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Government

Feb. 19, 2011

Activists Seek U.S. Surveillance Documents

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is seeking documents related to the FBI's efforts to increase its surveillance capabilities in keeping with new communication technologies like Skype.


By Rebecca Beyer


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - The ongoing debate over the wobbly balance between freedom of speech, privacy and national security played out on both coasts Thursday as a federal judge and congressional committee heard arguments about law enforcement surveillance and new communications technologies.


A consumer rights organization asked a federal judge for the Northern District to order the Department of Justice, th...

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