Sentences with phrase «surveillance practices»

For years, many surveillance practices were conducted in a legal void.

He covered the debates on Capitol Hill over authorizing the use of military force prior to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the expansion of government surveillance practices arising from Congress» approval of the USA Patriot Act.

Privacy Shield replaces the prior Safe Harbor arrangement, which stood for fifteen years before being invalidated by Europe's top court after a legal challenge that was largely focused on US government mass surveillance practices as a breach of EU privacy rights.

The litigation hinges on whether U.S. surveillance practices afford enough privacy safeguards.

This validates a claim by Signal founder, Moxie Marlingspike, that the app soared in popularity after the U.S. election — likely reflecting concerns about surveillance practices under President Trump.

The leaks reveal the widespread surveillance practices by security and espionage agencies in the US and allied countries.

Lib Dem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has established an independent review into surveillance practices.

The main body of the exhibition features contemporary works including photographs, videos, paintings, posters and installations that employ a wide range of tactics to attack, reflect upon or at any rate expose modern - day surveillance practices.

Kerr writes that, during Thursday's hearing, he «was struck by the bipartisan sense among the Judiciary Committee members of the need for some kind of increased oversight of Internet surveillance practices,» which led to a discussion of today's code and Kerr's proposed remedy.

common surveillance practices used by private insurers and ICBC and how the use of social media might negatively affect your claim

In early 2015, the community made an important step forward in its fight back against the Board's covert surveillance practices.

Its handbook In the Picture: a data protection code of practice on surveillance practice and personal information has been updated to deal with the topic (pp 29ff).

We demand states respect the human rights of their citizens, to cease such illegal surveillance practices, and be transparent about the use of purchased surveillance software, the cost to taxpayer in each case, and the legal and procedural guarantees that are used to prevent a massive intrusion on people's rights.

On data redress, European privacy campaigner Max Schrems — most famous for his legal challenge to US government mass surveillance practices that resulted in a 15 - year - old data transfer arrangement between the EU and US being struck down in 2015 — is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to set up a not - for - profit privacy enforcement organization to take advantage of the new rules and pursue strategic litigation on commercial privacy issues.

The company's endorsement of the Privacy Shield comes amidst criticism of it by privacy groups for failing to address concerns about U.S. surveillance practices.

The case will not only provide more details about government surveillance practices, but help to provide a better understanding of the warren of secret laws that the government has been using to demand information about citizens.

To avoid putting the company in a bad light, employees should be well - informed of the company's surveillance practices.

The company moved to 2048 - bit keys in 2013 amid public outrage over the National Surveillance Agency's surveillance practices.

«Our companies believe that government surveillance practices should also be reformed to include substantial enhancements to privacy protections and appropriate oversight and accountability mechanisms for those programs,» the company wrote.

He has also come out forcefully against the National Security Agency's mass surveillance practices — all ideas that tend to fly in the face of standard Republican thinking.

Mr. Alexander served as NSA director in 2013, when former contractor Edward Snowden revealed details about the agency's surveillance practices.

It also seemed to be contrary to the government's principle of consulting «only on issues that are genuinely undecided,» which was not the case, as the Court had already ruled that some surveillance practices found in the IPAct were inconsistent with European law.

Less than a year ago, however, new revelations came out about NSA surveillance as a result of Edward Snowden's leaks, and this time the Right was deeply divided: establishment Republicans continued to support the surveillance practices of the NSA, whereas conservatives and the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party voiced concerns about whether the NSA was giving the government too much power.

The former was true in this case, and as the authors described, was critically informative, with the «the potential to be highly transformative for prevention and surveillance practices.»

As he becomes more and more disillusioned with the government's surveillance practices, he ends up deciding to speak out and show the American people what's going on.

The tensions between collecting data, surveillance practices and expansion of social media on one hand, and liberty and subjectivity on the other hand are central point of the exhibition.

Henein Hutchison partner Scott Hutchison says companies are attuned to the public's growing discomfort with «offside» surveillance practices, following the Edward Snowden scandal.

Our aim is to investigate, expose and analyze Internet filtering and surveillance practices in a credible and non-partisan fashion.

For nearly 15 years, he has worked at the intersection of civil liberties and national security, litigating numerous cases involving airport security policies, government watch lists, surveillance practices, targeted killing, and torture.

By JIM DWYER — N.Y. TIMES In a rebuke of a surveillance practice greatly expanded by the New York Police Department after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge ruled yesterday that the police must stop the routine videotaping of people at public gatherings unless there is an indication that unlawful activity may occur.

The court has now asked the UK government to respond by 2 May to the claims that its surveillance practices unjustifiably breached Art 8 rights to privacy.