Kim Zetter reports: Former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden revived a controversial meme on Tuesday when he urged Congress to allow his former agency to monitor public networks in order to defend against malicious activity coming from nation states and others. “We’ve got capability on the sidelines wanting policy guidance,” he told the House…
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Will GPS Tracking Render the Fourth Amendment Quaint?
Jim Harper writes: If the government put a GPS monitor on your car and used it to track every vehicular movement of yours for four weeks, do you think that would violate your Fourth Amendment rights? The government would like to be able to do that kind of thing without getting a warrant, and the…
SCOTUS passes up chance to rule on whether a cellphone search of arrestees requires a warrant
The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a ruling that the police can search text messages from an arrested criminal suspect’s cell phone without obtaining a warrant. The justices refused to review the California Supreme Court ruling that upheld the search on the grounds that defendants lose their privacy rights for any items they are…
Illinois Eavesdropping Act Shields Public Officials From Public Scrutiny
Jacob Sullivan comments on an a On Jan. 13, 2009, Michael Allison brought a digital recorder to the Crawford County Courthouse in Robinson, Ill., where he was contesting a citation, because he had been told there would be no official transcript of the proceedings. He was immediately confronted by Judge Kimbara Harrell, who accused him…