Syma Mohammed and Robert Verkaik report: Personal information concerning the private lives of almost 1,000 British Muslim university students is to be shared with US intelligence agencies in the wake of the Detroit bomb scare. The disclosure has outraged Muslim groups and students who are not involved in extremism but have been targeted by police…
Category: U.S.
Proposed law would keep inmates from data
The UPI reports: The U.S. Social Security Administration plans to propose legislation to ban prisoners from access to data that could be used for identity theft, officials say. Most states have laws barring inmates in training or work programs from seeing Social Security numbers and other personal data, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star reports. But…
Court: warrantless wiretap of Al-Haramain violated FISA
Maria Dinzeo reports: A federal judge ruled has ruled that government spying on a charity called Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation violated federal laws on domestic surveillance. The government admittedly relied on the surveillance of phone conversations between two of the non-profit’s lawyers and an Al-Haramain director in Saudi Arabia when it designated the group as a…
Communicating With Those Who Have No Privacy Rights: The Hard Question in City of Ontario v. Quon
Orin Kerr writes: On Monday, April 19, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in this Term’s only significant Fourth Amendment case, City of Ontario v. Quon. Quon considers whether a city violated the Fourth Amendment by obtaining copies of stored text messages sent over a city-provided text pager used by a city employee. In…