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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...
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Senate committee approves reauthorization of expiring Patriot Act provisions
October 8, 2009
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] voted 11-8 Thursday to approve [press release] legislation [S 1692 materials] reauthorizing three provisions of the USA Patriot Act [JURIST news archive] set to expire at the end of the year. The portions of the act to be renewed allow fe....... [more]
Peru ex-president Fujimori sentenced to 6 years for illegal wiretapping and bribery
October 1, 2009
[JURIST] The Criminal Chamber of the Peruvian Supreme Court on Wednesday sentenced [materials, in Spanish] former president Alberto Fujimori [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] to six years in prison for multiple counts of illegal wiretapping and bribery. Fujimori is to serve his sentence concurrentl....... [more]
Peru ex-president Fujimori pleads guilty to illegal wiretapping and bribery
September 29, 2009
[JURIST] Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] pleaded guilty Monday to multiple counts of illegal wiretapping and bribery. Fujimori was charged with ordering former Peruvian intelligence director Vladimiro Montesino [BBC profile] to use government funds to se....... [more]
Federal judge dismisses challenge to overseas wiretapping law
August 21, 2009
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] on Thursday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] challenging amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [text; JURIST news archive] that expand government power to ea....... [more]
Germany high court rules intelligence may not be withheld from parliament
July 31, 2009
[JURIST] Germany's Federal Constitutional Court [official website, in German] ruled Thursday that the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) [official website, in German] may not withhold information from parliament without good cause. The case began in 2006 [DW report] when the BND refused to te....... [more]
Federal judge finds CIA committed fraud, orders documents unsealed
July 21, 2009
[JURIST] Chief judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Royce Lamberth found [opinion, PDF] Monday that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] committed fraud in its efforts to keep documents related to eavesdropping allegations a secret. The....... [more]
Greece lawmakers approve DNA database and surveillance camera law
July 17, 2009
[JURIST] The Greek Parliament [official website, in Greek] voted Wednesday to approve legislation that would create a DNA database and allow the use of surveillance cameras in fighting crime. The measure, supported by the ruling conservative New Democracy [party website, in Greek] party, would allow....... [more]
Bush administration lawyer defends warrantless wiretapping program
July 17, 2009
[JURIST] Former US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel [official website] lawyer John Yoo [academic profile; JURIST news archive] defended warrantless wiretapping [WSJ report] in an essay published Thursday by the Wall Street Journal [media website]. Yoo was responding to a report [text; J....... [more]
Multi-agency report questions presidential warrantless wiretapping program
July 12, 2009
[JURIST] The Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program [JURIST news archive], known as the President's Surveillance Program (PSP), relied on a flawed legal analysis at its inception and produced results of questionable effectiveness, according to an unclassified version of a report [text....... [more]
Islamic charity seeks summary judgment on NSA wiretapping case
July 10, 2009
[JURIST] The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation [JURIST news archive] on Wednesday filed [motion, PDF] a request for partial summary judgment [FRCP 56 text] concluding that the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] illegally wiretapped several conversations between the charity and its lawyer....... [more]
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