Rights group asks judge to stop wiretap program
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A U.S. civil liberties group asked a   federal judge on Tuesday to halt a contentious domestic spying   program that the U.S. government argues is essential to   national security.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked a federal court to make two Florida companies stop telephone pretexting and to pay back victims of the practice.
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Six human rights groups urged the U.S. government on Thursday to name and explain the whereabouts of 39 people they said were believed to have been held in U.S. custody and "disappeared."
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A divided federal appeals court today dismissed a case challenging a National Security Agency wiretap program, reversing a trial judgeâs order that the program be shut down.
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Two civil liberties groups have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, complaining that the agency&#39;s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) division has routinely searched many U.S. citizens&#39; laptops and other electronic devices and questioned them about their religious practices and political beliefs.The lawsuit, filed on&#160;Thursday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Asian Law Caucus, asks a federal judge to force CBP to comply with an information request, filed by the two groups on Oct. 31. The two groups filed a Freedom of Information Act request asking CBP to detail its policies for searching laptops, MP3 players, mobile phones, digital cameras, and other electronic devices. The two groups also sought information about CBP&#39;s policy on questioning travelers about political views, religious practices, and other activities &quot;potentially covered by the First Amendment&quot; to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion and speech.The two groups also wanted the CBP to explain its policy for responding to a traveler who refused to answer questions and its policy for allowing a detained traveler to contact a lawyer.Many residents of Northern California have reported that &quot;CBP officials have subjected them to lengthy and intrusive questioning upon their return to the United States,&quot; the complaint says. &quot;Individuals who protest such questioning or searches have been told that they have no choice but to cooperate as they are at an international border.&quot;In one case, Nabila Mango, a U.S. citizen coming home from the Middle East, was asked by customs agents at San Francisco International Airport to name every person she had met and every place she had slept during her trip, according to a news release from the civil liberties groups. Agents searched her Arabic music books, business cards, and mobile phone, the groups said.Another U.S. citizen, IT consultant Amir Khan, has been stopped multiple times when returning to the United States, the groups said. He&#39;s been questioned for hours, and customs agents have searched his laptop, personal notebooks, and mobile phone, the groups said.CBP officials have asked U.S.-based travelers about their families, volunteer activities, and educational backgrounds, the complaint says. In addition, they&#39;ve demanded to see files on laptops, browser histories, mobile phone directories, personal photographs, business cards, and other personal materials, according to the complaint.U.S. residents have a right to know the government&#39;s standards for border searches, said Marcia Hofmann, an EFF staff attorney. &quot;Laptops, phones, and other gadgets include vast amounts of personal information,&quot; she said in a statement. &quot;When will agents read your e-mail? When do they copy data, where is it stored, and for how long? How will this information follow you throughout your life?&quot;A CBP spokeswoman didn&#39;t immediately respond to a request for a comment on the lawsuit.
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The Bush administration on Friday asked a federal judge to delay enforcing her order for a halt to the government's warrantless communications surveillance program.
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The US Supreme Court dismisses a legal challenge to an eavesdropping programme started after 9/11.
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By HOPE YEN  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration asked an appeals court Thursday to step in immediately and dismiss a lawsuit over the government's warrantless eavesdropping program, calling a lower judge's ruling dangerous and wrong.  The Justice Department asked the 9th U.S.
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Washington can continue wiretapping without warrants until its appeal against a ban on the practice is heard, a US court rules.   A US government wiretap scheme breaches the constitution and should be halted at once, a judge says.
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Group says popular technique threatens U.S. security by sidelining other approaches more suited to decryption and the like.
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A civil rights group has asked a judge to order the U.S. government to turn over information about the deaths of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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A U.S. appeals court has ordered that a lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for a wiretapping program be dismissed because the plaintiffs haven't been hurt by the agency's actions.
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The Bush administration on Thursday asked a federal judge to toss out lawsuits seeking to unearth information about the U.S. telecommunications industry's alleged participation in a warrantless government eavesdropping program.
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Human rights group Amnesty International called on US law enforcement agencies on Tuesday to suspend use of Taser electric-shock weapons, demanding an independent inquiry into the devices, which Amnesty says have contributed to more
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The Bush administration opposed in U.S. court on Friday an effort to peel back a secrecy lid over its domestic counterterrorism wiretapping program, which critics say infringes on privacy and rights.
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A federal judge rejects a bid by Wired News and other media outlets to unseal whistle-blower papers in a lawsuit over surveillance of Americans. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Civil liberties groups bash vote as "get-out-of-jail-free card" for AT&#38;T and others accused of illegally opening their networks to the feds.