Adam M. Gershowitz of the University of Houston Law Center has an article in a forthcoming issue of the Iowa Law Review, “Password Protected? Can a Password Save Your Cell Phone from the Search Incident to Arrest Doctrine?” Here’s the abstract: Over the last few years, dozens of courts have authorized police to conduct warrantless…
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Border Sweeps in North Reach Miles Into U.S
Nina Bernstein reports: The Lake Shore Limited runs between Chicago and New York City without crossing the Canadian border. But when it stops at Amtrak stations in western New York State, armed Border Patrol agents routinely board the train, question passengers about their citizenship and take away noncitizens who cannot produce satisfactory immigration papers. […]…
Department of Homeland Security Sued Over Secret Traveller Files
Matt Smith reports: San Francisco travel writer Edward Hasbrouck has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over what he says is the agency’s refusal to give a complete accounting of secret files detailing his numerous border crossings around the world. “This is not something I’m doing lightly, or that I’m doing every day, or…
EDNY: SCA won’t cut it: historical cell data requires warrant
Chris Soghoian has uploaded a federal magistrate’s decision in Eastern District New York denying the federal government’s request for an order requiring Sprint Nextel to produce cell records, including tower and sector information for a subscriber’s phone. According to court documents, the Sprint subscriber was Edwin Espinosa, but the phone was allegedly being used by…