L. Gordon Crovitz discusses the U.S. v. Jones GPS within the context of how technology has changed expectations of privacy. You can read his article on Wall Street Journal. One particular statement in his article gave me pause. He writes: The Fourth Amendment is a rare part of the Constitution that explicitly requires judges to…
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How Much Privacy Do You Expect? The Death of Privacy In America
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley writes: Below is my column today in The Washington Post. The article explores the famed Katz test and whether, in trying to save privacy in America, the Supreme Court may have laid the seeds for its destruction. The test ties our privacy protections to our privacy expectations. Thus, as our…
New York Times Writer Loses Bid for FBI Data
Now what did Candidate Obama pledge about transparency? Adam Klasfeld reports: The FBI can shield its terrorism-investigation data from the prying eyes of New York Times investigative journalist Charlie Savage, a federal judge ruled. Savage repeatedly sought FBI data through the Freedom of Information Act for a series of articles exposing how federal authorities vigorously…
Judge Rules Feds Can Have WikiLeaks Associates’ Twitter Data (updated)
Kevin Poulsen reports the expected, but bad nevertheless, news: The Justice Department is entitled to records of the Twitter accounts used by three current and former WikiLeaks associates, a federal judge ruled Thursday, dealing a victory to prosecutors in a routine records demand that turned into a fierce court battle over online privacy and free…