MIT Technology Reviews reports: Apple and Facebook sent representatives today to Washington, DC, where senators pushed them to create lawful back doors to encrypted data. A decades-old debate: Government officials have long argued that encryption makes criminal investigations too hard. Companies, they say, should build in special access that law enforcement could use with a court’s…
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India proposes new rules to access its citizens’ data
Manish Singh reports: India has proposed groundbreaking new rules that would require companies to garner consent from citizens in the country before collecting and processing their personal data. But at the same time, the new rules also state that companies will have to hand over “non-personal” data of their users to the government, and New…
State Dept., DHS sued over requesting, retaining social media names of visa applicants
Andrew Blake reports: The Trump administration was sued in federal court Thursday over a new rule requiring nearly all visa applicants to list the handles they use on social media services. Attorneys representing two documentary film organizations filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in D.C. against the heads of the Departments of State and…
IL: State’s delay in getting blood draw showed no exigency for dispensing with warrant
From FourthAmendment.com: State’s own delays in attempting to get a blood draw showed lack of exigency for it. People v. Eubanks, 2019 IL 123525, 2019 Ill. LEXIS 1235 (Dec. 5, 2019): [*P66] Given the facts, the State’s original concession that sufficient exigent circumstances were lacking is not surprising. No evidence was introduced that the police ever…