Sent in by a helpful reader… Dan Stamm reports: A curious office manager took the lid off an invasion of privacy that could have spread to bathrooms throughout the Philadelphia area. A man allegedly placed hidden cameras inside various women’s bathrooms. Matthew Hawkins of Lansdale, Pa. was arrested Tuesday after police allegedly found photos of…
Category: Surveillance
Statement of Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice before the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties concerning “Report by the Office of the Inspector General on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Use of Exigent Letters and Other Informal Requests for Telephone Records”
The testimony, here, makes clear that the FBI misused and abused exigent letters. In many cases, there was no real emergency and in many cases where the FBI said that subpoenas had been sought, they had not been sought at all. Fine’s testimony also describes how the FBI engaged in other improper practices such as…
EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search (updated)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) along with Google and numerous other public interest organizations and Internet industry associations joined with Yahoo! in asking a federal court Tuesday to block a government attempt to access the contents of a Yahoo! email account without a search warrant based on probable cause. The Department of Justice is seeking…
Some Thoughts on the Reply Brief in City of Ontario v. Quon
Orin Kerr writes: The Reply Brief in the Court’s only major Fourth Amendment case this term, the text-messaging case City of Ontario v. Quon, has now been filed and is available here. Here are a few thoughts on it. (1) The parties focus significant attention on the Stored Communications Act, somewhat to my surprise. The Stored…