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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has overturned a previous ruling, concluding geofence warrants are "categorically prohibited by th...
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...
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...