David Chanen reports: Brooklyn Center will become the latest law enforcement agency to install squad cameras that read license plates, another tool in its effort to reduce auto thefts. The data from the two cameras will be used by officers in real time to identify a stolen vehicle or a driver who is wanted for…
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More Information On Government Surveillance Of Americans Needed, Group Says
Dan Froomkin writes: Bush-era warrantless surveillance procedures continued by President Barack Obama remain so secret that neither the public nor members of Congress know how many Americans’ emails and phone calls are routinely dumped into a government database. But the likelihood that the government is violating Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights is sufficiently great that Congress…
Police seizure of text messages violated 4th Amendment, judge rules
Jon Brodkin reports: At 6:08am, on October 4, 2009, Trisha Oliver frantically called 911 from her apartment in Cranston, Rhode Island when her six-year-old son, Marco Nieves, stopped breathing. The Fire Department took Marco to Hasbro Children’s Hospital, where he was found to be in full cardiac arrest. He died 11 hours later. By 6:20am,…
Feds Say Mobile-Phone Location Data Not ‘Constitutionally Protected’
David Kravets writes: The Obama administration told a federal court Tuesday that the public has no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in cell-phone location data, and hence the authorities may obtain documents detailing a person’s movements from wireless carriers without a probable-cause warrant. The administration, citing a 1976 Supreme Court precedent, said such data, like banking records,…