Category «Civil Liberties»

“Leahy Law” Human Rights Provisions and Security Assistance: Issue Overview

CRS – “Leahy Law” Human Rights Provisions and Security Assistance: Issue Overview. Nina M. Serafino, Coordinator, Specialist in International Security Affairs; June S. Beittel, Analyst in Latin American Affairs; Lauren Ploch Blanchard, Specialist in African Affairs; Liana Rosen, Analyst in International Crime and Narcotics. January 29, 2014. “Congressional interest in the laws and processes involved in conditioning U.S. assistance to foreign …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Defense, Government Documents, Legislation

Women in Science and Technology: What Does the Literature Say?

Inter-American Development Bank – Women in Science and Technology: What Does the Literature Say? Tacsir, Ezequiel; Grazzi, Matteo; Castillo, Rafael. Feb 2014 “Skill gaps are a key constraint to innovation, hindering productivity growth and economic development. In particular, shortages in the supply of trained professionals in disciplines related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) may weaken the innovation potential …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

EFF – A Massive Expansion of Plate Data Collection

National License Plate Recognition Database: What It Is and Why It’s a Bad Idea: “…Automated License Plate Reader or ALPR cameras already scan and record the plates of millions of cars across the country. Law enforcement agencies in large metropolitan areas like Los Angeles and New York have databases of millions of plates—and these databases will only increase in size …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Privacy, Transportation

Handbook on European data protection law

“This handbook is designed to familiarise legal practitioners who are not specialised in the field of data protection with this area of law. It provides an overview of the EU’s and the CoE’s applicable legal frameworks. The rapid development of information and communication technologies underscores the growing need for the robust protection of personal data – …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, EU Data Protection, Intellectual Property, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Doctoral Candidate Publishes The Color of Corporate Corrections, Part II

Via Moyers and Company: “It’s well known that people of color are overrepresented in America’s prisons relative to their share of the population. But a recent study finds that they make up an even larger share of the populations of private, for-profit prisons than publicly run institutions. According to Christopher Petrella, a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley who …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

North Korea: UN Commission documents wide-ranging and ongoing crimes against humanity

UN Commission on Human Rights – “A wide array of crimes against humanity, arising from “policies established at the highest level of State,” have been committed and continue to take place in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, according to a UN report released Monday, which also calls for urgent action by the international community …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

Report to the National Football League concerning issues of workplace conduct at the Miami Dolphins

NFL Press release on the Well Report and the text of the entire 144 page report. “On November 6, 2013, the National Football League announced that Ted Wells and the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP had been retained to direct an independent investigation into workplace conduct at the Miami Dolphins …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Legal Research

Snowden Leaked Documents Reveal NSA Monitoring of Global Law Firm

James Risen reported from Washington, and Laura Poitras from Berlin. Charlie Savage contributed reporting from Washington: “The list of those caught up in the global surveillance net cast by the National Security Agency and its overseas partners, from social media users to foreign heads of state, now includes another entry: American lawyers. A top-secret document, obtained by the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Patriot Act, Poetry

Reporters Without Borders Releases Press Freedom Index

“Reporters Without Borders today released its 2014 World Press Freedom Index, spotlighting major declines in media freedom in such varied countries as the United States, Central African Republic, and Guatemala while noting marked improvements in Ecuador, Bolivia, and South Africa. The same trio of Finland, Netherlands, and Norway heads the index again, while Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet

ICE Success in Obtaining Removal Orders Drops to 50%

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has had diminishing success in convincing Immigration Judges to issue removal orders. Such orders are now granted only about 50 percent of the time, the lowest level since systematic tracking began more than 20 years ago. For years, the rate at which removal orders were granted in response to DHS …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research

Report – Democracy in Crisis: Corruption, Media, and Power in Turkey

A Freedom House Special Report, February 2014: “Turkey’s government is improperly using its leverage over media to limit public debate about government actions and punish journalists and media owners who dispute government claims, deepening the country’s political and social polarization, Freedom House concludes in a report issued on February 3. “The government must recognize that its efforts to control a …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Government Documents

Leaked Documents Reveal Government Cyber Attacks on Hactivists

NBC News – MARK SCHONE, RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE AND GLENN GREENWALD: “Secret British spy unit created to mount cyber attacks on Britain’s enemies has waged war on the hacktivists of Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documents taken from the National Security Agency by Edward Snowden and obtained by NBC News. The blunt instrument the spy unit …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Defense, E-Government, Internet, PC Security, Privacy

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