A federal court in Maryland ruled that certain plaintiffs who are included in the government’s Terrorism Screening Database and various related watchlists may pursue their Religious Freedom Restoration Act claims against the government.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit denied a petition for rehearing of unlawful search and discrimination claims brought by three Muslim residents of California who alleged the FBI used an informant to infiltrate several Los Angeles and Orange County mosques to “conduct a covert surveillance program that gathered information about Muslims based solely on their religious identity.”
Read moreA federal judge in California on Thursday refused to dismiss an Israeli software company from a lawsuit brought by Facebook-owned Whatsapp that claims the company used malware to spy on the messenger service’s users, particularly human rights advocates and journalists.
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An Israeli court has rejected a request to strip the controversial Israeli spyware firm NSO Group of its export license over the suspected use of the company’s technology in targeting journalists and dissidents worldwide.
Read moreNorth American Helicopter claims Southern California Edison Co. owes it hundreds of thousands of dollars for surveillance flights and photography to protect SCE against more giant judgments for devastating wildfires caused by its equipment.
Read moreThe University of California, Irvine sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in federal court for information on its $90 million Palantir surveillance, data mining and analysis systems.
Read moreAn entire regional chapter of Germany’s far-right AfD party has been placed under police surveillance because of its extremist tendencies, local authorities said Monday, as pressure against the anti-immigrant group mounted.
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IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business, saying it’s concerned about how the technology can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling.
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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.
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