KTLA-TV reports: The Lancaster City Council approved a measure Tuesday to allow authorities to perform aerial surveillance to help fight crime in the city. Mayor R. Rex Parris says the plan will involve a $1.3-million, piloted Cessna 172 fixed-wing aircraft affixed with optical equipment that would circle the High Desert city at altitudes of 1,000…
Category: U.S.
Technology Rewrites the Fourth Amendment
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…
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…