(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.
«Officials with
the civil liberties group said they could ask the Legislature for help but they are not confident state lawmakers would support the changes.
In addition,
civil liberties group say that facial recognition technology is unreliable because people's facial patterns can change quite quickly.
Not exact matches
After this story was initially published, David Rocah, an attorney at the ACLU of Maryland,
said the
civil liberties group also would seek a copy of the proposal.
The Liberal Democrats
said today's figures highlighted the need to use intercepot eivdence in court - a key proposal of
civil liberty group Liberty.
Big Brother Watch, a UK
civil liberties pressure
group,
said several of its online services were run via the US, meaning its website fell under US law.
«Britain has a policing model much admired around the world and the police's political independence is as important as that of the courts,»
civil liberties group Liberty's director of policy Isabella Sankey
said.
Mr Clarke, whose strong connections to
civil liberties groups have been severely tested during the row,
said the proposal would subject security agencies behaviour to judicial scrutiny.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of
civil liberties group Liberty,
said: «The spooks» hunger for our personal information knows no bounds.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of
civil liberties campaign
group Liberty,
said it was the «nasty immigration politics», not the politician, that should go.
«I think there is a real disconnect between the patent office and what's really going on in the industry,»
says Tara Lemmey, director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a
civil liberties pressure
group based in San Franscisco.
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.
Civil liberties groups, however, are promising to oppose it,
saying that the real test will come in the courts.
Danielle Citron, chairwoman the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a
group that focuses on emerging data privacy and
civil liberties issues,
says the food movement could provide a roadmap for how to create better data privacy laws.
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.
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.