FourthAmendment.com covers a decision out of the Southern District of Texas that held that cell phone location data is subject to the Fourth Amendment because it can reveal information from within the home. From: In re Application of the United States of America for Historical Cell Site Data, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115529 (S.D. Tex….
Category: Court
Judge’s Ruling Favors DOJ in E-mail Search Warrant Dispute
Mike Scarcella writes: When the government serves a search warrant on an Internet service provider to seize the contents of an e-mail account, prosecutors have no obligation to notify the account holder, a federal judge in Washington ruled this week. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia overturned…
Law Requiring Convicted Sex Offender to Disclose All Internet Identities is Constitutional
Jonathan D. Frieden discusses a Tenth Circuit case previously noted on this blog. On October 26, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, decided a case involving a sex-offender’s constitutional challenge of a Utah’s sex offender registry statute. Doe v. Shurtleff, 2010 WL 4188248 (C.A.10 (Oct. 26, 2010)). John Doe, a…
Google’s $8.5 million Buzz settlement a go
Cade Metz reports: Google announced that it has received preliminary approval for its $8.5 million settlement of a class action brought against Google Buzz, the Gmail add-on that tried to turn the company’s online email service into a social networking tool. […] Google also took the unusual step of contacting all Gmail users via email….