Jaikumar Vijayan reports on oral argument in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday: Individuals have no reasonable expectation of privacy in historical cell phone location data collected and maintained by phone companies, a federal prosecutor said in oral arguments Monday before a three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans….
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Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists – Senate report reveals uselessness of fusion centers for fighting terrorism
Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo of Associated Press reports: A multibillion-dollar information-sharing program created in the aftermath of 9/11 has improperly collected information about innocent Americans and produced little valuableintelligence on terrorism, a Senate report concludes. It portrays an effort that ballooned far beyond anyone’s ability to control. What began as an attempt to put local,…
Justice Dept. to defend warrantless cell phone tracking
Nice recap by Declan McCullagh of a case being argued in the Fifth Circuit today: The Obama administration will tell federal judges in New Orleans today that warrantless tracking of the location of Americans’ mobile devices is perfectly legal. Federal prosecutors are planning to argue that they should be able to obtain stored records revealing the minute-by-minute…
Why Facebook’s Argument Against Privacy For Minors Is Doomed
Dave Copeland argues that Facebook’s First Amendment objections to strengthening COPPA are “weak, self-serving, and bound to fail.” Facebook had submitted a letter arguing that because the Commission’s proposal would “restrict the ability of users who are 13 years old or older to ‘Like,’ comment on, or recommend the websites or services on which those plugins are integrated,…