BOSTON—In a major victory for privacy rights at the border, a federal court in Boston ruled today that suspicionless searches of travelers’ electronic devices by federal agents at airports and other U.S. ports of entry are unconstitutional. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Alasaad v. McAleenan, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic sends along this news story from Fox31: The city of Denver will pay a United Airlines pilot $300,000 to settle a wrongful arrest lawsuit that stemmed from an incident at the Westin at Denver International Airport in September 2018. Andrew Collins was arrested for standing naked in front [Read More…]
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today to obtain information that will shine a light on the agency’s use of Rapid DNA technology on migrant families at the border to verify biological parent-child relationships. In a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) complaint filed today in [Read More…]
This opinion was issued earlier this month. Alaina Lancaster reported: A federal appellate court further ironed out the reach of the Fourth Amendment in today’s digital age, ruling the protection from unreasonable search and seizures does not apply to law enforcement’s use of wireless-tracking software through a third-party internet router. A [Read More…]