Wiretap evidence ban to be lifted
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Â· Change backed by police and civil rights groupsÂ· New review to examine practicality and safeguards
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As government surveillance has increased, violations of federal wiretap law have become a regular if little-noticed occurrence.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday he will turn over secret documents detailing the government's domestic spying program, ending a two-week standoff with the Senate Judiciary Committee over surveillance targeting terror suspects.
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WASHINGTON-The Bush administration is expected to appeal a federal judge&#39;s decision striking down a Patriot Act provision empowering law enforcement to force telecom carriers and Internet service providers-including wireless operators-to turn over
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The federal judge who ordered a halt to   the Bush administration's program of domestic wiretapping on   Thursday allowed the surveillance to continue for a week to   allow an appeals court to weigh in on an issue expected to end   up with the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A divided U.S. appeals court strikes down a lower court's ruling that a federal government wiretapping program is illegal.
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Europe's solution to the SWIFT problem The European Parliament has recommended that the only logical way to stop US anti-terrorist investigators from illegally snooping on European financial transactions is to get the firm handling them to remove its data from US shores.â¦
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The secret's out The UK government is looking to make wiretap evidence admissible in court as part of its latest review of anti-terrorism legislation.â¦
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Government lifts ban on the channel after it apologised for showing 'indecent programmes.'
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A judge ordered the Bush administration   on Thursday to stop a domestic wiretap program it says protects   Americans from terrorism but which the judge said violated   their civil rights.
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A U.S. Senate committee approved a bipartisan bill to tighten rules on government eavesdropping on terrorism suspects, but a Democratic presidential candidate said on Thursday he would try to block it.
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The Bush administration gave guarded support to several terrorist surveillance bills Wednesday as Congress took up the sensitive issue of how to give legal backing to the president's warrantless wiretapping.
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government's warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it.
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An independent review into use of intercept evidence in court cases will say it should be used, the BBC learns.
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A ban on patients and doctors using mobile phones in English hospitals is to be lifted, the government announces.
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A federal appeals court on Friday declined to force the government to turn over information on the National Security Agency's wiretapping program to a man charged in a terrorism case.
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The US Supreme Court dismisses a legal challenge to an eavesdropping programme started after 9/11.