Sentences with phrase «surveillance powers»

So we try to fit it into whatever intellectual framework we have: the lack of surveillance powers, western foreign policy, open borders, gun control.

As attorney general, you have overseen a dramatic expansion of government surveillance power in the name of national security.

Such sweeping surveillance powers can threaten the privacy of ordinary citizens, and thereby fundamental liberties.

There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia is fundamentally flawed.

She votes to vest vast new surveillance powers in the President.

The FBI Agents Association on Friday released a statement saying the agency's rank - and - file would not «allow partisan politics to distract us» after the release of a previously classified GOP memo alleging abuse of government surveillance powers by the Justice Department.

As increasing surveillance powers have long been a priority for Prime Minister May, her government might be unwilling to agree to robust protections of privacy.

France had already enacted a similar law widening surveillance power earlier in the year, and privacy advocates have drawn attention to its failure to stop the attacks.

The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.»

Congress has repeatedly extended executive surveillance powers without either determining whether they have actually helped security or how much they have undermined democracy by inhibiting participation in the political process.

He has been looking at the detail of the new economic surveillance powers that Brussels and Angela Merkel want.

Law enforcement will presumably push for greater surveillance powers, and civil liberty advocates will resist.

We are well aware of the tactics that government agencies utilize when prosecuting these cases, particularly their broad surveillance powers to collect crucial evidence in corporate and business fraud cases.

The bulk surveillance powers in the Bill mean that it won't always be the personal information of individuals posing a risk to national security that is accessed by the authorities.

Roll back state surveillance powers by ending the indiscriminate bulk collection of communications data, bulk hacking, and the collection of Internet Connection Records.

Just as the domestic law enforcement surveillance powers have expanded, the corollary powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act have also been greatly expanded, including:

As well as making it easier for the authorities to track individual's internet and mobile phone usage, the new law confers sweeping new surveillance powers on numerous government departments, allowing agencies including police and security services, the tax office, health authorities, benefits agencies and many others, to use malware and other equipment interference techniques to covertly monitor private conversations and access stored data.

The Obama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high - tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.

Mr Gear said that prices surveillance powers will continue to be a tool in those markets where competition is weak or lacking, and that the ACCC will continue the PSA's ongoing inquiry work.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers said a GOP - produced congressional memo on FBI surveillance powers did not clear Trump in the Russia investigation, and they expressed hope that special counsel Robert Mueller's work would continue without interference.

It may seem counterintuitive but awarding the security services more surveillance powers and more personnel, coupled with easing the process of obtaining warrants, will not make Britain any safer from terrorist threats.

OTTAWA — The furor generated by Bill C - 30, the government's proposed initiative to enhance the Internet surveillance powers of police, has brought privacy issues to the forefront and added new phrases to the Canadian lexicon, like «warrantless search» and «lawful access.»

The case is the latest stage in a protracted effort from the organisations to challenge the UK's extremely wide - ranging surveillance powers following startling revelations by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden.

Because when your client's legal issue involves the federal government and immigration and national security in the same sentence, it is reasonable to assume the federal government's considerable surveillance powers are focused on you.

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Acting for the Government in current judicial review proceedings challenging the compatibility of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and the legal framework for governmental surveillance powers generally with human rights.

Much of the U.K. authorities» domestic surveillance powers came from regulations based wholly on that directive, so the CJEU ruling made those regulations invalid too.

As previously reported, DRIP expands the authorities» surveillance powers so that foreign web communications service providers can be forced to hand over user information — despite the assurances of the U.K. government that it only maintains the «status quo».

The World Wide Web Foundation and the U.K. Law Society have both strongly criticized the British government for attempting to fast - track the new Data Retention and Investigation Powers (DRIP) Act, which is meant to keep existing surveillance powers going but which will actually expand them greatly.

But he failed to mention that Congress passed a law at the start of this year to extend unconstitutional, invasive NSA surveillance powers.

A UK parliamentary committee reviewing a proposed bill to increase government surveillance powers releases a report rejecting provisions in the measure requiring encryption backdoors in software.

Along with curbing technological innovation and passing along the costs to service providers and their customers, this casual expansion of surveillance powers poses a substantial privacy threat.

If your senator is on the Senate Intelligence Committee, write him or her today to oppose any renewal or expansion of PATRIOT surveillance powers, and to demand that the closed - door session be opened to the public.

He regretted that the company is bound what he termed as the country's «draconian laws» which gives security forces surveillance powers.

It looks like the British government is trying to extend its lawful surveillance powers to foreign ISPs and web services.

A statutory pillar of the NSA and FBI's mass surveillance powers, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is scheduled to expire at the end of the year.

In years past, Congress has responded to reauthorization deadlines facing surveillance powers in a predictable pattern.

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.

The real issues are the new economic surveillance powers and the failure of the Coalition to use Merkel's Treaty amendment to negotiate repatriation of some powers (as the Tory manifesto promised to do).

Thrown last - minute into a torrent of competing legislation, a new bill meant to expand the NSA's broad surveillance powers is the most recent threat to American privacy.

The Joint Committee on the draft bill concluded that the case for the bulk surveillance powers it contained, hadn't been made — and that those powers had the potential to breach human rights.

The two main bodies tasked with scrutinising state surveillance powers are demanding greater safeguards.

Dell's condemnation comes soon after Theresa May, the British home secretary, earlier this month unveiled a draft piece of legislation that proposes to grant UK spy agencies and law enforcement sweeping surveillance powers.

This means that proposals such as the recent US legislative proposal to require direct «cooperation» from companies bypassing key legal safeguards and increasing surveillance powers — to the detriment our rights and freedoms — would not be acceptable.

That includes control orders; pre charge detention; stop and search; the deportation of people engaged in terrorism in this country; measures to deal with organisations that promote hatred or violence; and the use of surveillance powers by local authorities.

After weeks of discussions with the Justice Department, Democrats on the House intelligence committee released Saturday a classified memo that counters GOP allegations that the FBI abused U.S. government surveillance powers in its investigation into Russian election interference.