Cindy Cohn and Mark Rumold of EFF write: In light of the confirmation of NSA surveillance of millions of Americans’ communications records, and especially the decision by the government to declassify and publicly release descriptions of the program, the government today asked the courts handling two EFF surveillance cases for some additional time to consider their options….
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Massachusetts High Court Recognizes Right to be Free From GPS Surveillance
Hanni Fakhoury writes: In a landmark decision in Commonwealth v. Rousseau, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled this week that people “may reasonably expect not to be subjected to extended GPS electronic surveillance by the government” without a search warrant — whether they are driving the vehicle in question or not. Read more about the case and the…
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
As you can imagine, I’m still getting caught up with all the NSA-related privacy and surveillance news this week. I’ll have more on that later, but it seems that the whistleblower has been identified. Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill and Laura Poitras that he is Edward Snowden: a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and…
A Junk Decision on Warrantless DNA Collection
There’s already been a lot of commentary around the Internet on SCOTUS’s ruling in Maryland v. King on warrantless DNA collection. But if you haven’t seen this, read this analysis by Hanni Fakhoury and Jennifer Lynch of EFF: You lost some important Fourth Amendment protection when the Supreme Courtruled yesterday in Maryland v. King that the police can take a…