Chris Soghoian wrote up the data he obtained under Freedom of Information as to how often the Department of Justice obtained customer account communications data from ISPs without a warrant. Chris writes: According to an official DOJ report, the use of “emergency”, warrantless requests to ISPs for customer communications content has skyrocketed over 400% in…
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ACLU Seeks Details on Government Mobile Phone Tracking in Massive Nationwide Information Request
In a massive coordinated information-seeking campaign, 34 American Civil Liberties Union affiliates across the nation today are sending 379 requests to local law enforcement agencies large and small demanding to know when, why and how they are using cell phone location data to track Americans. The requests, being filed under the states’ freedom of information…
Can school personnel search your child’s bra without individualized suspicion?
Can your teenage daughter’s school personnel lift or search her bra if the whole school is going through a search for drugs? Not if there’s no individualized reasonable suspicion of her, according to a North Carolina decision. Via FourthAmendment.com, from In re T.A.S., 2011 N.C. App. LEXIS 1472 (July 19, 2011): Where the blanket search of the…
U.S. Appeals Court: OK to check DNA of those arrested
Rich Lord reports: A closely divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found that the collection of DNA samples from people arrested — but not yet convicted — of crimes is constitutional, in an opinion released today. In a precedent-setting ruling, the appeals court rejected U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone’s 2009 order finding…