, which is primarily for intelligence collection and not necessarily targeting high-profile targets," Miller said. (theepochtimes.com)

Bearing that in mind, we at Digital Fourth thought it pretty important to assess the Democratic candidates' positions on the hot issue of surveillance, while the district's registered Democrats still have a chance to affect the outcome. (bluemassgroup.com)

Many arguments against mass surveillance focus on human rights and the negative impacts on democracy. (thoughtworks.com)

A woman listens to speakers during the Stop Watching Us Rally protesting surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Photo Credit: Allison Shelley/Getty Images). (amnestyusa.org)
Nine organizations, including the company that runs Wikipedia , have joined together to sue the National Security Agency for operating its legally suspect mass surveillance program. (dailydot.com)

Lucky for us, there are surveillance reformers who are dedicated to preserving certain constitutional amendments that mobs of protesters in camouflage rarely vocally defend, but that we all defend in some sense every time that we get vocal. (digboston.com)

The ECHR is still applicable to the UK despite its decision to vote for Brexit in June 2016, and the court's judgments could mean major changes for how these surveillance operations will be carried out in future. (siliconrepublic.com)

These shady groups have undermined basic encryption standards, and riddled the Internet's backbone with surveillance equipment. (sources.com)

Specimens were submitted for whole genome sequencing§ public settings in areas where COVID-19 transmission is high to either the Massachusetts State Public Health Laboratory or substantial. (cdc.gov)

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