Reporter David Savage updates us all on an important case that the U.S. Supreme Court has now agreed to hear: The Supreme Court said today it would rule for the first time on whether employees have a right to privacy when they send text messages on electronic devices supplied by their employers. The justices agreed…
Germans to get controversial new ID cards in 2010
Kristin Allen reports: The German Interior Ministry confirmed on Monday that new identification cards containing radio-frequency (RFID) chips will be introduced starting November 1, 2010 – but some data protection experts are critical of the decision. “It’s smaller than the old one, but can do a lot more,” Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said in…
Hackers declare war on international forensics tool
Dan Goodin reports: Hackers have released software they say sabotages a suite of forensics utilities Microsoft provides for free to hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the globe. Decaf is a light-weight application that monitors Windows systems for the presence of COFEE, a bundle of some 150 point-and-click tools used by police to collect digital…
Where does GPS tracking go from here?
Orin Kerr’s commentary on GPS surveillance and the Fourth Amendment has seemingly inspired John Wesley Hall, Jr. of FourthAmendment.com to offer his own commentary: My personal view is not far off, but with a caveat: United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983), and United States v. Karo, 468 U.S. 705 (1984), two beeper tracking…