Jennifer Martinez reports: Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) plans to offer an amendment to cybersecurity legislation that would require law enforcement officials to procure a warrant before obtaining location data from a person’s cell phone, laptop or other gadgets. The bill — called the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act — hasn’t seen any action since…
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Ex-Wife Owes $20K for Spyware Divorce Scheme
Annie Youderian reports: The ex-wife of a wealthy businessman must pay him $20,000 for installing spyware on his computers and using it to illegally intercept his emails to try to gain an upper hand in their divorce settlement, a federal judge in Tennessee ruled. U.S. Magistrate Judge William Carter ordered Crystal Goan to pay ex-husband…
NSA whistleblowers: Government spying on every single American
Jason Reed reports: The TSA, DHS and countless other security agencies have been established to keep America safe from terrorist attacks in post-9/11 America. How far beyond that does the feds’ reach really go, though? The attacks September 11, 2001, were instrumental in enabling the US government to establish counterterrorism agencies to prevent future tragedies….
The Data Question: Should the Third-Party Records Doctrine Be Revisited?
Today’s recommended reading. George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr and Greg Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology, ponder how far the government can go in reading your email. Their essays can be found in Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law, a book published by the ABA Standing Committee on…