Recent events in Boston inspired this blog post by Orin Kerr: … Assume the police enter a home without consent searching for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; does the entry violate the Fourth Amendment? The answer depends on whether such home entries are “reasonable” under the Fourth Amendment, which requires a case-by-case balancing of the government’s interest in making…
Category: U.S.
US amasses Big Data on 10 million people; banks protest
Carter Dougherty of Bloomberg reports: The new US consumer finance watchdog is gearing up to monitor how millions of Americans use credit cards, take out mortgages, and overdraw their checking accounts. Their bankers aren’t happy about it. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is demanding records from the banks and is buying anonymous information about at…
Grassley signals support for email privacy bill
Brendan Sasso reports: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said on Thursday that he expects the Senate Judiciary Committee will approve legislation that would require police to obtain a warrant to search emails and other private online content. “I would anticipate this year that there wouldn’t be any problem getting [the bill] out at whatever meeting you…
NJ: Gov. Christie Signs Measure That Bars ‘Spying’ On N.J. Students Via School-Issued Laptops
CBS/The Associated Press reports: Gov. Chris Christie has signed a measure intended to prevent New Jersey school districts from violating students’ privacy rights by tracking them through school-issued laptops. Districts that provide students with laptops, cell phones or other electronic devices will now have to provide written notification that the device may track them. The…