Two senior White House officials suggested Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Obama had tapped his telephone was not meant to be taken literally, arguing the president had been referring more broadly to a variety
of surveillance efforts during the 2016 campaign when he made the incendiary accusation.
The core
of the surveillance effort was a system codenamed MONKEYROCKET that involved a product (possibly a piece of software, possibly a VPN) described in documents as a «non-Western Internet anonymization service» with users in Iran in China.
Not exact matches
Big tech companies have had a fraught relationship with intelligence agencies in recent years, with prior revelations
of surveillance programs leading to
efforts to reassure consumers that their devices are safe from snoops.
A major line
of attack in
efforts to discredit the Justice Department has been some variation on the claim that the Obama administration ordered politically motivated
surveillance of the Trump campaign.
In interviews, former US intelligence officers said they were also skeptical
of the idea that the US diplomats in Cuba might have been subjected to some new
surveillance effort gone awry.
For consumers who are concerned about their data getting swept up as part
of blanket
surveillance, the best
efforts are probably devices that encrypt your data or avoid putting them in the cloud in the first place.
In interviews, former U.S. intelligence officers said they were also skeptical
of the idea that the U.S. diplomats in Cuba might have been subjected to some new
surveillance effort gone awry.
It was not an entirely spurious claim: Classified documents released by Edward J. Snowden showed a complex
effort by the National Security Agency to get into the systems
of a Chinese telecommunications giant, Huawei, though the United States maintained that the
effort was for national security
surveillance, not for the theft
of intellectual property.
Action: Disable location services Who is this for: Anyone who feels uncomfortable with the idea
of being kept under
surveillance How difficult is it: A bit
of effort finding and changing settings, and a bit
of commitment to stay on top
of any «updates» to privacy policies which might try to revive location tracking.
Knott, in» Publius and the NSA
Surveillance Program» argues for prudence and for surveillance of electronic information as a practical and historical imperative, arguing especially against the efforts of Congressman Justin Amash and Senato
Surveillance Program» argues for prudence and for
surveillance of electronic information as a practical and historical imperative, arguing especially against the efforts of Congressman Justin Amash and Senato
surveillance of electronic information as a practical and historical imperative, arguing especially against the
efforts of Congressman Justin Amash and Senator Rand Paul.
The tendency, nearly without exception,
of governments to employ mass
surveillance in an
effort to quell dissent and force compliance should give us pause.
The Northern Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed has tasked law enforcement agencies in the region to intensify their
surveillance efforts and clamp down on the activities
of arms smugglers.
MANHATTAN — NYPD took to Twitter Monday in their hunt for a man accused
of a sexual assault in Chelsea following a fruitless three months
of investigation, volunteer
efforts by community leaders and circulation
of clear
surveillance photos.
The Service
surveillance team noticed that upon frustrating the operation, the Judge with the active support
of the Governor craftily moved the money to an unknown location which the Service is currently making
effort to unravel.
The statement noted that the
surveillance efforts by the command in the period under review also made a total
of 270 seizures, with a Duty Paid Value (DPV)
of N235.6 million.
Former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says he's «incensed» after a report was critical
of police
surveillance efforts in the wake
of the Sept. 11 attacks.
«The service
surveillance team noticed that upon frustrating the operation, the judge, with the active support
of the governor, craftily moved the money to an unknown location, which the DSS is currently making
efforts to unravel.»
One
of Ernst's major public - facing
efforts for the past several years has been partnering with the Centers for Disease Control to develop Kidenga, a community - based
surveillance mobile app to help detect mosquito - borne disease in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and California, and provide users with the latest information on their area.
«When used in conjunction with forecasted data, the model predictions could be useful for focusing both
surveillance efforts, and the pre-positioning
of material and equipment in areas and periods
of particularly high risk.
To that end, the White House will announce that the University
of California, Los Angeles, will launch a $ 10 - million
effort that will support initial research informing the development
of a future national
surveillance system that would contain accurate figures about the incidence
of youth sports — related concussions.
As a public health analyst in the HIV / AIDS prevention branch, West supported the National HIV Behavioral
Surveillance (NHBS) project, an ongoing
effort that studies prevalence
of infection in specific risk groups in cities.
The Never - Ending End
of Privacy — An unprecedented government
surveillance effort surfaced in the summer.
Part
of our increased
surveillance efforts include the sale
of both prescription and off the shelf flu medications.
The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease
surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks
of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based
surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor
of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.
Today, such control
efforts usually have limited effects as they start when signs
of an epidemic can be seen within the hospital and primary care
surveillance system.
Heroic worldwide
surveillance efforts have avoided a repeat
of the 1918 flu pandemic, but as shown in the recent H1N1 outbreak, viruses can still outwit even the best public health
efforts.
«Our hope is that these
efforts will democratize the
surveillance and investigation
of infectious diseases.»
She also stressed that the world had to step up mosquito control
efforts,
surveillance of Zika, and
efforts to develop a vaccine.
In the aftermath
of the attack, two - thirds
of Massachusetts residents surveyed supported increasing the number
of video
surveillance cameras (66 percent) and the number
of police officers at public gatherings (69 percent) in an
effort to prevent future attacks.
Once the telescope is up and running, around 2014, astronomers will maintain continuous automated
surveillance of the heavens, calling up images
of the sky with no more
effort than the click
of a mouse.
«By providing a detailed view into the ongoing spread and diversification
of the Ebola virus, this study supports ongoing
surveillance and isolation
efforts and provides critical information for developing effective control strategies.»
Now that the mission is over, China will continue its
surveillance efforts for both animal and human health, Liang said: The immediate priority is to «clearly identify the source
of the virus.»
«Regular migration
of infected individuals complicates
surveillance and isolation
efforts, which are critical for controlling Ebola outbreaks.»
WHO today issued a «donor alert,» urgently requesting a 6 - month budget
of $ 10.5 million to support the vaccine study (which may require 5000 doses), as well as
surveillance, treatment, and conventional prevention and control
efforts.
The report calls on federal agencies and other research funders to support
efforts to build the
surveillance systems and develop case studies on the health
of individual marine mammals and populations.
In generally healthy patients, physicians will use the results
of WGS to derive insight into future health risks and inform prevention and
surveillance efforts, a category we refer to as General Genomic Medicine.
Genomics has a crucial role to play in disease
surveillance efforts by helping to understand the origins
of drug resistance, mapping hotspots and routes
of spread, and providing a cost effective and rapid means
of monitoring and evaluating the impact
of different interventions.
Their four - year
efforts have made very significant progress in breeding for durable resistance against blast in rice varieties that are adapted for Africa, have set the stage for continental
surveillance of the disease, and developed a robust collection
of resources for outreach and awareness creation.
This type
of genomic
surveillance can provide crucial insights to disease control
efforts, while also generating data
of fundamental scientific interest, such as potential drug and vaccine targets.
Memory - erasing gas, kidnapped children,
surveillance technology and bodyguard drones are all involved in this militaristic
effort to cleanse humans
of unwanted attributes.
There seems to be an admirable willingness to engage with real - world politics too, with references dropped to the
surveillance society, wars in the Middle East, and the price
of security, while a reunion with an older version
of a character from the first film provides probably the most moving moment in any Marvel
effort to date.
As part
of this
effort, the FAA in consultation with its interagency partners have considered the possible replacement
of long - range air
surveillance systems and the potential for combination with short - range air
surveillance and weather radar capabilities.
In his own words, Paglen's artistic project is to create «new metaphors» for the «invisible war» — the weaponization
of space, the militarization
of the internet, mass
surveillance, and counterintelligence
efforts by U.S. and foreign governments over the past 15 years, most
of which remain classified.
Routine
surveillance of animals may also directly benefit both wildlife conservation
efforts and human health by providing sentinels for diseases
of harm to humans.
Efforts to improve the information base should address the coordinated monitoring
of climate and improved
surveillance of health effects.
, the many reports
of police
surveillance of journalists in Quebec that gave rise to the Commission are a reminder that Canada still faces substantial challenges in its
efforts to protect a free and independent press.
This refers to large - scale multi-party investigations in which multiple police forces will cooperate with a team
of dedicated crown attorneys throughout lengthy wiretap /
surveillance investigations in an
effort to make sweeping arrests targeting gangs and organized crime.
Ansel, you've been involved in a couple
of efforts recently that have a lot more to do with current events, and how technology should respond to government, and
surveillance, and political changes and things like that.
While, as we have noted, the CMD 2 proposals contain some measures to mitigate market power on an ex ante basis the MSA will have additional jurisdiction both to monitor the AESO's
efforts to limit the exercise
of market power as well as ex post authority to sanction behaviour in the capacity market that fails to live up to the FEOC principle, much as it can in the energy market: see Market
Surveillance Administrator allegations against TransAlta Corporation et al., Mr. Nathan Kaiser and Mr. Scott Connelly, AUC Decision, 3110 - D01 - 2015 and see also a recent case management decision dealing with a class proceeding relating to this matter Carlson v Transalta Corporation, 2018 ABQB 343 (CanLII).
For instance, while we welcome Quebec's recent decision to strike a provincial Commission
of Inquiry on the Protection
of the Confidentiality
of Journalistic Sources, the many reports
of police
surveillance of journalists in Quebec that gave rise to the Commission are a reminder that Canada still faces substantial challenges in its
efforts to protect a free and independent press.»