Woo hoo! Kevin Bankston of EFF writes: This morning, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia issued its highly anticipated ruling in a hotly contested cell phone location privacy case. EFF filed a friend-of-the-court brief andparticipated at oral argument in the case, arguing that federal electronic privacy law gives judges the discretion to deny government requests for…
Category: U.S.
Va. court: Police can use GPS to track suspect
Larry O’Dell of the Associated Press reports on an unsurprising verdict: The same GPS technology that motorists use to get directions can be used by police without a warrant to track the movements of criminal suspects on public streets, the Virginia Court of Appeals said Tuesday. In a case that prompted warnings of Orwellian snooping…
ACLU: “Americans do not surrender their privacy and free speech rights when they travel abroad.”
From the ACLU, background on the lawsuit they filed this morning in federal court in New York to stop suspicionless border searches of electronic devices: The American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Layers (NACDL) today filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s…
New lawsuit to challenge laptop searches at U.S. border
Ellen Nakashima reports: Criminal defense lawyers, press photographers and a university student are challenging the Obama administration’s search policy permitting officers at U.S. borders to detain travelers’ laptop computers and examine their contents even without suspecting the traveler of wrongdoing. In a federal lawsuit to be filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York,…