Orin Kerr writes: SCOTUSblog flags a pending cert petition on an interesting Fourth Amendment question: What limits, if any, does the Fourth Amendment place on the use of a trained drug-sniffing dog to approach the front door of a home? The police might do this to see if the dog will alert for the presence of narcotics in…
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Intel and Kraft’s iSample vending kiosks study shoppers
This seems eerily related to what Danielle Citron was writing about in another post on this blog this morning. Leo Kelion reports: A “smart” vending machine that analyses users’ age and gender has been launched in the US by Intel and Kraft Foods. The iSample is being used to offer customers trials of a new…
Twitter gets subpoena for account info related to OccupyBoston, notifies users (update2)
This is getting ridiculous. Really. Twitter received an administrative subpoena via fax on December 14 from the District Attorney of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The subpoena indicates that pursuant to a criminal investigation by the Suffolk County D.A.’s office and the Boston Police Department, Twitter is to provide, within 14 days, All available subscriber information, for…
Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices
From EFF: Our lives are on our laptops – family photos, medical documents, banking information, details about what websites we visit, and so much more. Thanks to protections enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the government generally can’t snoop through your laptop for no reason. But those privacy protections don’t safeguard travelers at the U.S. border,…