Alan Charles Raul, who served as vice chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board from 2006 to 2008, has a letter to the editor in today’s Washington Post that begins: The Jan. 19 front-page article “FBI broke law for years in phone record searches” missed a key part of the story. The lack…
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Does asking for a lawyer create reasonable suspicion to search a car?
When police pulled over a young driver for driving without headlights, he immediately asked for a lawyer. Was asking for a lawyer under such circumstances enough to give the police officer reasonable suspicion to search the car? That’s the question making the rounds in the legal blogosphere this week after Crime Scene KC picked up…
Obama continues morphing into Bush
Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers has an article on how Obama’s administration is following in the same secretive and civil liberties-busting footsteps of the Bush administration: Although the FBI has acknowledged it improperly obtained thousands of Americans’ phone records for years, the Obama administration continues to assert that the bureau can obtain them without any…
Microsoft Seeks New Legal Framework For Cloud
J. Nicholas Hoover reports: Microsoft is asking Congress to pass new legislation to regulate cloud computing, Brad Smith, the company’s general counsel, announced Wednesday in an address at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Specifically, Microsoft is proposing what it calls the Cloud Computing Advancement Act, which would make changes to three major areas of…