Having scrapped a late-night vote on the legislation just hours earlier, House leadership on Thursday abandoned efforts to pass a bill extending three provisions of a controversial surveillance law.
Read morePakistan’s intelligence services are deploying secretive surveillance technology used to locate terrorists to track coronavirus patients and the people they come into contact with.
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Hours ahead of an anticipated Wednesday night vote on a controversial surveillance law, bipartisan concerns now threaten to capsize reauthorization efforts that have been in the works for months.
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Germany’s foreign intelligence service violated the constitution by spying on internet data from foreigners abroad, the nation’s top court ruled Tuesday in a victory for overseas journalists who brought the case.
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The Senate voted 80-16 on Thursday to revive provisions in a Watergate-era federal surveillance law that had expired in March after Congress left Washington due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreAfter a four-year legal battle, a federal judge in California ruled that Twitter cannot release a transparency report describing the extent of surveillance requests it received from the government, including national security letters and orders under the Foriegn Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Read moreTwo Baltimore political activists and a for-profit police reform think tank sued the Baltimore Police Department to stop a planned aerial surveillance system targeting car-jackers and murderers.
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The Justice Department’s inspector general reported Tuesday that his investigative team uncovered errors in dozens of FBI applications to a secret surveillance court as part of an expanded investigation that started with a look at the probe of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Read moreAn appeals court in Florida ruled that a provision in a contract between AirBnB and vacation renters did not unequivocally dictate that only an arbitrator, and not a judge, could decide the issue of arbitrability. The renters sued AirBnB after discovering the owner of the condominium they rented had hidden cameras throughout the property, which recorded “some private and intimate interactions” during their stay.
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The case against Nassif Sami Daher and Kamel Mohammad Rammal, two Michigan men accused of food stamp fraud, hardly seemed exceptional. But the tool that agents used to investigate them was extraordinary: a secretive surveillance process intended to identify potential spies and terrorists.
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With a March 15 deadline looming, the House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would extend controversial provisions of a sweeping surveillance law for three years.
Read morePatrick Eddington, with the Cato Institute, sued the FBI for information on Operation Vulgar Betrayal, its surveillance of “mosques, schools, and community meetings in Bridgeview, Illinois,” in a federal FOIA complaint.
Read moreA Christian pastor who ministers to immigrants and refugees failed to obtain a court order that would have prevented the government from continuing to monitor her activities along the U.S.-Mexico border and in New York.
Read moreA federal class action claims that Clearview AI violated civil rights and privacy by creating a “massive surveillance state” by scraping faces from websites and selling the data to law enforcement and other agencies.A federal class action claims that Clearview AI violated civil rights and privacy by creating a “massive surveillance state” by scraping faces from websites and selling the data to law enforcement and other agencies.
Read moreJudicial Watch sued the State Department in federal court for information on its use of the CrowdTangle social media monitoring program to surveil journalists and former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.
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Ukraine said Thursday it had launched an investigation into alleged illegal surveillance of former U.S. ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, who is now a key figure in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry.
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Germany’s highest court is considering imposing stricter limits on the activities of the country’s foreign intelligence agency.
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From the face scanner that will check in some attendees to the cameras-everywhere array of digital products, the CES gadget show is all-in on surveillance technology — whether it calls it that or not
Read moreRing LLC and its corporate parent Amazon.com sell defective home security video/microphone systems that are subject to hacking, and malicious hackers have used it to “invade the privacy of customers’ homes and terrorize unsuspecting occupants, many of whom are children,” a class action claims in federal court.
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