Senators are set to return to Capitol Hill on Sunday when they’ll try to break an impasse over the PATRIOT Act, the counter terrorism law passed just after 9/11. The major obstacle is Section...
Appeals court rules NSA telephone metadata surveillance program is illegal French lower house passes sweeping security bill some call Patriot Act à la française Justice Department opens civil rights probe of Baltimore Police Department...
The French National Assembly overwhelmingly passed a measure Tuesday that would beef-up intelligence-gathering powers in the country. Four months after the attacks at the offices of Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket in Paris,...
Saudi Arabia and Iran wage proxy war in Yemen Pushing back for privacy via legislation and the courts U.S. Supreme Court considers limits on toxic power plant emissions Thousands of farmworkers strike against work...
The USA PATRIOT Act expires in June and Congress will once again face a debate on privacy and bulk surveillance. Two members of Congress have reintroduced a bill to rein in the surveillance programs...
As many as two thousand feared dead after Boko Haram attack on Nigerian town Cross-border Boko Haram attacks displace students in Cameroon’s Far North Region Senate set to pass Keystone XL bill; Obama vows...
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act – or CISPA – is back. The controversial bill, which would allow companies to share individuals’ personal information and Internet traffic with the U.S. government in the...
The U.S. Senate is due to vote on cloture – a move to end debate – on the USA Freedom Act this evening. The bill was originally introduced to reform the NSA’s dragnet surveillance...
Parliamentarians in Canada held a moment of silence Thursday in honor of the guard killed in an attack at Ottawa’s war memorial this week. The gunman later stormed the Parliament where the Sergeant-at-Arms shot...
Legal challenges to the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone call metadata are advancing through the US court system. One of three lawsuits against the NSA’s metadata collection was heard in a federal...
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