Sentences with phrase «liberty groups»

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

(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.

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..

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.

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.

Religious liberty groups like hers are watching the Hobby Lobby case closely.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

After a national civil - liberties group intervened on his behalf, Swan was allowed to continue in the program, and WSU has since revised its evaluation form.

Civil - liberties groups sued, and the Denver District Court halted the program in August, before it was implemented.

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

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.

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

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.

Today, civil liberties group Liberty sent a van around the capital attacking the Home Office for the «dog whistle» nature of the campaign.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

While this statement, first noticed by The Guardian, won't exactly come as a shock to civil liberties groups, the average consumer might be surprised to hear the potential privacy threat so boldly stated.

EFF, together with 41 national, state, and local civil rights and civil liberties groups, sent a letter today urging the ethics board of police technology and weapons developer Axon to hold the company accountable to the communities its products impact — and to itself.

Freed this January in a prisoner swap initiated by President Obama, Abedini is now in the United States, where many Christians and religious - liberty groups had prayed and campaigned for his release.

Both the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives have pledged to oppose such a move, sharing the concerns of civil liberties groups.

Officials have pointed out they are not seeking permission for the content of the calls to be made available - but civil liberties groups have branded the draft legislation a «snoopers» charter».

The number led to angry accusations from opposition parties and civil liberties groups that the government is creating the world's biggest DNA database «by stealth».

While outraging civil liberties groups, control orders have also proved ineffective in curbing terrorism.