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• DEA sued for snooping on international phone calls

  A bulk phone record collection program run by the DEA for decades violates U.S. fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch claims

• Ban killer Robocops before it's too late, rights groups say

  Autonomous robots would lack proper judgment to use lethal force, according to Human Rights Watch

• Privacy groups call on UN to condemn surveillance

  Vote on privacy resolution likely next week

• Privacy groups urge UN to adopt digital surveillance resolution

  Everybody should be able to use the Internet without fear of unwarranted interference, the groups said

• Activists, U.N. take aim at 'killer robots'

  International effort to outlaw or limit fully autonomous, weaponized robots is launched at the United Nations

• US Supreme Court justices question surveillance secrecy

  Justices ask a government lawyer how groups can challenge a spying program if they don't know if they're targets