David Kravets reports: A secretive federal court last year approved all of the 1,856 requests to search or electronically surveil people within the United States “for foreign intelligence purposes,” the Justice Department reported this week. The report (.pdf), released Tuesday to Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader from Nevada, provides a brief glimpse into the caseload of…
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Residents near music festival “required” to wear RFID armbands
The L.A. Times has reported that people who live anywhere within a mile of the site of the Coachella Valley Music Festival in Indio, California (and perhaps residents’ visitors, if any visitors were allowed?) were “required” to wear individually numbered RFID-chipped tracking bracelets throughout the two weekends of the festival: In 2011, the organization began using microchip-embedded…
Florida Supreme Court Deepens Lower Court Split on Searching a Cell Phone Incident to Arrest
Orin Kerr writes: I recently mentioned my new short essay, Accounting for Technological Change, 36 Harv. J. of Law and Public Policy 403 (2013), about how the Supreme Court should resolve the lower court division on the Fourth Amendment rule for searching a cell phone incident to arrest. In light of that, I thought I would flag…
Bill Gates Wants Cameras in Classrooms to Increase Student Participation
Susanne Pesel reports: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have funded the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET) which brings together volunteers and researchers “to build and test measures of effective teaching to find out how evaluation methods could best be used to tell teachers more about the skills that make them most effective and to…