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Feds use social networking site to investigate citizenship petitions

donal brown October 14, 2010

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained information that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is using sites such as Facebook to investigate citizenship petitions. -db The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press October 13, 2010 By Stephen Miller The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital civil liberties group based in San Francisco, has received information through a federal Freedom of Information Act request documenting how U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services uses social networking sites to

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ACLU challenges searches of laptops at borders

FAC September 8, 2010

Civil rights lawyers sued the government yesterday to stop authorities from snooping in the laptops, cell phones and cameras of international travelers without probable cause. September 8, 2010 By The Associated Press NEW YORK — The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against the Department of Homeland Security as well as U.S. customs and immigration authorities. The lawsuit says more than 6,500 people have had their electronic devices searched as they crossed

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Immigration judge blasts leak in Obama’s aunt’s asylum case

FAC August 18, 2010

A judge who granted asylum to President Barack Obama’s African aunt ruled she deserved to stay in the United States because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organization, making her a potential target for persecution in her native Kenya. August 18, 2010 By The Associated Press BOSTON — U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro blasted the leak by the unidentified official in his 29-page ruling granting asylum to Zeituni Onyango in May.

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Freedom of Information Act request garners oversight report of alleged illegal intelligence activities

donal brown December 17, 2009

In response to its FOIA lawsuit in July, the Electronic Frontier Foundation saw the government release an intelligence oversight report that reveals intelligence activities some believe are illegal. -DB Electronic Frontier Foundation December 16, 2009 By Nate Cardozo Today the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the National Security Agency released 162 pages of intelligence oversight reporting in response to a Freedom of Information

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Secret Service denies access to 2009 White House visitor records

donal brown October 20, 2009

After the Obama administration agreed to start releasing visitor logs starting December 31,  the watchdog group Judicial Watch was denied access to White House visitor logs from January 20 through September 15 of this year and does not understand why only these records merit protection. The Secret Service just says the records do not come from a government agency and so are not subject to the Presidential Records Act. -DB The Reporters Committee for Freedom

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