Sam Knight writes: Congress is backing off from a push to grant the Federal Bureau of Investigations more warrantless surveillance powers. Lawmakers had been attempting to use the annual intelligence policy bill to allow the FBI to obtain more sensitive digital information from Americans, using only a subpoena. That effort, however, has been abandoned, this year,…
Month: January 2017
European Commission Dismisses Privacy Shield Concerns Over Trump Executive Order
(Now if they could just dismiss Trump, himself)… Phil Bradley-Schmieg and David Bender write: On January 25, 2017, President Trump signed a new Executive Order on Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the U.S. Among other elements, the Executive Order directs U.S. government agencies to “ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States…
Could a new presidential order impact US-EU Privacy Shield?
Matt Burgess reports: A new executive order issued by president Donald Trump could have significant implications for the data sharing agreement between the European Union and the United States. At present, the EU-US Privacy Shield sets out what data can be shared between businesses on both sides of the Atlantic ocean and how that data can be…
S.D.W.Va.: Pen register information collected beyond time limit of register not suppressed under 4A because it’s not a search
I think I’m going to need some help with this one, too. John Wesley Hall Jr. writes: Pen register information collected outside the time period of the pen register order would not be suppressed under the Fourth Amendment because it’s collection is not even a “search.” Defendant has no standing in search warrants issued for…