Orin Kerr’s commentary on GPS surveillance and the Fourth Amendment has seemingly inspired John Wesley Hall, Jr. of FourthAmendment.com to offer his own commentary: My personal view is not far off, but with a caveat: United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983), and United States v. Karo, 468 U.S. 705 (1984), two beeper tracking…
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Orin Kerr: Does the Fourth Amendment Prohibit Warrantless GPS Surveillance?
Orin Kerr provides his analysis and views on the issue over on The Volokh Conspiracy. Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to conduct surveillance of a government-installed GPS device, such as a device installed on a suspect’s car to monitor the car’s location? This issue comes up occasionally, and the DC Circuit has a…
New Swedish law draft for centralized internet and telephony interception
From WikiLeaks.org: This file presents a draft law for internet and telephony spying from the Swedish department of justice. The document was mentioned, but not released, by Svenska Dagbladet on Dec 12, 2009 [1]. The legislation is aimed at giving Swedish police and domestic intelligence the power to automatically intercept internet traffic that passes through…
Google Faces a Different World in Italy
Eric Pfanner reports on the trial of four Google executives in Milan. They have been charged criminally in conjunction with a video that appeared on Google Video that showed a disabled student being set upon by four teens who actually taped and uploaded the video. Google executives have been charged with privacy invasion as well…