From EPIC.org: Today, EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the National Security Agency in the United States District Court in the District of Columbia. The agency failed to respond to EPIC’s FOIA request for documents about an “Information Assurance” partnership with Google. EPIC previously appealed to the agency to comply with its legal duty to produce…
Category: Court
Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer Privacy Ruling
David Kravets writes: Bowing to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court Monday gutted its own decision that had dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. The 9-2 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies Miranda-style guidelines the court promulgated last year that were designed to protect Fourth Amendment…
Appeal Brief in Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking FOIA Case Filed
From the ACLU blog: On Friday, the ACLU, the ACLU of the National Capital Area, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed our opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in the lawsuit to enforce our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests regarding the government’s warrantless cell phone tracking practice. Read…
Borderline Privacy
Canadian attorney Michael Power has an interesting article about border searches involving electronic devices that compares the Canadian courts to U.S. law. He writes, in part: The United States has a formal policy on the subject of laptop border searches readily available; Canada doesn’t. We do, however, have case law. In R. v. Simmons, the Supreme Court…