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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that the US government’s mass surveillance program exposed by Edward Snowden seven years ago was unlawful. The ruling was handed down as part of the court’s decision in a case involving four members of the Somali diaspora who were convicted for sending or conspiring to [...]

Introduction Amid the ongoing situation in India due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-19 virus, there have been a few instances where medical practitioners were attacked by an unruly mob. To counter extraordinary situations, extraordinary steps need to be taken, in furtherance of which the Uttar Pradesh Government and the Madhya Pradesh government have subsequently [...]

Julian Assange is an Australian hacker, famous for revealing US secrets relating to war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. A whole cache of classified information was published by Assange’s organization WikiLeaks, which revealed the details of the ruthless murders of innocent civilians and the capture of hundreds of innocent civilians in the US’s Guantanamo [...]

The US House of Representatives voted 278-136 Wednesday to approve a bill that would reauthorize several soon-to-expire laws that govern surveillance by federal law enforcement. The legislation has been a hard-fought compromise among lawmakers from both parties with differing priorities about privacy protections, reforms of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts, and allowing continued [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Monday that intelligence agencies do not have to disclose records relating to their “duty to warn” Jamal Khashoggi of threats against his life. The action was brought by the Knight First Amendment Institute (KFNI) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) against [...]

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the federal government is entitled to proceeds from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s new memoir and several speeches because he did not submit the material to federal agencies in advance. Snowden formerly worked as a contract employee of both the Central Intelligence (CIA) Agency and the National Security Agency [...]

The US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Edward Snowden for publishing a book, Permanent Record, in violation of non-disclosure agreements he had with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA). The complaint alleges that the book was published without first being submitted to the agencies for review. Snowden allegedly [...]

The High Court of the Indian state of Manipur on Monday ordered the government to release television journalist Kishorchandra Wangkhem from police custody. He was detained in November under the National Security Act for “activities prejudicial to the security of the state and to the maintenance of public order.” Wangkhem, who works for a local [...]

US Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rand Paul (R-KY) and Representatives Justin Amash (R-MI) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) introduced the Ending Mass Collection of Americans’ Phone Records Act on Thursday that would permanently prohibit the National Security Agency (NSA) from collecting phone records. Although Congress amended the PATRIOT Act in 2015, the NSA continued to collect phone records from American citizens. Some [...]

In the continuously unsettling matter of Otto Warmbier, Donald Trump and Kim Jung Un, a key legal point has been overlooked or obscured: Whether or not the North Korean leader actually knew of Mr. Warmbier’s brutal treatment, torture and death, he remains fully responsible for this crime under pertinent law. This is primarily because of [...]