In a lawsuit against Philadelphia, a woman claims one of its police officers stalked and sexually assaulted for 90 minutes while he was on duty — and that some of it was captured on surveillance video.
Read moreInvestigators once tasked with examining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy claim in court that the CIA won’t respond to requests for records it might have on covert surveillance of the investigators.
Read moreA federal judge has rejected the government’s push to forbid Twitter from publishing its own information on government surveillance, calling into question the constitutionality of blocking the company’s ability to do so.
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A Chicago-based police accountability group claims in court that the city’s police department has once again refused to hand over documents showing how it spent money from a secret fund of seized cash.
Read moreThe ex-wife and ex-mother-in-law of former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle claims in court he installed hidden cameras in private areas of their home in order to spy or peep on them, and that he showed the captured footage to others.
Read moreA journalist and documentary filmmaker sued the Justice Department for the release of FBI records about a surveillance program she says targeted Arab-American communities outside Chicago before 9/11.
Read moreStoking the Senate Judiciary Committee’s frustrations on Tuesday, intelligence experts had few answers to direct questions on reauthorizing a surveillance tool.
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The quality and accuracy of video footage depicting the 2012 shooting death of a teenage boy in Mexico by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was repeatedly questioned in Tucson federal court Thursday.
Read moreThe federal government is concealing a policy on when it must notify criminal defendants that evidence used against them was obtained through a secret government spying program, the American Civil Liberties Union claimed in court Wednesday.
Read moreA privacy-advocacy organization published several previously classified documents that shed light on the practices of a secretive but powerful federal court.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union’s latest bid to declassify a host of sensitive rulings by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court spurred a pointed rebuttal from Justice Department officials.
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Describing a shroud of secrecy over the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich, a Virginia-based group brought an open-records complaint against D.C.’s mayor and attorney general.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit on Tuesday revived Wikimedia’s challenge to the National Security Agency’s collection of “upstream” data under section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Read moreA group inspired by Black Lives Matter claims in a court complaint that New York City police are channeling the CIA to keep a lid on their monitoring of citizen protesters
Read moreEven trains are spying on us now, a woman claims in a federal class action accusing the Bay Area Rapid Transit District of tracking passengers’ movements by duping them into downloading a seemingly benign crime-reporting app.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed a class action lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Facebook of spying on users who visit major cancer organization websites.
Read moreIn a win for government-transparency advocates, the FBI has agreed to turn over records it created when it spied on two anti-war journalists and pay $299,000 to settle their attorneys’ fees.
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