Privacy isn’t in the Constitution – but it’s everywhere in constitutional law Who’s allowed to watch what you do and say? Shannon Fagan/The Image Bank via Getty Images Scott Skinner-Thompson, University of Colorado Boulder Almost all American adults – including parents, medical patients and people who are sexually active – regularly exercise their right to privacy,…
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How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data
By Bennett Cyphers Over the past few years, data brokers and federal military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies have formed a vast, secretive partnership to surveil the movements of millions of people. Many of the mobile apps on our cell phones track our movements with great precision and frequency. Data brokers harvest our location data…
Westfield council orders IT to remove “spyware” from clerk-treasurer’s computers
Anna Skinner reports: After nearly a year of litigation between Westfield Mayor Andy Cook and Clerk-Treasurer Cindy Gossard, the Westfield City Council asked the city’s Director of Informatics, Chris Larsen, to remove the BeyondTrust software from the clerk-treasurer’s office computers during a June 13 council meeting. The meeting included public discussion between council members, Larsen…
Inevitable discovery?
A case mentioned on FourthAmendment.com caught my eye: Defendant consented to providing his passcode to his cell phone. Even if not, it was admissible because of inevitable discovery. United States v. Morales, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 104053 (E.D.Mo. June 10, 2022).* I wish I could access the opinion because how would it be inevitable discovery…