Often-split SCOTUS Agrees Privacy Matters

Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in a ruling that police must get a judge’s approval before searching the cellphones of people they’ve arrested.

Associated Press
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SUPREME COURT CASES

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in a ruling that police must get a judge's approval before searching the cellphones of people they've arrested. The term that just ended also had its share of 5-4 decisions with the familiar conservative-liberal

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Justices Limit Cellphone Searches After Arrests

The court chose not to extend earlier rulings that allow police to empty a suspect’s pockets and examine whatever they find to ensure officers’ safety and prevent the destruction of evidence.

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Supreme Court Cellphone Searches

WASHINGTON — In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants. Cellphones are powerful devices unlike anything else police may find on someone they arrest, Chief Justice John Roberts said for the

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Advances In Computer Science May Simplify Question Of Unwarranted Public Surveillance

“It’s essential that the legal and computer science communities work together,” one researcher says of stopping technology from encroaching on civil liberties.

Frederick Reese
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police

Over the last few years, the debate over whether a person is entitled to his or her privacy while in public has taken a fervent -- and at times, disjointed -- path. Since March, Minnesota, Missouri, Illinois, New Hampshire, Tennessee and South Carolina have moved forward with legislation banning warrantless cellphone tracking. These states joined

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Just Shoot: Turning Search Warrants Into Death Warrants, And SWAT Teams Into Death Squads

If ever there were a time to de-militarize and de-weaponize police forces, it’s now, starting at the local level, with local governments and citizens reining in local police.

John Whitehead
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“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.” —  John Salter How many children, old people, and law-abiding citizens have to be injured, terrorized or killed before we call a halt to the

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Fate Of Anti-NSA Law In Hands Of Calif. Senate

“This act yanks away the welcome mat and tells the NSA, ‘We don’t want you in California unless you follow the Constitution,’” one supporter says.

Katie Rucke
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NSA

The California State Legislature has revisited a bill introduced earlier this year that would make it nearly impossible for the National Security Agency to conduct its Big Brother-esque surveillance operations in the state, since the federal government has failed to offer Americans such protection. SB-828 -- also known as the Fourth Amendment

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Feds’ Searches Of Private Planes Don’t Fly With Pilots, Lawmakers

Amid an uptick in searches of private aircraft, lawmakers and an association of aircraft owners and pilots see an overreach on the part of Customs and Border Protection.

Matthew Heller
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Jim Dees

LOS ANGELES --- When real estate investment banker Gabriel Silverstein landed his Cirrus SR22 single-engine general aviation aircraft for a fuel stop at the Iowa City Municipal Airport last May, he was greeted with a scene like something out of “Miami Vice.” More than half a dozen local law enforcement officers and federal agents in tan

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