Sentences with phrase «state surveillance powers»

Not exact matches

In its current ossified form, the British state offers an unpalatable mix of medieval hierarchy and techno - authoritarianism, symbolised in recent weeks by an enthroned Queen Elizabeth II announcing plans to deepen the government's already vast powers of electronic surveillance over her subjects.

The issues around state power and surveillance raised by Edward Snowden's revelations should be an important theme in the upcoming general election, while the symbolic double anniversary of Magna Carta (aged 800) and the web (aged 25) offers an opportunity for critical reflection on how to upgrade fundamental liberties in response to new threats and re-imagine how technology can serve the common good.

While the rhetoric to justify enhanced surveillance has focused on portraying terrorists as the principal enemies to fight against, we should not forget that the human rights regime was established more than 60 years ago with the main aim to keep in check the power of the state and to prevent abuses against ordinary citizens.

We need to roll back the surveillance state, not give it new powers.»

Though Edward Snowden's name is dropped, there is not much attention to surveillance or spying, and the uses and abuses of connectivity as a tool of corporate and state power are barely explored.

In this work, Beloufa casts non-actors as world leaders declaring war on one another to solve fundamental issues in their countries; the resulting film is a candid, often politically incorrect study of power, employing streaming news media and reality television tropes to discuss themes of self and state surveillance, capitalist economies at odds, and communication mediated by cloudy, cross-wired channels.

Paralleling his long - term engagement with «the state of image making in situations of war», his work looks into notions of surveillance and expressions of masculinity, exploring the way different media apparatuses get employed in the service of power, resistance, and memory.

Transport Canada's web site states UAVs currently operate in «diverse environments,» including research, mineral exploration, police surveillance, border patrol, survey and inspection of remote power lines and pipelines, traffic and accident surveillance, emergency and disaster monitoring, cartography and mapping, search and rescue, agricultural spraying, aerial photography, promotion and advertising, weather reconnaissance, and fire fighting monitoring and management.

There have certainly been historic examples where state entities have expressed concerns over unjustified U.S. government access to domestic data through PATRIOT act powers or through quasi-legal surveillance programs such as the NSA's Internet monitoring regime instituted under FISA.

Data Privacy + Security Team lawyer Richard M. Borden participated in the Connecticut Law Review's annual symposium Privacy, Security, and Power: The State of Digital Surveillance at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford on January 27, 2017.

He states that: «Internet surveillance in the workplace is not at the employer's discretionary power -LRB-...) Even where there exist suspicions of cyberslacking, diversion of the employer's IT resources for personal purposes, damage to the employer's IT systems, involvement in illicit activities or disclosure of the employer's trade secrets, the employer's right to interfere with the employee's communications is not unrestricted.»

The law as it currently stands has weak annual reporting requirements from government agencies, does not provide much protection to Canadians from abusive treatment by foreign states, does not give the Privacy Commissioner order - making power, does not provide redress in cases involving harm, does not prevent over-collection of personal information, does not protect against surveillance where the data is not recorded, and does not feature security breach disclosure requirements.

Yu Wensheng stands accused of «inciting subversion of state power» and has been placed under «residential surveillance in a designated location», a de facto incommunicado detention for charges of «endangering national security».

This provision states that: «[N] othing in this part shall be construed to invalidate or limit the authority, power, or procedures established under any law providing for the reporting of disease or injury, child abuse, birth or death, public health surveillance, or public health investigation or intervention.»

According to the court, «in approving minimization procedures the Court is to ensure that the intrusiveness of foreign intelligence surveillances and searches on the privacy of U.S. persons is «consistent» with the need of the United States to collect foreign intelligence information from foreign powers and their agents.»

The so - called anti-bikie laws in various states that criminalise free association, and the latest tranche of government surveillance powers likewise illustrate the inexorable extension of state power.