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ACLU, EFF sue US gov't over mobile phone tracking

2008-07-02 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency's tracking of mobile phone users
 
Tags: mobile phone users, electronic frontier foundation, aclu, federal court, eff, department, records, justice, agency
 
 
 
 
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ACLU files lawsuit to challenge surveillance law

2008-07-10 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and several other groups have filed a lawsuit in an effort to strike down a new law allowing the U.S. government to intercept the phone calls and e-mail messages of people with suspected ties to terrorism
 
Tags: aclu, law, e-mail messages, phone calls, lawsuit, government, effort, ties, strike
 
 
 
 
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Sensitive Milwaukee County information posted to Web

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2008-02-13 17:06:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...ACLU ALERT Chris Ahmuty, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, said the county's sloppy handling of confidential information could expose it to a lawsuit for invasion of privacy Evan] We need more lawsuits like we need a hole in the head It seems like careless disrespect for the rights of individuals...
 
Tags: milwaukee county, milwaukee county officials, information, county, county officials, sensitive personal information, confidential information, county clerk, county records crg
 
 
 
 
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Supreme Court Denies ACLU Wiretap Appeal

2008-02-19 19:05:00 by Associated Press in Wired Security
 
The justices deal a blow to privacy advocates and civil rights activists while bolstering the Bush administration's secret wiretapping campaign
 
Tags: civil rights activists, bush administration, justices deal, campaign, secret, privacy
 
 
 
 
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Rights groups seek court OK to intervene in Wikileaks case

2008-02-28 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU are among a growing number of public interest groups trying to get a federal court judge to reconsider a decision shuttering a whistle-blower Web site
 
Tags: whistle-blower web site, federal court judge, electronic frontier foundation, aclu, reconsider, public, decision
 
 
 
 
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Privacy advocate, ACLU hit new Virginia privacy law

2008-03-19 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b2070c in Network World on Security
 
A Virginia-based privacy advocate who has been fighting to stop county and state governments from posting public records containing Social Security numbers on their Web sites is now preparing to do battle against an amendment to a Virginia law that bars individuals from disseminating any of those numbers, even if they obtain them legally from...
 
Tags: public records, bars individuals, web sites, social security, stop county, virginia law, privacy, amendment, battle
 
 
 
 
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NSA's Domestic Spying

2008-03-26 06:02:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...ACLU comments : I mean, when we warn about a " surveillance society ," this is what we're talking about. This is it, this is the ballgame. Mass data from a wide variety of sources -- including the private sector -- is being collected and scanned by a secretive military spy agency. This represents nothing less than a major change in American...
 
Tags: nsa, data haul, haul, information, transactional information, data, nsa receives, mass data, terrorism information awareness
 
 
 
 
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Schneier Video on Terrorism

2008-04-18 13:30:48 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
On 10 June 2006, I gave a talk on security theater and terrorism to the New Jersey ACLU. Here's the video
 
Tags: video, jersey aclu, security theater, terrorism, talk, june
 
 
 
 
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FBI agrees to withdraw National Security Letter served on Internet Archive

2008-05-07 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The ACLU and the EFF are jointly claiming victory in a battle to get the FBI to withdraw a National Security Letter and the associated gag order served on the Internet Archive
 
Tags: national security letter, internet archive, withdraw, fbi, aclu, battle, victory, gag, jointly
 
 
 
 
 
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