ACLU launches anti-surveillance campaign
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A civil rights group filed complaints with utility commissions and attorneys general in 20 states Wednesday, demanding that authorities probe whether phone companies broke laws by sharing customer records with the government&#039;s biggest spy agency.
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An executive order issued Friday night creates an agency to safeguard privacy and civil rights laws, but critics see problems with the apointees and the apparent lack of power. By Ryan Singel.
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The practice of stopping people at New  England's main airport and detaining them for questioning based  on their behavior is unconstitutional and must be stopped, the  American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed on  Wednesday.
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Rights campaigners protested Tuesday over a device used to disperse unruly young people by emitting a high-pitched noise which only they can hear.
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Unless you want to leave it to industry The European Commission has opened a public consultation on the use of surveillance technology in civil society.â¦
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Absentee ballots mailed by Florida elections supervisors too late for possibly thousands of voters to return them on time should still count, the American Civil Liberties Union argued in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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The American Civil Liberties Union  on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking to force the FBI to  disclose information about its questioning of Arab Americans  and Muslims in the agency's drive to thwart any pre-election  attack.
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The national American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday accused the city's black mayor of civil rights violations including racial profiling in his crusade to stem crime in Mississippi's capital city.
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New York City employee pension funds are calling on two top Internet companies to do more to protect free speech in repressive countries, joining a year-old campaign by human rights groups.
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Justice commissioner wants a register holding fingerprints and pictures of all visitors in an effort to keep out illegal immigrants
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Industry group will offer a free program to help users find and eliminate illegal files. The Motion Picture Association of America this week announced that it has begun filing lawsuits against people who use
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The Bush administration, facing withering criticism over its temporary foreign intelligence wiretap law, has launched a campaign to assure Democratic lawmakers that the law will not result in domestic surveillance without a court order, and at the same time it has indicated that it is willing to ...
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Amnesty International marked its 45th  anniversary on Sunday by launching a global campaign to stamp  out state censorship of the Internet.
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FBI interviews and surveillance of at least a dozen political activists in Kansas and Missouri prior to the Democratic National Convention amounted to intimidation, contends the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Civil liberties advocates urged a White House privacy board Tuesday to review aggressively the government's warrantless surveillance program, even as they questioned whether it has the power to do so.
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A civil liberties group Thursday filed two federal lawsuits alleging that hundreds of people were illegally arrested during the Republican National Convention.