Sentences with phrase «liberties group said»

«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.

(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.

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

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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 Romney / Ryan ticket has courted this group, saying the Obama White House has attacked religious liberty and American values.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

Religious groups across a wide spectrum denounced the mandate, saying it infringed on their religious liberty.

In April 2016, Christian groups including the Evangelical Alliance said plans for Sunday schools to be forced to register with Ofsted and undergo inspections amounted to an «unjustified restriction of religious liberty».

I'll mention one fundamental one: if in these contexts I take the liberty to outrightly deny that indeed it was God who said, and not some power group with a dirty political agenda, then WHEN and WHY will I accept «God said...», this and that (and particularly more positive, palatable stuff») at face value?

I am simply saying, without leaving the physical field, that the greatest discovery made in this century is probably the realisation that the passage of Time may best be measured by the gradual gathering of Matter in superposed groups, of which the arrangement, ever richer and more centralized, radiates outwards from an ever more luminous fringe of liberty and interiority.

Some anti-circumcision groups, however, say the lawsuit's argument for religious liberty is just an excuse to defend old tradition that some frown upon as strange compared with mainstream hospital circumcisions.

The substantive claim is that Confucian values are anti-democratic; Asian societies, according to Samuel Huntington, are said to favor authority over liberty, the group over the individual, duties over rights and such values as harmony, cooperation, order and respect for hierarchy (Huntington, 1993).

Beecher spoke for a vast majority of the American Protestants when he said that these groups «constitute a sort of disciplined moral militia, prepared to act upon every emergency, and repel every encroachment upon the liberties and morals of the State.

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.

«There is no more important effort than the protection and expansion of the rights and liberties of the people,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a former assemblyman who is working with other groups supporting a convention.

«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.

Secession is about reclaiming the economic opportunities Upstate has lost and restoring the liberties Upstate residents once enjoyed,» the groups said in a news release announcing their rally.

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.

«It's pretty much in line with what GM is doing with its other divisions» product lineups,» said Christopher Cedergren, an analyst with AutoPacific Group in Santa Ana, Calif. «Saturn really can take a little more liberty because of the strength of its image.

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.