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Press release: “The lawsuit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by the national ACLU and its affiliates in Florida, Georgia, Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania and Washington. The lawsuit charges that the Defense Department is refusing to comply with national Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests seeking records on …
Arguments by the DOJ (Anthony J. Coppolino) and the ACLU were heard today in U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Michigan. The government maintains that the domestic surveillance program is legal.
CDT: “A federal appeals court today ruled 2-1 that telephone regulators and the FBI can control the design of Internet services in order to make government wiretapping easier. The decision (29 pages, PDF), which is damaging both to civil liberties and technology innovation, came in a case in which CDT joined with a coalition of …
Can the Justice Department Prosecute Reporters Who Publish Leaked Classified Information Interpreting the Espionage Act, by Louis Klarevas Related postings: DOJ Testimony Reiterates AG Policy on Journalists and Leaks and AG States Prosecution of Journalists for Leaks is Legal
Follow-up to postings on the government phone surveillance program, USAToday.com reported that Senate Judicary Chair Arlen Specter cancelled hearings that would have scrutinized the extent to which phone companies provided customer records to the NSA. Related Congressional news: CNN reported on growing tensions between Specter and Cheney which produced a formal written complaint by the …
BusinessWeek.com Keeping an Eye on the Snoops: With government eavesdropping getting more aggressive, privacy safeguards need to be beefed up. Postings on domestic surveillance program
Federalism, Democratic Values and the Federal Marriage Amendment: “This morning the Center for American Progress, in partnership with the Cato Institute, welcomed the perspectives of four legal experts on the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) up for vote in the Senate this week. The panelists were Dale Carpenter, law professor at the University of Minnesota; Louis …
The American Bar Association Board of Governors decided reportedly “unanimously…to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office.”
The New York Times reported today that the “Justice Department is asking Internet companies to keep records on the Web-surfing activities of their customers to aid law enforcement, and may propose legislation to force them to do so.” Related news and documents: CDT: “The Justice Department’s mounting effort to persuade or compel ISPs and other …
Following up on previous postings about Connecticut librarians gagged by the FBI’s use of the National Security Letter provision of the Patriot Act, news from an ACLU press conference on the identity of the librarians and their respective statements as follows: Barbara Bailey Peter Chase George Christian Janet Nocek
A Briefing On Public Policy Issues Affecting Civil Liberties Online from The Center For Democracy and Technology – Veterans Data Breach Highlights Inadequate Privacy Protections. Related postings and resources for veterans impacted by this data breach.
“Irrepressible.org will harnass the power of the internet to mobilise people all over the world to take a stand against repression.” [Link] “…Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information. The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments with …
