Sentences with phrase «civil liberties groups»

Liability issues raised by companies and privacy concerns of civil liberties groups contributed to the failure to implement such laws.

In addition, civil liberties group say that facial recognition technology is unreliable because people's facial patterns can change quite quickly.

The government's initial response to the ruling was fiercely criticised by civil liberties groups.

They have joined civil liberties groups in demanding more transparency and insisting that information is turned over to the government only when required by law, often in the form of a court order.

But opposition parties and civil liberty groups expressed outrage at the government's response.

The Liberal Democrats said today's figures highlighted the need to use intercepot eivdence in court - a key proposal of civil liberty group Liberty.

The following year, Facebook outraged civil liberties groups with a new privacy policy that gave people less control over their what they could do with their data and made sensitive information like profile pictures, locations, and friend lists publicly available.

(Reuters)- A Muslim civil liberties group said on Wednesday it wants a review of the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida.

Ken Clarke partially backed down on plans to hold court cases in private today, amid growing outrage from civil liberties groups.

An online poll by civil liberties group Big Brother Watch also suggested that as few as 12 % of people thought the bill would represent good value for money at a cost of nearly # 2 billion over ten years.

As the ACLU and other civil liberties groups have noted, the process of demanding body fluids from employees is an invasive procedure, and one that may not serve any obvious benefit.

The following year, Facebook outraged civil liberties groups with a new privacy policy that gave people less control over their what they could do with their data and made sensitive information like profile pictures, locations, and friend lists publicly available.

The ACFC works closely with pro-family and civil liberties groups throughout the country in an effort to promote equal rights for both parents in family courts throughout the U.S..

The home secretary was forced to deny the idea after civil liberties groups found a clause in the upcoming immigration bill expanding powers previously only active at entry points to the UK.

A Muslim civil liberties group demanded an apology from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long over a series of tweets she sent about a former Catholic church in Syracuse that was converted into a mosque.

Now, however, Silicon Valley's reduced involvement frustrates civil liberties groups because of a widely held view that Section 702 poses a far greater threat to privacy than the telephone program, which did not harvest actual content.

Civil liberties groups assert that the 1986 law did not anticipate the way mobile devices now contain a wealth of data on each user.

A number of Protestant, Catholic and civil liberties groups challenged this special nod to one faith, declaring that such recognition jeopardizes the rights of other churches (and of individual Catholics) by creating a direct government link with the Vatican.

Civil liberties groups started to adopt a more critical tone, despite general satisfaction at the «proportionate» government response to the disorder so far.

The figures will provide succour to civil liberties groups who argue that terror laws are being over-used.

The immigration bill has caused outrage among civil liberties groups with its demand for driving instructors, private landlords, GPs and others to check people's immigration status.

Citizens for Democracy, a respected Indian civil liberties group headed by the distinguished former supreme court judge V.M.Tarkunde, published a report called Oppression in Punjab (1985).

Civil liberties groups pointed out that evidence from intelligence and security agencies will be presented to court but not the individuals seeking damages or making a complaint, meaning they would be unable to challenge it.

VanBlarcum halted the warrant checks in November after civil liberties groups wrote a letter protesting the practice and county lawmakers threatened to turn over security services at the DSS center to a private firm.

The fact Don't Spy On Us, which includes basically every privacy and civil liberties group worth knowing, is launching such a high profile billboard, print and online advertising campaign tells you something crucial though: the bill is still defeatable.

MANHATTAN — A Muslim - American civil liberties group, moving to address opposition to the Ground Zero mosque, has unveiled an ad campaign that features Muslim 9/11 first responders, according to the Daily News.

Online services are a battleground between civil liberties groups and the government, because the legal status of the services is still unclear.

Civil liberties groups charge that the system will deepen monitoring of the citizenry, especially if combined with the Chinese state's growing biometrics capabilities.

Unlike last year's Stop Online Piracy Act outcry, in which Internet users and civil liberties groups allied with technology companies against Hollywood, no broad alliance exists this time.

FES in particular has not said whether it supports more metal detectors in schools or other measures, although civil liberties groups say FES's campaign undermines the ultimate goal of removing scanners from some schools.

Part of that goal is establishing an advisory group on national security transparency, which will include civil liberties groups, Bardsley explains.

Privacy advocates and civil liberties groups claim that the scanners are breaching privacy laws.

In fact, CCLA and other Canadian civil liberties groups have pointed out that the Criminal Code is an effective counter-terrorism tool that already allows police to properly pursue, investigate, disrupt, and successfully prosecute terrorism - related crimes.

In addition, the bar also says that violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — an anti-hacking law bolstered by the USA Patriot Act, a piece of legislation that many civil liberties groups (and presumably, many DC Bar members) opposed.

Most of the civil liberties associations born in the thirties and forties were defunct by the late 1950s, and a new coterie of civil liberties groups emerged in the sixties beginning with the BCCLA.

Dozens of other technology, media and civil liberties groups filed briefs supporting Microsoft last month, and the case is pending.

Samuelson, who was an author of a brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group...

October 2007: WPF convenes a meeting of privacy and civil liberty groups at UC Berkeley.

Some legal experts, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties group, say that courts are too keen to uphold patents on ideas that are too vague to deserve protection.

Civil liberties groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union, New America's Open Technology Institute and the Consumer Federation of America are also not fans of the new FCC policy, but for very different reasons.

Judge Margaret McKeown motivated the majority's decision by saying this case isn't about password sharing in general, in spite of what civil liberties groups might be saying.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of civil liberties group Liberty, said: «The spooks» hunger for our personal information knows no bounds.

Last year he drew howls of protest from civil liberties groups and advocates for the poor when he instituted routine warrant checks at a security post manned by deputies inside Ulster County's Department of Social Services.

Civil liberties group Big Brother Watch called on ministers to scrap existing proposals altogether, however.

The ACFC works closely with pro-family and civil liberties groups throughout the country in an effort to promote equal rights for both parents in family courts throughout the U.S.

But civil liberties groups said states can't criminalize the assertion of a constitutional right.

Civil liberty groups demanded more details on Obama's plans, but WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called the announcement «a victory of sorts for Edward Snowden and his many supporters.

In April, civil liberties groups in Colorado asked the Colorado Supreme Court to strike down a pilot program that provides public education funds to religious schools.