Michael Booth writes: A case heard by the New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday may clarify whether a passenger who doesn’t claim his luggage can assert a Fourth Amendment right against search and seizure of its contents. It’s a question that surprisingly has not yet been answered with a high court ruling, despite the frequency…
Category: Surveillance
KPK, govt at loggerheads over wiretapping
Irawaty Wardany and Novan Iman Santosa report: The government and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) are still in dispute on the planned government regulation on lawful interception with the KPK concerned by the complex bureaucracy it would have to face prior to wiretapping. “We have several objections to the idea. First, the obligation to get…
Yahoo!’s guide for LEAs revealed
Cryptome has posted a number of compliance guides for law enforcement agents seeking customer or subscriber information from Cox, Cricket, GTE, and Yahoo!, and other providers. While some of the files may be outdated by now, the Yahoo! guide is from December 2008, and Yahoo is trying to get it removed from Cryptome’s site. Yesterday,…
Side A: DJs Win Laptops Back
Jennifer Granick of EFF writes: Following a hearing in the San Francisco Superior Court today, DJs and party guests Justin Credible and Matthew Higgins had their illegally seized laptops returned to them. This is great news, and a real relief to the pair who have been without their machines for over a month. It started…