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Joe Cadillic reminds me that video from Cato’s recent conference on surveillance is available online.  If you missed the conference, do check it out.

Because of HIPAA constraints, I can’t provide a lot of details, but when a teenaged patient was in my office with a parent, the teen complained that the parent had required the teen to download an app that enabled the parent to track the teen. “What do you think about parents tracking teens that way?” my patient asked me…

Orin Kerr writes: Regular readers will recall the mosaic theory of the Fourth Amendmentintroduced by the DC Circuit in United States v. Maynard, by which law enforcement steps that aren’t searches in isolation can become searches when aggregated over time. For the most part, judges have been pretty skeptical of the mosaic theory. For example, in the…

From EPIC.org: Beginning in 2015, many federal facilities will require a “Real ID” for entry where identification is required. Several states have opted out of the Real ID Act, a federal mandate to modify the design of state drivers licenses, raising questions about the ability of people in those states to access federal buildings and board commercial aircraft. EPIC, supported…