Michelle Maltais reports: California is one step closer to banning law enforcement from tapping the data from the tracking device in your palm, pocket or purse without a warrant. The state Senate passed a bill Wednesday that requires a warrant to seek access from wireless carriers to the near-constant data stream coming from our cellphones….
Month: May 2012
No Constitutional Issue in Shared Autopsy Photos
Tim Hull reports: Despite a clear constitutional right to control death images of relatives, a district attorney is not liable for sending an autopsy photograph to the press, the 9th Circuit ruled Tuesday. In the first decision of its kind, the federal appeals court in San Francisco found that “the common law right to non-interference…
EU to sue Netherlands, Portugal, 3 others on telecom rules
Foo Yun Chee reports: EU telecoms regulators will take five member states to court – including the Netherlands and Portugal – for not implementing new telecoms rules aimed at protecting users’ privacy online, a European Commission official said on Tuesday. The other countries are Belgium, Poland and Slovenia, the official said, declining to be identified…
Move to Declassify FISA Court Rulings Yields No Results
Steven Aftergood writes: An initiative that was started two years ago to declassify significant rulings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court regarding domestic intelligence surveillance has produced no declassified records, a Justice Department official confirmed last week. Read more on FAS.