Chris Soghoian has uploaded a federal magistrate’s decision in Eastern District New York denying the federal government’s request for an order requiring Sprint Nextel to produce cell records, including tower and sector information for a subscriber’s phone. According to court documents, the Sprint subscriber was Edwin Espinosa, but the phone was allegedly being used by…
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Article: Fourth Amendment Pragmatism
Dan Solove has a new article out, “Fourth Amendment Pragmatism,” in the Boston College Law Review. Here’s the abstract of the article, which will undoubtedly generate a lot of discussion: In this essay, Professor Solove argues that the Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy test should be abandoned. Instead of engaging in a fruitless game…
Congress may sneak through Internet ‘kill switch’ in defense bill
Daniel Tencer reports: A federal cybersecurity bill that critics say creates a presidential “kill switch” for the Internet could be added on to a defense spending bill and passed without much debate, technology news sources report. Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE), one of the sponsors of the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, told GovInfoSecurity.com…
Major cloud computing privacy legal issues remain unresolved
Steve Gantz writes: … From a legal standpoint, it appears that while many opinions exist on how privacy can be protected in the cloud, who should ultimately be responsible for that protection, and how law enforcement agencies and other government entities should treat cloud environments, there are more unresolved issues than there are settled ones….