Patrick McGreevy reports the news-I-expected-but-hoped-I-was-wrong: Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday vetoed a bill that would have required law enforcement officers to get a search warrant in order to obtain location information generated by a cellphone, tablet computer or automobile navigation system. Read more on The Los Angeles Times. And if the Governor doesn’t think this bill…
Article: The Curious History of Fourth Amendment Searches – Orin Kerr
More food for thought from Orin Kerr. Here’s the abstract of his new paper, The Curious History of Fourth Amendment Searches: In United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012), the Supreme Court restored the trespass test of Fourth Amendment law: Any government conduct that is a trespass onto persons, houses, papers, or effects is a…
Private messages on Facebook? Jack Yan asks Privacy Commissioner to investigate
At least a few people are not buying Facebook’s denial of a recent report that private messages were exposed in Timeline. The Wellington Scoop in New Zealand reports: Facebook’s claims that it is impossible for private messages to appear on public Timelines are untrue, says Jack Yan, CEO of the Wellington-based Jack Yan & Associates,…
Phone location data privacy issue hits federal court Tuesday
John P. Mello Jr. writes: The U.S. government will be taking a second crack Tuesday at overturning a lower court ruling that’s preventing police from obtaining cell phone location records from two wireless carriers without a search warrant. Now before the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the government’s attempt to obtain 60 days of records…