Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling Bolstering Gadget Privacy at U.S. Border
A convicted sex offender's loss at the Supreme Court today was indirectly a boost to the privacy rights of travelers crossing the border into the United States. The post Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling...
View ArticleFederal Court Guts Net Neutrality Rules
A federal appeals court nullified key provisions of the FCC's net neutrality rules, opening the door today to a Wild West-style of internet delivery and allowing online-access providers to block...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Decide if Cops Need a Warrant to Search Your Phone
The Supreme Court today agreed to decide the unsolved constitutional question of whether police may search, without warrants, the mobile phones of suspects they arrest. The post Supreme Court to Decide...
View ArticleJudge Enforces Spy Orders Despite Ruling Them Unconstitutional
A federal judge in California who ruled last year that the government's use of National Security Letters is unconstitutional has defied her own ruling by enforcing three NSLs in the wake of that...
View ArticleTerror Defendant Challenges Evidence Gathered by NSA Spying
A U.S. terrorism defendant who was formally notified that he was spied on by the NSA filed a challenge to the constitutionality of the surveillance today, in a case likely to be litigated all the way...
View ArticleWhy a Railroad Merger May Get the Supreme Court to Rule on NSA Spying
In legal circles, the biggest "off the board" bet going is whether the Supreme Court this term will decide the constitutionality of the NSA’s bulk telephone metadata program, and resolve the issue once...
View ArticleHow Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error
After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was...
View ArticleGoogle Fights to Restore Anti-Muslim YouTube Video
Google-owned YouTube is urging a federal appeals court to allow it to re-post an inflammatory trailer from its popular video-sharing site, arguing that the media giant and the public “will suffer...
View ArticleSprint Accused of Overcharging Feds Millions for Wiretapping
The President Barack Obama administration accused Sprint today of overcharging the government more than $21 million in wiretapping expenses. The post Sprint Accused of Overcharging Feds Millions for...
View ArticleAfter Recent Ruling, America’s Commercial Drone Pilots Come Out of the Shadows
Matt Gunn, an independent model aircraft or drone operator in Cleveland, says the recent court ruling barring the Federal Aviation Administration from enforcing rules prohibiting the commercial use of...
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