Paul McDougall reports: Having given RIM a 60-day reprieve from a ban on Blackberry messaging traffic, Indian authorities have now set their sites on Google and Skype. As they did with RIM, authorities in the country are demanding access to data that flows across Google’s and Skype’s servers. “The notices to these entities will be…
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Fourth Amendment Stunner: Judge Rules That Cell-Site Data Protected By Fourth Amendment Warrant Requirement
While some of us were dancing a little jig and yelping “whoop-de-doo!” over a magistrate judge’s decision in New York, Orin Kerr was less than thrilled: A few federal court opinions have been making a big public splash recently by taking surprising positions on how the Fourth Amendment applies to location surveillance. The latest…
Department of Homeland Security Sued Over Secret Traveller Files
Matt Smith reports: San Francisco travel writer Edward Hasbrouck has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over what he says is the agency’s refusal to give a complete accounting of secret files detailing his numerous border crossings around the world. “This is not something I’m doing lightly, or that I’m doing every day, or…
Article: An End to Privacy Theater: Exposing and Discouraging Corporate Disclosure of User Data to the Government
Christopher Soghoian’s article, “An End to Privacy Theater: Exposing and Discouraging Corporate Disclosure of User Data to the Government,” will be published in an upcoming issue of the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, but you can read it now via free download from SSRN. Here’s how the article begins: Today, when consumers evaluate…