Andy Greenberg reports: With the reintroduction of the much-maligned Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act scheduled for the day after the State of the Union, the House of Representatives may have hoped the President’s own cybersecurity initiative would divert some of the attention away from the controversial legislation known as CISPA. Instead, the White House’s…
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DHS: Border Device Search Policy Does Not Violate Fourth Amendment
Brian Donahue reports: The Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CLCR) has determined that the DHS’s warrantless, and often suspicion-less, search and seizure of electronics devices at U.S. borders does not violate the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search or seizure. The CLCR argues [pdf] that the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…
As Secretive “Stingray” Surveillance Tool Becomes More Pervasive, Questions Over Its Illegality Increase
Trevor Timm writes: A few months ago, EFF warned of a secretive new surveillance tool being used by the FBI in cases around the country commonly referred to as a “Stingray.” Recently, more information on the device has come to light and it makes us even more concerned than before. The device, which acts as a fake…
ACLU Files FOIA Request for Unreleased DHS Privacy Report on Laptop Searches at the Border
Katie Haas writes: Aiming to determine the impact of border searches on Americans’ civil liberties, the Department of Homeland Security has produced a report on its policy of combing through and sometimes confiscating travelers’ laptops, cell phones, and other electronic devices—even when there is no suspicion of wrongdoing. The report was completed sometime between October…