Jim Harper writes: I have a piece on Internet privacy in the Wall Street Journal today. It’s one side of a “debate” on Internet privacy and tracking. I say be careful what you give up if you thwart online tracking—personalization, free content, and other goodies may go by the wayside. My “opponent” is Nicholas Carr,…
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Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking
From my heroes at EFF: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today firmly rejected government claims that federal agents have an unfettered right to install Global Positioning System (GPS) location-tracking devices on anyone’s car without a search warrant. In United States v. Maynard, FBI agents planted a GPS device on…
EFF Asks Appeals Court to Block Govt. Attempt to Turn Misdemeanors into Felonies
Is the government trying to make a mountain out of a molehill? From EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers asked a federal appeals court Thursday to block the government’s attempt to wrongly expand federal computer crime law, turning misdemeanor charges into felonies. In an amicus brief filed…
W.D.Tex. clarifies USMJs’ position on cell phone tracking orders, summarizing all the case law
Oops — I missed this one on FourthAmendment.com the other day: A Magistrate Judge of the Western District of Texas issues an opinion summarizing five years of case law to guide applications for cellular site location information (“CSLI”). In re United States for an Order: Authorizing the Use of a Pen Register and Trap and…