You may not be able to hear me shouting,”THIS.” but I’ve uploaded the text of the Conyers and Nadler bill, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Modernization Act of 2012, here (their press release can be found here). The bill is what many of us have hoped for. It not only sets a warrant standard, but it mandates…
Category: Laws
DNA and the Fourth Amendment
An editorial in yesterday’s New York Times begins: Earlier this year, Maryland’s highest court held that collection of DNA samples from people arrested but not yet convicted violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures. Last week, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. stayed that ruling while the Supreme Court decides whether to hear Maryland’s appeal of the…
Merkley Introduces Bill to Prevent Warrantless Surveillance of Americans
On Thursday, Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Protect America’s Privacy Act, which would reform the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to ensure that intelligence agencies are not using a warrantless wiretapping program to collect and store emails and phone calls of American citizens. Under amendments to FISA passed during the Bush administration, the intelligence…
ACLU sues to stop online financial disclosure requirement for federal workers
Ann E. Marimow and Ed O’Keefe report: Thousands of high-level federal employees turned to the court system Thursday to try to block requirements that would for the first time publish their personal financial information online. The American Civil Liberties Union, in a lawsuit filed at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, called the Internet disclosure provision an…