Michael Geist writes: Every 27 seconds. Minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month. Canadian telecommunications providers, who collect massive amounts of data about their subscribers, are asked to disclose basic subscriber information to Canadian law enforcement agencies every 27 seconds. In 2011, that added up to 1,193,630…
Month: April 2014
Google Stops Scanning Student E-Mail Messages for Advertising
Brian Womack reports: Google Inc. (GOOG:US) is taking additional steps to avoid marketing to kids, this time by removing advertisements from e-mails in its education suite. The company said today in a blog post that it has stopped scanning Gmail messages within the Apps for Education software package, and can’t collect or use the student data for…
The role of warrants in the cell phone search cases
Orin Kerr writes: One of the recurring issues raised in the Supreme Court’s cell phone search arguments today asked the following question: What’s the practical difference a warrant requirement would make? If the government often will have probable cause to search the phone for evidence, and a warrant search can be quite invasive, how much privacy does…
Argument Recap: Justices Look to Limit Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
Alan Butler of EPIC writes: Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie, two cases involving the warrantless search of an individual’s cell phone incident to arrest. These cases present an important and fundamental Fourth Amendment question: whether the police can search the entire contents of an individual’s cell phone incident…