Sentences with phrase «among civil libertarians»

But even as the technology is proving useful on a variety of fronts, its growing deployment is raising alarms among civil libertarians, who worry that the capability to identify people based solely on their appearance will erode privacy.

There, a bill designed to outlaw pornography on the Internet which had looked like a lost cause has now reached the House of Representatives — creating fury among civil libertarians in its wake.

Not exact matches

Dominic Raab, the new MP for Esher and Walton (and author of the excellent The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights) set out his stall as the civil libertarian - in - chief among the new intake in his maiden speech yesterday:

Among the groups represented at the hearing were the National Association of Scholars, which had filed the complaint, and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), founded and headed by civil libertarians Alan Charles Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvey Silverglate, a criminal defense attorney.