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Two French human rights groups filed a lawsuit in Paris Thursday calling for an investigation into whether the US National Security Agency (NSA) PRISM program violated French privacy laws. The lawsuit, filed...
Allow Google, Microsoft to disclose national security order data: rights groups
Civil liberties groups filed an amicus curiae brief Monday in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) supporting efforts by Google and Microsoft to publish data concerning how many times the government invoked federal...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that the National Security Agency (NSA) illegally surveilled "millions of...
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Monday filed an emergency petition with the US Supreme Court challenging the National Security Agency (NSA) telephone record surveillance program. EPIC is arguing [press...
AI: US interference with Snowden asylum violates human rights
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday said that US authorities' efforts to thwart Edward Snowden's attempts to seek asylum amount to serious human rights violations. According to Wikileaks , a whistleblower website, Snowden submitted ...
Bolivia ambassador demands consequences for diverting president's plane
The Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Sacha Llorenti, claimed on Wednesday that it was an act of aggression for European countries to deny the president of Bolivia, Evo Morales , the right to fly through their airspace. Llorenti...
Activist attorney and former government prosecutor Larry Klayman filed a class action lawsuit on Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia , challenging the government's recently revealed phone data collection. Klayman, founder...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in conjunction with the New York Civil Liberties Union filed suit Tuesday against the National Security Agency (NSA) challenging its recently revealed phone data collection. As a...