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…
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Would the UK public really support CCTV if they knew more?
CCTV Core presents the results of a self-serving survey, here, while Big Brother Watch answers them, here. As BBW notes, the CCTV Core article on the survey fails to disclose the survey’s methods: how many people were surveyed and how were they recruited? Nor does the survey distinguish between belief and fact. Did the survey…
After months of nudging, ICO confirms TalkTalk probe
Tom Jowitt reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has confirmed it is looking into the process that TalkTalk uses to monitor the web addresses that its customers are using. The news that TalkTalk was monitoring its customers’ online activity, as part of a trial for a new anti-malware system, first came to light in late July….
Article: Can a Password Save Your Cell Phone from the Search Incident to Arrest Doctrine
Adam M. Gershowitz of the University of Houston Law Center has an article in a forthcoming issue of the Iowa Law Review, “Password Protected? Can a Password Save Your Cell Phone from the Search Incident to Arrest Doctrine?” Here’s the abstract: Over the last few years, dozens of courts have authorized police to conduct warrantless…