No, says the Indiana Court of Appeals in Garcia-Torres v. State: After comparing cheek swabs with other searches requiring only reasonable suspicion, we conclude that the DNA sample collection technique at issue here, although minimally invasive, is also one of those limited searches that requires only reasonable suspicion and may therefore be conducted without a…
Category: Surveillance
Police keep data about demonstrators’ relatives
Bae Hyun-jung reports: Family members of those who violated the law on assembly and demonstration have their personal information recorded in the police database, without their knowing, said a lawmaker. “The police, in trials involving the candlelight vigil participants, submitted as evidence the past criminal records of their family members who were not involved in…
Appeals court hears warrantless wiretapping arguments
Steve Bagley reports: The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Friday by an advocacy group seeking to force the government to reveal whether its clients were wiretapped during the Bush administration. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed Wilner v. National Security Agency to determine if the attorney-client privilege…
Unconstitutionality of law on telecommunication data retention
If I’m understanding this article correctly, the Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) has declared certain provisions of Law 298/2008 on telephone data storage unconstitutional because the law violates articles of the Romanian Constitution. The court considered the matter in a dispute between Orange Romania and the Commissariat for Civil Society (CSC). The text of the…