In a settlement reached with human rights activist David House, the government has agreed to destroy all data it obtained from his laptop and other electronics when he entered the U.S. after a vacation, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Massachusetts announced today. House, who was then working with the Bradley Manning…
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Off to Rick Perry’s Desk: Bill to Nullify Warrantless Drone Spying (updated)
Texas is turning out to be a hotbed of privacy-protective legislation recently. D. Goodwin writes: A Texas bill that would nullify warrantless drone spying gained final approval this week and now heads to Gov. Rick Perry’s desk for his signature. HB912 would virtually eliminate all warrantless drone spying in the Lone Star State and criminalizes all…
Prosecutors’ use of mobile phone tracking is ‘junk science,’ critics say
Mark Hansen writes: At his trial last year on federal kidnapping and conspiracy charges, prosecutors sought to introduce cell tower evidence purporting to show that calls placed from defendant Antonio Evans’ cellphone could have come from his aunt’s house, where the victim was thought to have been held for ransom. That’s not unusual. Hardly a…
Unprecedented e-mail privacy bill sent to Texas governor’s desk
I was so intrigued reading this bill yesterday that I forgot to blog about it, it seems. Cyrus Farivar reports: Assuming that Texas Governor Rick Perry does not veto it, the Lone Star State appears set to enact the nation’s strongest e-mail privacy bill. The proposed legislation requires state law enforcement agencies to get a warrant…