Tag: Fourth Amendment

Senator Wyden’s Alarm Bell on NSA Surveillance Is Ringing Again — And Congress May Not Be Listening
When Senator Ron Wyden issues a cryptic warning about government surveillance, history suggests you should pay attention. The Oregon Democrat has spent more than a decade as...
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The FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Powers Face Their Most Serious Congressional Threat in Years
For nearly two decades, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has given U.S. intelligence agencies sweeping authority to vacuum up the electronic communica...
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When the Government Controls AI: The Constitutional Crisis Nobody in Washington Wants to Debate
The U.S. government isn't just buying AI tools. It's building the infrastructure for a surveillance apparatus that would make the authors of the Fourth Amendment reach for th...
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The Crowdsourced Resistance: Mapping the Invisible Grid of License Plate Readers
Open the map hosted at DeFlock.org, and the United States appears to be suffering from a severe case of digital measles. Thousands of ma...
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The Digital Panopticon: How U.S. Government Surveillance Infrastructure Has Quietly Expanded Beyond Constitutional Boundaries
The concept of the panopticon—a prison designed so that inmates could be watched at all times without knowing when they were being observed—was first proposed by philosopher...
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The Tenth Circuit Just Drew a Line in the Sand on Digital Privacy — And It Could Reshape How Police Search Your Phone
A federal appeals court has delivered what digital rights advocates are calling one of the most significant Fourth Amendment rulings in years, holding that law enforcement ca...
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Vigilante Justice or Civil Disobedience? Americans Are Taking Sledgehammers to Flock Safety Surveillance Cameras
Across the United States, a quiet but intensifying conflict is unfolding on suburban streets and rural highways. Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based company that has installed te...
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Behind Closed Doors: A Senator’s Relentless Crusade to Expose the CIA’s Secret Surveillance of Americans
For more than a decade, Senator Ron Wyden has positioned himself as Congress's most persistent watchdog over the intelligence community's clandestine data collection practice...
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Federal Court Rules Fourth Amendment Prohibits Lengthy Police Seizure
A federal court has ruled that the Fourth Amendment protects individuals from having their seized property held indefinitely following an arrest....
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Federal Appeals Court: Fourth Amendment ‘Categorically’ Prohibits Geofence Warrants
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has overturned a previous ruling, concluding geofence warrants are "categorically prohibited by th...
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Federal Judge Rules Fourth Amendment Applies At The Border
Federal Judge Nina Morrison, of the Eastern District of New York, has ruled the Fourth Amendment applies at the border, ending warrantless searches of phon...
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Judges Rules Blanket Cellphone Location Tracking Is Unconstitutional
A federal judge has shot down a widely used police tactic, ruling the blanket collection of cellphone location data is unconstitutional....
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Border Agents Need Reasonable Suspicion To Search Phones and Computers At The Border
For years, Unites States borders have been a legal no-man’s-land where laws and rights citizens take for granted don’t always apply. Case in point is the search and seizure of elec...
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City, Mayor Sued Over Arrest of Parody Tweeter
The ACLU has taken up the case of a Peoria, Illinois ma...
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School Will Pay for Violating Teen’s Rights over Facebook Posts
The ACLU is declaring victory in a lawsuit against the Minnewaska,...
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