Sentences with phrase «information about their citizens»

The Patriot Act made it legal for the FBI to access all information about citizens without a warrant.

As the Syrian government suppresses pro-democracy rebels, the regime's military supremacy and grip on information about its citizens is seriously hampering the task of verifying fatalities.

Any demand that private information about any citizen be stored in another country's facilities, where that country can freely access it is not just a violation of privacy (which can be argued), it is a violation of sovereignty.

In particular, it is about the controversial practice of «carding», a practice involving stops of citizens by the police, whether there is an offense being committed or not, and recording the contact and personal information about the citizen on a «208» card.

The case will not only provide more details about government surveillance practices, but help to provide a better understanding of the warren of secret laws that the government has been using to demand information about citizens.

Facebook may have clamped down on access to its data, but there is more information about citizens on the market than ever before.

The GDPR creates stiff penalties for any exposure of personally identifiable information about a citizen of the EU, mandating rapid reporting of any breach by the affected entity and enabling massive fines in the event of an exposure.

Though voters elected to leave the EU, the United Kingdom will still be subject to the GDRP, which «creates stiff penalties for any exposure of personally identifiable information about a citizen of the EU, mandating rapid reporting of any breach by the affected entity and enabling massive fines in the event of an exposure,» according to the blog post.

Moreover, third - party services» popularity also means that more and more people store huge amounts of private data and communications online, making these sites ripe for governments and civil lawyers seeking information about citizens, whether for law enforcement purposes or more nefarious reasons.

Not exact matches

The «right to be forgotten» made headlines in the U.S. in 2014 when a citizen of Spain won a judgment that Google had to take down personal information about him.

• The NSA shares raw intelligence data (with information about American citizens) to Israel with an information - sharing agreement.

The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to expand the files it collects on immigrants, as well as some citizens, by including more online data — most notably search results and social media information — about each individual.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

The couple filed their suit after being convicted in a Chinese court two years ago for illegally purchasing personal information about Chinese citizens, but argue that they were set up by Glaxo.

The Justice Department is making efforts to notify COINTELPRO victims, and under the Freedom of Information Act citizens may succeed in finding out about intelligence activity directed against them (a local ACLU office can help).

We know that television informs us, a genuine window on the world, but also that its commercial demand for profit severely limits the amount of diversity of opinion that is aired, that it tends to trivialize issues and to represent the views of the rich, so that through TV the average citizen simply can not get the information needed to make intelligent decisions about living in our democracy.

Shedd is a collaborator with Global FinPrint, which recruits citizen scientists to help fill a critical information gap about the declining number of sharks and rays in the world's oceans.

Some of this data would have been recognizable to party operatives at the turn of the 19th century, such as voter files that contain information about the party registration and issue interests of citizens.

While companies and governments are concerned about being targets of digital infiltration, they have used these technologies to obtain extensive information from common citizens for crime and terrorism prevention or commercial purposes.

«The reports provide a much greater insight than any information already available about the UCP [Universal Credit programme], there are strong arguments for transparency and accountability for a programme which may affect 11 million UK citizens and process billions of pounds, which has had numerous reported failings in its governance.»

Democratic republicanism should support Citizen Scientist (An NHS - University initiative being trialled where citizens have a close relationship with their doctor and are given equipment to record medical and dietry etc information about their lives, and send it back to the doctor, for their own good, and to collectively find cures and preventions for diseases for society).

In bringing together such a wide range of information, including candidate names, previous election results, demographics, party funding information, election forecasts, and information about constituency history, the Dashboard is the most comprehensive data source for citizens seeking to find out more about their local area.

[17] The CPPD also operate a Citizen Observer Alert Network to keep citizens informed about local crime, emergency situations, and other important information.

According to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, of the news portal, Honourable, Dr. Sam Ode the aim of the medium was to usher in a new dimension to the international perspective of how Nigerians are viewed in and out of their country and to have an objective, balanced and accurate information about Nigeria and performances of its citizens devoid of sentiments in an era of fake news.

A new advertising campaign by Don't Spy On Us features posters with the world's most famous authoritarians and dictators celebrating what Theresa May is about to do: create an incredibly extensive database of personal information and use it to spy on British citizens.

She disclosed that Nigeria had written to a number of nations to request specific information about offshore trusts and bank accounts held by its citizens.

... fudging the facts about important information that citizens have a right to know is another thing altogether.

By writing Town Hall transparency into law we can make certain every citizen gets open and equal access to information about local public expenditure.

House Speaker John Diehl (R) went to great lengths to assure citizens and the Missouri Congressional delegation alike that redistricting committee members had not already made any decisions about which seat to cut the most aggressively before detailed Census information was delivered.

«As we continue our push to clear all remaining elements of Boko Haram terrorists we call on law abiding citizens of the country to continue providing security agencies with credible information about all known and suspected terrorists.

Today, the collection of similar data about wildlife and the environment is needed and citizen scientist programs offer a low - cost yet scientifically rigorous way to gather such information.

But in addition, citizens would be able to make better decisions about insurance coverage if they were given more meaningful information about the proximity of risk.

«Even if people think objectively and follow rules of statistical inference, richer and poorer people may be led, by the information available to them, to very different conclusions about how wealthy their fellow citizens are, on average, and how wealth is distributed across society.»

I wanted to find out if providing citizens with information about school performance helps address or exacerbates imbalances in turnout.»

The researchers partnered with Zooniverse to build the web site, which includes information about condors and the science behind the project, as well as guidelines for citizen scientists.

Not only will citizen scientists add valuable information on the extent of ground shaking and damage, but in the process USGS hopes citizen scientists will learn more about how other communities fared and gain a greater understanding of the effects of earthquakes.

By contributing experience of the earthquake, either immediately afterward, or whenever it is possible for to do so, citizen scientists will have made a contribution to the scientific body of information about this earthquake.

Vital scientific information about whale shark behavior, biology and ecology is being uncovered by an unlikely source — ecotourists and other citizens.

Thanks to modern advancements in technology and the burgeoning field of «citizen science,» new information about gregarious and mysterious whale sharks is being revealed in a study slated to publish on November 29 in BioScience.

We hope to explore that and to understand more fully how news and information about scientific activities makes their way to citizens, how they understand it, and how, in some circumstances, they contribute to it.»

Nowadays, several citizen observatories collect information about our environment.

Citizens» Nuclear Information Center * is deeply concerned about the grave risks involved with the restart of the Monju Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (FBR).1 Safety, economic and nuclear proliferation issues are being ignored for purely bureaucratic reasons.

«We hope to explore that and to understand more fully how news and information about scientific activities makes their way to citizens.»

The motivation for the MCA arose from citizens and organizations in Montana who have expressed interest in receiving timely and pertinent information about climate change, including information about historical variability, past trends, and projections of future impacts as they relate to topics of economic concern.

The Montana Climate Assessment (MCA) is an effort to synthesize, evaluate, and share credible and relevant scientific information about climate change in Montana with the citizens of the State.

Dedicated to giving congressional district citizens access to news, politics, and information about issues being discussed in Washington that impacts their district.

The biopic from director Oliver Stone tells the story of the former CIA employee Edward Snowen (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who became a whistleblower when he leaked classified information about the NSA to the media that revealed the agency was spying on unknowing citizens of the United States.

Yet when the filmmaker came across an article in The New Yorker about the citizen journalist outfit Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, he realized that the war he would cover would not be fought with bullets, as much as the men and women who file dispatches from ground zero risk their lives, but instead with information as he followed the network built by RBSS to share their testimony with the rest of the world to rival the propaganda machine created by ISIS to recruit new soldiers from inside the country.

And while the film is sort of about this war of ideas, propaganda, information from these citizen journalists and ISIS» slick propaganda, it's also a story of immigrants, an exodus story, of Man's understanding, coming to terms, and dealing with the cumulative effects of trauma... also, rising nationalism both in Germany and around the world.

The ISIS - occupied Syrian city of Raqqa may be in the news this week, but for years one of the only sources of information about it came from a group of heroic citizen journalists.