Law professor Dan Solove’s article, Fourth Amendment Pragmatism, generated a good amount of discussion among privacy advocates and the legal community. In one discussion over on Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice blog, both Dan and law professor/former DOJ prosecutor Orin Kerr participated. Unlike some of us who think that Fourth Amendment case law has eroded Fourth…
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On Surveillance and Privacy
David Brin writes: We are in for a time of major decision-making as the Moore’s Law of Cameras (sometimes called “Brin’s Corollary to Moore’s Law”) takes hold and elites of all kinds are tempted to utilize surveillance in Orwellian/controlling ways, often with rationalized good intentions. Alas, many “champions of privacy and freedom” push the nebulous…
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…
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…