Sentences with phrase «us electronic surveillance»

«With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea... whether there are «tapes» or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,» he wrote.
• The US government spies on at least 38 foreign embassies and missions, using a variety of electronic surveillance methods.
We live in the golden age, if you could call it that, of electronic surveillance.
«It is important to note that CIA is legally prohibited from conducting electronic surveillance targeting individuals here at home, including our fellow Americans, and CIA does not do so,» Horniak said.
On October 21, 2016, DOJ and FBI sought and received a FISA probable cause order (up; under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISC.
Use of electronic surveillance devices by employers limited.
The memo reportedly suggests that Steele lied to FBI agents who interviewed him during their probe of the 2016 election and that this purported lie was included in a successful application for a federal court order to conduct electronic surveillance on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Alternative sentences such as house arrest, electronic surveillance, and community - based work programs keep minor offenders tied closely to the very things that motivate most people to straighten out: their families, jobs, and communities.
• In the past congressional oversight has all too often been no more sharp - eyed than Edward V. Long's hearings in 1966 on electronic surveillance.
Gee, all that blanket electronic surveillance, and all the scanning and groping at the airport — it's obviously not to «keep us safe» as the propaganda line goes.
Such crimes and misdemeanours which range from copyright infringements to electronic surveillance pose serious threats to people's moral and physical integrity.
It covers everything from the right to privacy and the increase in electronic surveillance, through to issues such as the proposed reduction of trial by jury - all contemporary topics
In its current ossified form, the British state offers an unpalatable mix of medieval hierarchy and techno - authoritarianism, symbolised in recent weeks by an enthroned Queen Elizabeth II announcing plans to deepen the government's already vast powers of electronic surveillance over her subjects.
The governor is deploying more than two - dozen State Police troopers — including aviation units and electronic surveillance equipment — to Long Island to help combat the notorious MS - 13 gang, which he called «as brazen as it is brutal.»
The arrest of Mr Green was «disproportionate» and «poorly executed», the committee concludes, with the use if electronic surveillance also being condemned.
In the past three years Clegg has backed the «snoopers» charter», pushed for secret courts and stood mutely as evidence emerged of widespread electronic surveillance by the security services.
He instead suggested more electronic surveillance, more funding for enforcement agencies, and more accountability for companies that hire illegal immigrants.
Through traditional investigative means such as physical surveillance and search warrants, coupled with court - authorized electronic surveillance, authorities allegedly developed information that led detectives to areas known for drug selling.
Greater privacy protections against government intrusion, including electronic surveillance.
CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to conduct electronic surveillance by requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built - in surveillance capabilities, allowing federal agencies to wiretap any telephone traffic; it has since been extended to cover broadband internet and VoIP traffic.
It had been claimed that there was a trend in private prisons to increase electronic surveillance of inmates in order to reduce staff numbers.
«Animal fighting fuels some of the most violent enterprises that corrupt our neighborhoods, and many people did not know that animal fighting was not eligible for a warrant to conduct electronic surveillance,» Boyle said in a statement.
The electronic surveillance lasted about six months and, as Newsday previously reported, also included the wiretapping of Venditto's cellphone along with those of Antetomaso and Ippolito.
The state also will contribute aircraft, intelligence expertise, electronic surveillance and vehicles to the anti-gang effort, Cuomo said.
The Assembly's Presiding Officer has written to the Prime Minister demanding urgent clarification and consultation about reports that the UK Government's electronic surveillance agency, GCHQ, is no longer banned from spying on AMs.
Those recordings revealed that both men were concerned about electronic surveillance, and illustrated the son's unsuccessful efforts to thwart it.
Father and son communicated using coded language, and the son used what he called a «burner» phone not registered in his name «to limit possible electronic surveillance by law enforcement,» the complaint alleged.
COMPANIES that sell electronic surveillance equipment to repressive regimes face the prospect of being «outed» on the Internet this autumn.
The survey also assessed structure and resources of infection prevention and control programs, evaluating characteristics such as staffing, use of electronic surveillance systems, and proportion of infection preventionists with certification.
Starting last summer, through a series of leaks made to select media outlets, Snowden shed light on several electronic surveillance programs previously unknown to the general public, including the PRISM program for gathering Internet - based communications such as e-mail and the Section 215 Telephony Metadata Program, so named after Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.
Sophisticated criminals are aware that there's electronic surveillance out there in myriad ways, and so they're going to take precautions.
For instance, the government is now allowed to conduct wiretapping and electronic surveillance and to examine medical, bank and credit card records, all without a warrant or probable cause.
Lockhart tells Saul the CIA should rely more heavily on electronic surveillance and drone strikes in combating terrorism.
Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott), also called C, is a firm believer in electronic surveillance gathering and is finding ample support, from both the government and private benefactors, to replace people with technology.
Our PCI DSS compliant platform uses 256 - bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to ensure personal information is protected, and all data is stored in highly secure data centers with state - of - the art electronic surveillance and multi-factor access control systems.
Each villa is featured with private swimming pool, living and dining area, fully equipped kitchen, and the Electronic surveillance security system alert.
The game missions offer plenty of challenges, even at the easiest level police chases can be relentless, if you manage to evade the police units dispatch will go into a grid search using the electronic surveillance systems.
Freedom is now under Electronic Surveillance.
The affair certainly offered copious lessons for artists, not just for what they directly revealed — a world of total electronic surveillance — nor even for what they more indirectly illustrated: how very globally interconnected the contemporary world of discourse has become, when a crusading journalist based in Brazil teams with a British newspaper to unveil the inner doings of the us spy programme, with stops in Hong Kong and Moscow, as if in some kind of homage to the globe - trotting itinerary of James Bond.
e.) George Orwell wrote a futuristic novel in 1948 about life under a tyrannical government that used control of information and electronic surveillance in «1984» [5].
For example, the Division approves or monitors sensitive areas of law enforcement such as participation in the Witness Security Program and the use of electronic surveillance; advises the Attorney General, Congress, the Office of Management Budget and the White House on matters of criminal law; provides legal advice and assistance to federal prosecutors and investigative agencies; and provides leadership for coordinating international as well as federal, state, and local law enforcement matters.
Given the question I raised yesterday, I'm particularly interested in the brief the Bush administration filed in the FISA Court,» The President Has Inherent Authoritv to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Protect National Security from Foreign Threats.»
Does the fact that we have increasingly sophisticated systems of electronic surveillance change the way we need to think about privacy rights, not just in the criminal justice system but in the civil justice system as well?
New technologies — including electronic surveillance tools, the rise of social networking sites, the use of GPS systems, and the introduction of biometric identification devices — make it possible to encroach on individual privacy in ways we never could have imagined.
The most recent issue of the Canadian government's Weekly Checklist features the 2006 annual report on electronic surveillance from Public Safety Canada.
The report outlines the use of electronic surveillance of private communications by law enforcement agencies to assist in criminal investigations.
However, that fact notwithstanding, we must remain vigilant in this age of private sector electronic surveillance.
There is always the potential for exposure of third party information in the context of electronic surveillance and the courts will have to address how those privacy interests will be protected.
She stated, at para. 98, that article 402 of the Code of Civil Procedure does not give a trial judge «carte blanche to order disclosure of communications protected by an almost impermeable legal coating» and «evidence gathered through electronic surveillance... is not amenable to a balancing contest».
This report offers a ground - level view of some of the ways surveillance, and digital electronic surveillance in particular, is impacting on the lives of citizens and residents in Canada, as well as in countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
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