Sentences with phrase «dragnet government»

And we've been glad to add our Personal Democracy Media's name to campaigns aiming to defend the open Internet and to rein in dragnet government surveillance programs.

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According to him, Buhari can only be taken serious if he extends his dragnet across the inter-party divide as well as to other tiers of government.

If government dragnets leave you hot under the collar, and you're the type that prefers to air your criticisms loudly and publicly, there's good news from the other side of the Atlantic.

Filed in 2008, Jewel v. NSA is aimed at ending the NSA's dragnet surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans and holding accountable the government officials who illegally authorized it.

The US government, with assistance from major telecommunications carriers including AT&T, has engaged in massive, illegal dragnet surveillance of the domestic communications and communications records of millions of ordinary Americans since at least 2001.

On July 16th, a broad coalition of plaintiffs sued the US government for «an illegal and unconstitutional program of dragnet electronic surveillance,» in which the NSA scoops up all telephone records handled by Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint in the US.

As news websites around the globe are publishing story after story about dragnet surveillance, these news sites all have one thing in common: when you visit these websites, your personal information is broadcast to dozens of companies, many of which have the ability to track your surfing habits, and many of which are subject to government data requests.