A case mentioned on FourthAmendment.com caught my eye: Defendant consented to providing his passcode to his cell phone. Even if not, it was admissible because of inevitable discovery. United States v. Morales, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104053 (E.D.Mo. June 10, 2022).* I wish I could access the opinion because how would it be inevitable discovery…
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News items you might have missed
Here’s a smattering of news items compiled by Joe Cadillic: Activists Successfully Sue Marion County Sheriff for Illegally Sharing License Plate Reader Data: https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2022/06/activists-successfully-sue-california-sheriff-for-illegally-sharing-alpr-data/ EU Commission must withdraw new law to uphold online privacy, security and free expression – StateWatch https://www.statewatch.org/news/2022/june/european-commission-must-withdraw-new-law-to-uphold-online-privacy-security-and-free-expression/ ICE Searched LexisNexis Database Over a Million Times in Just 7 Months: https://theintercept.com/2022/06/09/ice-lexisnexis-mass-surveillances/ Delta’s…
You agreed to what? Doctor check-in software harvests your health data
Gregory Fowler reports: […] Several Washington Post readers recently wrote to Ask Help Desk about a consent form they were asked to sign while checking in for a doctor’s appointment. Most of us just hurriedly fill out whatever paperwork is put in front of us, but these eagle-eyed readers paused at this: “I hereby authorize…
Mandatory Student Spyware Is Creating a Perfect Storm of Human Rights Abuses
Daly Barnett of EFF writes: Spyware apps were foisted on students at the height of the Covid-19 lockdowns. Today, long after most students have returned to in-person learning, those apps are still proliferating, and enabling an ever-expanding range of human rights abuses. In a recent Center for Democracy and Technology report, 81 percent of teachers said their schools…