Ontario court rules police cellphone data collection violated human rights
The Ontario Superior Court on Thursday ruled that police orders requiring telecommunications companies to hand over cellphone user data breached the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms . The orders, labeled "tower dumps," demanded [Globe and...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday issued an order allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to continue compiling telephone records of a California-based law firm. Last...
Federal judge rules against part of NSA phone surveillance program
A federal judge on Monday ruled against part of the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance program that collects domestic phone records in bulk. Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of...
Federal appeals court refuses to block bulk phone data collection
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday denied a motion by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to halt the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other human rights organizations...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday brought a lawsuit asking a federal appeals court to review a National Security Agency (NSA) phone data surveillance program. The motion filed by the ACLU...
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled Monday that the National Security Agency(NSA) may temporarily resume its program of systematically collecting Americans' phone data in bulk. The program lapsed on June 1 after the...
The French Parliament on Wednesday adopted a surveillance bill that would give French intelligence services the authority to monitor Internet use metadata. It is reported that the bill also allows for court...
On June 2, 2015, nearly 14 years after enactment and only one day after many of its provisions had expired, the USA PATRIOT Act was limited by the passage of the USA Freedom Act through the US Congress. The USA...
Following a debate in Congress over the reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act, three sections were allowed to expire on June 1, 2015. Earlier, the House of Representative had passed the USA Freedom Act. Despite this Sunday night session of...
