Lawsuit Seeks Information on Three Controversial Surveillance Provisions in Advance of Congressional Debate The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against the Department of Justice (DOJ), demanding records on three controversial PATRIOT Act surveillance provisions that expire early next year unless Congress renews them. EFF is seeking the immediate release of Federal Bureau of…
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Hearing on Gizmodo iPhone warrant scheduled
Declan McCullagh reports: A judge in Silicon Valley will hear arguments later this week in a dispute over unsealing records about the criminal investigation into what may have been a prototype iPhone purchased by a gadget blog. San Mateo County Judge Clifford Cretan has scheduled a hearing for 9 a.m. PDT Friday in his courtroom…
Lawsuit Wants SEC to ID Porn Snoopers
Jim McElhatton reports: The Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a federal lawsuit for keeping secret the names of dozens of its supervisors, employees and contractors who spent their workdays looking at pornography on their government computers. The lawsuit, filed Friday by a Denver- and Washington-based law firm, accuses the SEC of violating federal open-records…
Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
Orin Kerr writes: In Georgia v. Randolph, the Supreme Court held that the government cannot search the premises based on the consent of one occupant if another occupant of the same premises is present and objects to the search. The Third Circuit recently decided an interesting question: Does Randolph apply to a seizure of a…