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• EFF Obtains Records From Behind-The-Scenes Negotiations on TelecomImmunity

  
  Constitutionalert — Authority: 120
  November 12th, 2009 EFF Obtains Records from Behind-the-Scenes Negotiations on Telecom Immunity Partial Document Release from Government Posted on EFF’s Website San Francisco, CA – Today the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) posted thousands of pages of records detailing behind-the-scenes negotiations between ...
  18 hours ago

• Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned : Via Threat Level . The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the ...
  2 days ago

• Tiburon: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But It’s a Crime To Leave

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 515
  It must be a crime to leave Tiburon. That’s the only thing that would explain how the town in California can manage to get away with photographing every license plate that enters and leaves the town . Why would you spy on people without probable cause to believe a crime has been committed? Why would you treat ...
  4 days ago

• Op-ed at New York Times: GPS and Privacy Rights

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 478
  The New York Times has an editorial concerning GPS (a location-tracking technology) and how it affects individual privacy rights.The Supreme Court has not considered the question of whether the police need a court order to install a GPS device. The government has tried to draw an analogy to a 1983 case in which the ...
  4 days ago

• Security Theater – Entr’acte

  
  Flight Wisdom — Authority: 119
  Image by Getty Images via DaylifeHoliday seasons are usually times when many of us take to the air to see relatives and enjoy a little time away. It is also a time when thoughts turn to security. The government is always warning us to be vigilant, especially during the holiday season. But why?Bruce Schneier has [...]
  5 days ago

• Airport Rules Changed After Ron Paul’s Aide Is Detained

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 131
  An angry aide to Rep. Ron Paul, an iPhone and $4,700 in cash have forced the Transportation Security Administration to quietly issue two new rules telling its airport screeners they can only conduct searches related to airplane safety. In response, the American Civil Liberties Union is dropping its lawsuit on behalf ...
  1 week ago

• Freedom of assembly? Pshaw! That’s so 1787!

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 437
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit effectively overturns the assembly clause of the First Amendment as well as the Fourth Amendment freedom from arrest without probable cause. It would be nice to think the Supremes will overrule, but I suspect Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia will vote to uphold. I ...
  1 week ago

• GovInfoSecurity: Einstein 3 Privacy Concerns Voiced

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 478
  GovInfoSecurity reports on a U.S. Senate hearing about Einstein 3. It is a Bush-era pilot program, continued under Obama, that seeks to have private telecommunications companies route the Internet traffic of civilian government agencies through hardware and software that would search for and block malicious computer ...
  1 week ago

• Copying as Search and Seizure

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Copying as Search and Seizure : Via CYB3RCRIM3 blog. In other posts, I’ve argued that copying data is a “seizure” under the 4th Amendment. As I explained in those posts, if copying is a 4th Amendment seizure, law enforcement officers must either get a warrant authorizing the seizure or be able to use one of ...
  1 week ago

• Family DNA Matching Risks Police Abuses

  
  FreeColorado.com — Authority: 417
  Earlier this year, I criticized a new law that allows police to take DNA samples from people they arrest for a felony, absent any criminal conviction. As the Denver Post summarized, "The bill was amended to allow police to take DNA tests upon arrest but for the sample not to be processed unless a person is ...
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• ACLU Report: Building American Institutions to Protect Privacy in the Face of New Technology and Government Powers

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 478
  The ACLU has released a new report, “Enforcing Privacy: Building American Institutions to Protect Privacy in the Face of New Technology and Government Powers,” written by Jay Stanley (a friend and colleague). He notes that nearly every other advanced-industrial nation, has an independent data protection official ...
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• D.C. Circuit Examines Warrantless GPS Surveillance

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Mike Scarcella writes: When federal authorities got a warrant to install an electronic tracking device to track a drug suspect, agents acted in an “abundance of caution,” a federal prosecutor said today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where the government is defending its ability to secretly ...
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• The Exclusionary Rule

  
  WesternFront America — Authority: 139
  There have been arguments that this rule is un-necessary. The Republican majority in 1995 attempted to negate this ruling, fortunately for the average citizen this attempt was overturned. Again, in the recent years there have been further attempts by both sides to adjust or take away this Rule. One such attempt was ...
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• On the Road: A Constitutional Case in a Box of Cash

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A traveler used his iPhone to help his case against what he considered overzealous airport screeners.
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• Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 505
  Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act : Via Threat Level . Confused by all the proposed changes to the Patriot Act ricocheting through the Capitol? The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) has put together a handy chart comparing the current law with the various amendments in the House and ...
  1 week ago

• Washington Times: Airport rules changed after Ron Paul aide detained

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 478
  The Washington Times reports on new rules at the Transportation Security Administration concerning airport searches.An angry aide to Rep. Ron Paul, an iPhone and $4,700 in cash have forced the Transportation Security Administration to quietly issue two new rules telling its airport screeners they can only conduct ...
  1 week ago

• Case o The Week: Raising a Ruckes Over Car Searches: Ruckes and "Inevitable Discovery" Post-Gant

  
  Ninth Circuit Blog — Authority: 459
  The Supreme Courts decision in Gant squelched the much-abused Belton rule, which gave the police carte blanche to search a car when a suspect within was arrested -- even if the suspect posed no danger, and was actually far away from the vehicle, in cuffs and safe in the back of a patrol car. ( Gant ...
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• The “techie” side of “Getting It Right”

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Jim Burrows writes: The following posting is intended as part of the background information for a forthcoming Get FISA Right chat on the technological issues in “getting FISA right” or more generally balancing needed foreign intelligence gathering with the rights reserved and protected in the Constitution. We ...
  2 weeks ago

• TSA faces new limits on screening “unrelated to transportation security”

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 144
  TSA was forced to change their procedures for handling non-terrorist and non-airplane safety issues at their checkpoints. Last March, Steve Bierfeldt, a fundraiser for Rep. Ron Paul, was stopped while carrying $4,500 through airport security in a lock box. He refused to tell TSA why he had the money and where he got ...
  2 weeks ago

• In the News: Groups Urge White House to Fill Privacy Oversight Board

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 478
  Privacy Lives joins 28 groups (including the Center for Democracy & Technology, Center for National Security Studies, and Special Libraries Association) in sending a letter (pdf) to the White House urging that the administration make the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board selection process “a priority ...
  2 weeks ago

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