Kimberly Pohl reports: Jason Senne doesn’t dispute that he illegally parked overnight in Palatine, but the contents of the citation he received are an entirely different story. The Palatine man is suing the village for listing personal information on his Aug. 20 ticket – visible for five hours on his parked Acura in the area…
Category: Court
Breaking News on EFF Location Privacy Win: Courts May Require Search Warrants for Cell Phone Location Records
Woo hoo! Kevin Bankston of EFF writes: This morning, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia issued its highly anticipated ruling in a hotly contested cell phone location privacy case. EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief andparticipated at oral argument in the case, arguing that federal electronic privacy law gives judges the discretion to deny government requests for…
Va. court: Police can use GPS to track suspect
Larry O’Dell of the Associated Press reports on an unsurprising verdict: The same GPS technology that motorists use to get directions can be used by police without a warrant to track the movements of criminal suspects on public streets, the Virginia Court of Appeals said Tuesday. In a case that prompted warnings of Orwellian snooping…
ACLU: “Americans do not surrender their privacy and free speech rights when they travel abroad.”
From the ACLU, background on the lawsuit they filed this morning in federal court in New York to stop suspicionless border searches of electronic devices: The American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Layers (NACDL) today filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s…