NEW YORK –(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. Twitter sued the government today seeking to make public more information about how much user data it is being forced to hand over on national security grounds. The government says that Twitter’s transparency reports can address surveillance orders like National Security Letters only in very[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
Twitter Taking the Fight for #Transparency to Court
San Francisco, Calif.–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. As part of our latest transparency report released in July, we described how we were being prohibited from reporting on the actual scope of surveillance of Twitter users by the U.S. government. Our ability to speak has been restricted by laws that prohibit and even[Read More…]
ACLU Comment on Ninth Circuit Ruling for Marriage Equality
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today in favor of marriage equality, which is expected to bring the number of marriage equality states to 35 in short order. “This is another great legal moment this week for loving and committed couples. Today’s decision reflects the reality that[Read More…]
Federal Appeals Court Limits ‘Mandatory’ Immigration Detention
ACLU class action lawsuit argued federal government wrongly incarcerated more than 100 people a year in Massachusetts jails under “mandatory detention” provision. BOSTON –(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. In a ruling that could enable more than 100 Massachusetts detainees per year to argue for their freedom, the U.S. Court of Appeals for[Read More…]
State Department Briefing by Jen Psaki,Oct. 7, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014 – 1:05 p.m. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. QUESTION: Hi. QUESTION: Hello. QUESTION: Good Tuesday. MS. PSAKI: Happy Tuesday. Hi, Samir. Okay. I have two items for all of you at the top. General Allen and Ambassador McGurk are in Amman today, where they met with[Read More…]
CDC Report Shows Motor Vehicle Crash Injuries are Frequent and Costly
Americans spend more than 1 million days in the hospital each year from crash injuries Full impact of motor vehicle crashes. Entire Infographic Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. More than 2.5 million people went to the emergency department (ED) – and nearly 200,000 of them were hospitalized – because of motor[Read More…]
NASA Aeronautics Research Tests New Tool for Early Wildfire Detection
NASA researcher Mike Logan plans to use this small unmanned aerial vehicle to check for fires at a Virginia-North Carolina wildlife refuge as part of an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Image Credit: NASA Langley/David C. Bowman Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. NASA’s research in unmanned aerial systems[Read More…]
NOAA and Coast Guard Join to Preserve Historic World War I Shipwreck
Lightship sunk off North Carolina by German U-Boat Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–October 7, 2014. NOAA, with assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard, will manage the historic wreck of Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71, the only American lightship to be sunk by enemy action during World War I. The two agencies signed a[Read More…]
After Six Years of Inaction, Consumer Organizations Urge Feds to Implement Catfish Inspection Program
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2014. Today, a coalition of consumer and advocacy organizations including Food & Water Watch, the Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention, Consumer Federation of America, National Consumers League and United Food & Commercial Workers International Union called on the Office of Management and Budget to create[Read More…]
Job Openings Increase to 4.8 Million in August, 2014; Hires Decrease and Separations Steady
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—October 7, 2014. There were 4.8 million job openings on the last business day of August, up from 4.6 million in July, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. The hires rate (3.3 percent) was down and the separations rate (3.2 percent) was essentially unchanged in August. Within[Read More…]
