Sentences with phrase «of dragnet»

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.

Cell - site simulators are a form of dragnet surveillance that indiscriminately seize information from everyone in the area, innocent and target alike.

Equifax: The Hazards of Dragnet Surveillance Capitalism Part 2: Just Another Data Breach?

China has developed a big data Social Credit System that leverages networked databases, mass surveillance, and every meaningful economic and social interaction of its citizens into a utility of dragnet surveillance and unprecedented control.

Disclaimer: This post in no way condons & / or denies any Braves FO actions & / or those of MLB in any way, part or as a whole In the words of the late great Joe Friday of Dragnet fame... «only the facts Ma'am».

Let us first look briefly at some miscellaneous parables of judgment introduced by the words, «The kingdom of heaven is like...» There is, first, the parable of the dragnet (Matt.

This is suggested in the parables of the weeds and of the dragnet referred to above (see Matthew 13: 24 - 30, 47 - 50) and still more vividly in the «signs of the end» found in the almost wholly apocalyptic chapters Mark 13 and Matthew 24.

We find there the parables of the sower, of weeds growing in the wheat until the harvest, of the mustard seed, of the leaven, of the treasure hid in a field, of the pearl of great value, of the dragnet taking in all kinds of fish, of the householder bringing out of his treasure what is new and what is old.

Example Parable of the dragnet v / s parable of the lost coin v / s parable of the vineyard, etc..

Several commentators see this as the Thomas version of the Dragnet, (E.g. R. M. Grant, Secret Sayings of Jesus, p. 124; R. McL.

She is also the author of Dragnet Nation (Times Books, 2014), a deep dive into computer and network surveillance.

Not exact matches

One day of «un-shopping» may not have much of an impact in itself, but «if we stop and think about it for a day, we might find out that we're more deeply tangled in the dragnet of consumerism,» says the Buy Nothing Day website.

In that early case, officers convinced thousands of men to voluntarily turn over blood samples, building a genetic dragnet to search for a killer in their midst.

The problem is you also need trustworthy friends to help you stay ahead of the surveillance dragnet that's out to get you.

If we may take the parables of the weeds and the dragnet as Jesus» answer to such questions, they mean something like this: That is not the way God governs his world.

Four other distinctively Matthaean expressions appear in the explanations of the parables of the weeds and the dragnet: «the sons of the kingdom»; «the sons of the evil one»; «the furnace of fire»; and «there men will weep and gnash their teeth.»

14 To change the metaphor, they are «fishers of men,» 15 and fishers with a dragnet, 16 which gathers in fish of all kinds, without discrimination.

Finally, he has added a version of the rabbinical parable of the unprepared guests, referred to above, to make the whole an allegory of the mixed state of the Church and the sorting - out process of the future judgement of God, a theme characteristic of his gospel (allegories of weeds of the field, 13.24 - 30, 36 - 43, dragnet, 13.47 - 50, sheep and goats, 25.31 - 33).

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.

«We commend the Governor for standing up against the Trump deportation machine to protect immigrant New Yorkers at state facilities, but we need to stop ICE where they frequently use their dragnet, thus chilling public safety for all,» Steven Choi, the executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said in a statement.

«Experts say (Cuomo's) bungling of a high - profile criminal dragnet... damaged his future as a crime - fighting policymaker.»

The revelation that Ms. Huntley was taping conversations suggested a widening dragnet in Albany: the spectacle of two sitting lawmakers — one a senator, the other an assemblyman — independently recording conversations at the behest of federal authorities.

The idea of DNA sweeps or «dragnets» originated in Europe, and police departments have employed the technique more than a dozen times in the United States, typically stirring controversy.

The semi-documentary style of The Blue Lamp could not help but have been an influence on Jack Webb's Dragnet.

As with so many movies that would be written and starring SNL alums, Dragnet is a case of a very funny sketch comedy idea dragged out beyond its ability to truly entertain in a feature film.

Clute was working more often in the 1960s, on Dick Powell Theatre, Wagon Train, Hogan's Heroes, Mannix, Ben Casey, Perry Mason, That Girl, and dozens of other series, though he was probably most visible in the revived series Dragnet, which used him in key supporting roles in seven episodes.

«A lot of sociopolitical attitudes in America were foisted upon the public by «Dragnet.»

I've always thought Jack Webb (who plays a tech cop) got a lot of ideas for «Dragnet» from this movie — some of which was directed by the uncredited noir expert Anthony Mann.

Dragnet — Essentially just an overlong episode of the TV series, but in Technicolor.

Though he is best known for his sobering 1953 masterpiece Tokyo Story, the apex of his portrayals of the changing Japanese family, Ozu began his career in the thirties, in a more comedic, though still socially astute, mode, with such films as I Was Born, But... and Dragnet Girl.

Synopsis: Gil Carter (Henry Fonda, My Darling Clementine) and Art Croft (Henry Morgan, Dragnet) ride into a town frustrated by the prevalence of cattle rustlers.

The disc includes a pocket of extras: a banal 7 - minute making - of featurette (directed by Les Mayfield, late of Flubber) from the film's year of release that finds Hanks comparing the money pit itself to Jaws; a page of Hanks - themed Recommendations (Apollo 13, The «burbs, Dragnet); and The Money Pit's theatrical trailer.

But in practical terms, what this most often comes down to is a series of vignettes involving superannuated Weathermen and Students for a Democratic Society types (additionally played by Nick Nolte, Sam Elliott, and Richard Jenkins — it's quite a cast) prattling on about the good - bad old days while the FBI dragnet, and that rapacious reporter, close in.

The twice - Oscar - winning actor, filmmaker, novelist, activist, typewriter collector and star of at least one of your favourite childhood movies («Dragnet» for me) is one of Hollywood's good guys — at a time when the place could do with a few more of them.

Expect the Team and its sycophants, including those in Australia, to become more irrational as dragnet of evidence entraps them.

That being the case the Friday before Labour Day weekend is like New Year's Eve and my tradition for academic New Year's Eve is to take a look at the incoming class of law students to see what their mindset is and try to figure out how to relate to them (I dropped my Dragnet reference with regards to legal writing «just the facts» years ago, which was a shame because I really liked that one).

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.

For years, campaigners had been saying that the law had been acting as a dragnet indiscriminately and unfairly ensnaring young people, mainly from ethnic minority communities, as part of a misconceived clampdown on the menace of gang culture.

Now, usually when I get people whose dispositions or attitudes are a bit morose, I either tend to talk to them in their own voice, sort of like Jack Webb from Dragnet (for you older people), or I'll go completely over the top and annoy them with this «Isn't the world great!»

China was already beginning to leverage artificial intelligence, machine learning, and dragnet surveillance to influence the thoughts and actions of its people through the dystopian Social Credit system.

The Equifax breach should epitomize the consequences of negligent data brokerage and serve as a wake - up call to similar organizations who profit from dragnet surveillance and the employment of psychographic and demographic Big Data algorithms.

The reckless handling of data collected in capitalistic dragnet surveillance has developed into a national security and privacy epidemic.

In this publication, entitled «Dragnet Surveillance Nation: How Data Brokers Sold Out America,» the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of this underreported and poorly understood threat to our Nation's critical infrastructures.

Psychographic targeting is made easy via big data analytics, the treasure troves of readily available metadata curated by dragnet surveillance capitalists, and a legislative body that lacks the understanding of the dangers of its weaponization.

With recent accusations of fake news and the weaponization of information as a mechanism of steering public perceptions dominating headlines around the world, have you ever considered the reality that private dragnet surveillance via social media properties, ISPs, search engines, health sector organizations etc., heavily contribute to the problems of adversarial intervention and streamlined distribution of malware, ransomware, other forms of malicious payloads and propaganda?

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.

It was made possible by a diverse coalition of organizations, people, and companies that believe the NSA's dragnet surveillance strikes at the heart of a free society.

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.

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.

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...