Kim Zetter reports: An outspoken supporter of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has won the right to sue the federal government over a border search-and-seizure that agents conducted in 2010 after his return to the US from a Mexico vacation. David Maurice House, an MIT researcher, was granted the right to pursue a case against the…
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Must love dogs? Supreme Court to rule on drug sniffing dogs
The Supreme Court granted certiorari today in Florida v. Harris – the second drug-sniffing dog case to be heard by the Court. Jane report: The US Supreme Court granted certiorari [order list, PDF] Monday in Florida v. Harris [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to determine whether an alert by a well-trained narcotics detection dog certified to detect illegal contraband is sufficient to establish…
FBI Turns Back On 2,750 Of The 3,000 GPS Devices It Turned Off For Lack Of A Warrant
Mike Masnick writes: In January, we wrote about the Supreme Court’s somewhat surprising ruling on GPS monitoring by law enforcement, in which it suggested (but didn’t fully say) that putting a GPS device on a car might need a warrant — a pretty easy process that the FBI just didn’t want to go through. Following this, we…
New counterterrorism guidelines permit data on U.S. citizens to be held longer
Sari Horwitz and Ellen Nakashima report: The Obama administration has approved guidelines that allow counterterrorism officials to lengthen the period of time they retain information about U.S. residents, even if they have no known connection to terrorism. The changes allow the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the intelligence community’s clearinghouse for terrorism data, to keep information…