Mark McGuire reports: The Fourth Amendment question here is not about the seizure, but the search that came afterward. A Berne parent grew outraged after a school principal confiscated his son’s phone earlier this week after being caught texting in class. It’s not the confiscation of the 14-year-old’s iPhone 5 that caused the ire, but rather…
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EPIC to Argue for Location Privacy in NJ Supreme Court Today
From EPIC.org: The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in State v. Earls, an important case regarding the privacy of cell phone location information. At issue is whether real-time location data should be disclosed by a cell phone provider without a warrant or a court order. EPIC Appellate Advocacy Counsel Alan Butler will…
Twitter Transparency Report v2
From Twitter’s blog: Last July we released our first Twitter Transparency Report (#TTR), publishing six months of data detailing the volume of government requests we receive for user information, government requests to withhold content, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act-related complaints from copyright holders. Since then we’ve been thinking about ways in which we can more effectively share…
Appeals court to activists: Nope, you can’t see what else the Feds have on you
Cyrus Farivar reports: On Friday, a federal appeals court in Virginia ruled (PDF) that three activists involved in a WikiLeaks investigation have no right to find out what companies the government sought information from other than Twitter. In November 2011, a district court judge found that prosecutors could compel Twitter to give up specific information on the three accounts,…