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The art of surveillance has been practised throughout history. Sun Tzu's The Art of War, for example, written in the fifth century BC, contains a chapter on The Use of Spies where he describes the different ways spies may be used to monitor enemy forces.The most crucial development that has taken place with the rise of democratic states over the last two to three hundred years is that the focus of state surveillance has shifted from external threats to the monitoring of the state's own population...[ GreenNet ]
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UK sued over exported surveillance technology
April 16, 2013
UK-based rights group Privacy International said Tuesday that it is suing the British government for refusing to divulge information concerning surveillance equipment sold by Gamma International. Gamma International is a software company whose FinFinisher software has been used in 25 countries incl....... [more]
Supreme Court rules copyrighted works can be sold secondhand from abroad
March 20, 2013
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. that the "first sale" doctrine applies to imported works. When Supap Kirtsaeng came to study at Cornell University, he realized that the same textbooks his peers used were sold at drastically lower prices in his home....... [more]
Supreme Court rules aid workers lack standing to challenge wiretapping law
February 27, 2013
The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in Clapper v. Amnesty International that a coalition of attorneys, journalists and rights organizations do not have Article III standing to contest Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The coalition was represented by the American C....... [more]
Navy lawyers: Guantanamo bugs did not breach detainee attorney-client privilege
February 13, 2013
Military lawyers from the US Navy on Tuesday said that surveillance equipment deployed throughout the Guantanamo Bay detention center was not used to breach attorney-client privilege. The officials indicated that devices used to record audio and video were routinely placed throughout the detention....... [more]
Drone Operations in Current US Counterterrorism Strategy in Africa
February 11, 2013
JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of the Ave Maria School of Law says says the US must pursue a full spectrum of "smart power" capabilities in Africa, to include but not be limited to the use of drones for surveillance or targeted killing strikes...The ongoing crises in Algeria and Mali have been....... [more]
Military judge refuses to halt USS Cole hearing
February 4, 2013
A military judge on Monday refused to halt further hearings in the 2000 USS Cole bombing trial. The chief US military judge at Guantanamo Bay Colonel James Pohl held that the defense attorney failed to present any evidence supporting allegations of eavesdropping. Lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri....... [more]
Governments abusing Internet surveillance and censorship technologies: report
January 16, 2013
A Canadian human rights group unveiled research Tuesday indicating that a number of nations are using American-made Internet surveillance technology which could be used to censor content and track their citizens. The group, Citizen Lab, published its report entitled "Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Globa....... [more]
US military judge restricts unclassified material in 9/11 trial
January 4, 2013
The chief US military judge overseeing the trial of the accused 9/11 conspirators, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, has ruled that lawyers cannot make public any material involved in the trial, including unclassified documents. The decision by Judge Army Col. James L. Pohl was issued on December 2....... [more]
US Senate reauthorizes FISA surveillance law
December 30, 2012
The US Senate passed the Reauthorization Act of 2012 on Friday in a 73-23 vote to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008 (FISA) for five years. FISA grants the National Security Agency (NSA) the authority to conduct surveillance of Americans? phone calls and emails....... [more]
US Senate voted to raise debt ceiling
December 24, 2012
On December 24, 2009, the US Senate voted in favor of a bill to raise the federal borrowing limit, or debt ceiling, by $290 billion per the recommendation of the US Treasury Department. The bill had been approved by the House of Representatives on December 16, 2009. This debt ceiling increase was th....... [more]
Supreme Court hears arguments on federal wiretapping law
October 30, 2012
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Monday. In Clapper v. Amnesty International the court heard arguments to determine whether advocacy organizations which represent or work with terrorist suspects, such as Amnesty International (AI) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) h....... [more]
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