The government is out of control. Maybe employees of ICE should be sentenced to double the time in jail that innocent people have spent. Jessica Schulberg reports: A U.S.-born citizen was arrested in Florida on Wednesday and charged with illegally entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” Twenty-year-old Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was detained for a…
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
Matthew Gault reports: This article was produced in collaboration with 404 Media, a new independent technology investigations site. A judge in Nevada has ruled that “tower dumps”—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still use the…
Another California Court Rejects Privacy Claims Targeting Online Chat Feature
Erin Moore and Matthew Verdin of Covington and Burling write: Plaintiffs’ lawyers have continued to bring privacy claims targeting businesses that use vendors to help provide beneficial chat features on their website, as we last reported here. Late last year, a Southern District of California judge dismissed another set of privacy claims challenging the routine use…
DOJ Announces 90-Day Grace Period for Companies to Comply with New Data Security Rules on Foreign Adversary Access to U.S. Sensitive Data
Townsend L. Bourne of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP writes: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s new data security rule went into effect April 8, 2025. The rule creates what are effectively export controls and requires companies to take measures to prevent U.S. sensitive personal and government-related data from falling into the hands of…