As for PRISM, on June 8th America's director of national intelligence, James Clapper, issued a rare public statement acknowledging its existence, but stressing that it is lawful and operates under a secret court that oversees intelligence-gathering.
And it's hard to convince U.S. companies like Google, and recently PayPal, who froze his accounts and funds, that he's operating a lawful business — not aiding a nation that supports terrorism, a designation Cuba is still slow to shake.
Citizen Lab and others have repeatedly demonstrated that advanced "lawful intercept" spyware enables some governments and agencies, especially those operating without strong oversight, to target and harass journalists, activists and human rights workers.
For devices running the iPhone operating systems prior to iOS 8, and under a lawful court order, we have extracted data from an iPhone.
To add an institutional legal lens to the IAD framework follows from the assumption that participants in action situations (of setting up and operating a smart grid) intend to proceed in a lawful way, both as regards their actions as with respect to the outcomes, ultimately the smart grid system they aim to realize.
"Despite the virtually unanimous consensus of legal scholars and the overwhelming weight of legal precedent that waterboarding is illegal," the senators wrote, "certain Justice Department officials, operating behind a veil of secrecy, concluded that the use of waterboarding is lawful.
DACA is currently operating, but its expansion and the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program are stalled in the courts.
Private security companies are guarding British ambassadors who are operating in very difficult parts of the world, are helping the extractive industry to conduct their lawful business, are ensuring that ships can go across the Indian Ocean without being interfered with by Somali pirates.
It should take appropriate steps within its powers to see to it that effective, lawful human rights monitoring continues in the Gambia, and make a public statement in support of non-governmental human rights organisations operating in the country.
Operating since 2014, the Internet Research Agency ran an increasingly sophisticated campaign against the U.S. by "impairing, obstructing, and defeating the lawful functions of government," according to the indictment Mueller filed last month.
