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• Three UCLA Law Review Articles About Privacy, Civil Liberties

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  The current UCLA Law Review has three articles about privacy and civil liberties. (1) From Privacy To Liberty: The Fourth Amendment After Lawrence by Thomas P. Crocker, (2) Who Can Sue Over Government Surveillance? by Scott Michelman, and (3) The Right to Control One’s Name by Julia Shear Kushner.University of South ...
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• Billings Gazette: Montana lawmakers have twice rejected prescription monitoring

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  The Billings Gazette reports that the Montana legislature has rejected the creation of a prescription monitoring database for the second time in two years by tabling House Bill 267.In 2007, the Montana Board of Crime Control received a $50,000 federal grant to plan a monitoring program. It missed out on another ...
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• Eliot Engel’s Border Search Reform Not Enacted

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 502
  Take your laptop with you on an international business trip, and U.S. border agents can take it from you and search its contents, without ever telling you why theyre doing it. Eliot Engel is trying to change that policy.
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• Tel Aviv University researcher: Kids’ right-to-privacy for their genetic material needs better protection

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  Tel Aviv University announces a researcher’s recent article in Science (Children and Population Biobanks, which is behind a pay wall) concerning the privacy of children’s DNA. (In July, the Washington Post had a story on the privacy of newborn children’s DNA, noting that sometimes the medical data is collected ...
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• The (Dark) Convenience of the Cloud

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 512
  Heres a reminder about the potentially weak legal privacy protections for email and other information sent or stored online in the cloud computing paradigm. I focus on a James Fallows piece, as opposed to one of the legal blog posts on the topic (ht/CA) as of late, because I think his concerns about the ...
  4 days ago

• New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions : Via EFF.org Updates . Advertisement: [ Read more ... ] Bookmark/Search this post with: Twitter Digg StumbleUpon Technorati del.icio.us Facebook Furl &source;=Privacy+Digest" title="Publish this ...
  5 days ago

• New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 146
  Jennifer Granick of the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides some legal analysis of recent court decisions involving stored email communications. Last week, two new district court opinions took opposing views on the question of whether the Fourth Amendment protects stored email. One of the cases easily adopted ...
  5 days ago

• Events of Interest: ACS: Louis Brandeis and the Development of the Right to Privacy (Nov. 10)

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  The American Constitution Society is having an event about Justice Louis Brandeis and the right to privacy. From the Web site:Louis Brandeis and the Development of the Right to PrivacyNearly 120 years ago, modern privacy law took root with the publication of Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s seminal article, The ...
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• Holder’s Invocation of State Secrets Privilege Shields Government From Accountability

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  As Marcy Wheeler and Glenn Greenwald both pointed out over the weekend, Eric Holder on Friday once again declared that a case charging government lawbreaking must be dismissed because to let it continue would reveal important “state secrets.” That’s despite the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder not ...
  5 days ago

• Senators Seek To Continue Government Spying On You Without Justification

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 502
  Those of us who still believe that the promises of the Constitution should be kept cannot win the debate in increments, begging for scraps of portions of our rights. Republican politicians interpret these maneuvers as signs of weakness. S. 1692 is an unsuccessful appeasement that needs to be defeated so that the ...
  6 days ago

• Article: Who Can Sue Over Government Surveillance?

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 146
  Scott Michelman, staff attorney for the ACLU, has an article (pdf) in the current issue of UCLA Law Review. Here’s the abstract: The nature and scope of new government electronic surveillance programs in the aftermath of September 11 have presented acute constitutional questions about executive authority, the ...
  1 week ago

• Article: From Privacy To Liberty: The Fourth Amendment After Lawrence

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 146
  Thomas P. Crocker has an article (pdf) in the current issue of UCLA Law Review.  Here’s the abstract: This Article explores a conflict between the protections afforded interpersonal relations in Lawrence v. Texas and the vulnerability experienced under the Fourth Amendment by individuals who share their lives ...
  1 week ago

• On Gmail and the Constitution

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 146
  Ashby Jones writes: Here’s a question: Is it kosher for a law enforcement agency to, pursuant to a lawfully granted search warrant, search your Gmail account without telling you? According to an opinion handed down earlier this year and currently making the rounds on legal blogs ( here and here ), the answer ...
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• Maine Sen. Collins and California Rep. Harman Call on Obama to Fill Privacy Oversight Board

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  Maine Sen. Susan Collins (Republican) and California Rep. Jane Harman (Democrat) wrote to (pdf) to President Obama this week asking him “about the delayed status of nominations to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.” Harman is Chairwoman of the US House Homeland Security Intelligence Subcommittee and ...
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• Susan Brenner at CYB3RCRIM3: Copying as Search and Seizure

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  Law professor Susan Brenner writes on cyber issues at her blog, CYB3RCRIM3. In a recent post, she discussed whether copying of data violates individual privacy and the Fourth Amendment safeguards on government search or seizure of person or property. In 2008’s U.S. v. Jefferson, 571 F.Supp.2d 696 (in the U.S. ...
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• New York Times: Loosening of F.B.I. Rules Stirs Privacy Concerns

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 523
  The New York Times reports on the Bush Administration’s relaxation of some rules for domestic-intelligence gathering.After a Somali-American teenager from Minneapolis committed a suicide bombing in Africa in October 2008, the Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating whether a Somali Islamist group had ...
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• Do You Have a Privacy Interest In Your Gmail? Nope.

  
  Fastcase - Accelerated Legal Research — Authority: 116
  Loyal readers, we apologize for the paucity of blog posts recently. We promise to return with more juicy posts soon. For now, check out this post from the Wall Street Journal Law Blog describing a scary (but thoughtful) opinion by a federal judge in Oregon that holds that law enforcement authorities can search ...
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• Contest: What Do We Call The FBI Domestic Not-Spying Spying Program?

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 513
  The New York Times reports today that the FBI has instituted a newly expanded program in which their agents spy, often covertly, on American people and groups who are suspected of no crime whatsoever. Rather, people are targeted by the FBI for surveillance on the basis of their political opinions, their religion, ...
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• FBI General Counsel: Constitution and Bill of Rights “Seriously Miss the Mark”

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 513
  Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause , supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly ...
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• House Patriot Act Bill Draws Broad Support On Account of National Security Letter Fix

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 437
  House Patriot Act Bill Draws Broad Support On Account of National Security Letter Fix : Via CDT - PolicyBeta . A coalition of 20 civil liberties organizations, including the Center for Democracy & Technology, released a letter today endorsing H.R. 3845, the USA Patriot Amendments Act. The bill was introduced ...
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