Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
April 14th, 2016 Cell Site Location Information and United States v. Jones By: William Simoneaux This post by the Electronic Frontier Foundation discusses a recent decision upholding the lawfulness of…
Two Consequences of a New Encryption Bill By: Sawyer Williams April 14th, 2016 The Senate Intelligence Committee released a draft of its hotly anticipated encryption bill on Wednesday. The legislation,…
Topic: Privacy, Public Safety, and the Fourth Amendment By: Andrew Tepper April 14th, 2016 Source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/first-came-the-breathalyzer-now-meet-the-roadside-police-textalyzer/ Texting while driving is a public safety concern and many states have imposed laws…
Cell Phone Anti-Encryption Measures: the Key, But to What? By: Jackson Yates April 14th, 2016 Earlier this year, California Democratic state legislator Jim Cooper introduced Assembly Bill 1681, which would…
April 14th, 2016 By: Shangjun Tang Network Neutrality (or Net Neutrality) is the principle that all network traffic should be treated equally, without discrimination based on the content of the…
Privacy Blog: Emails Closer to Warrant Protection as Enormously Popular Bill Advances By: Inhwan Lee (Panel 2) April 14th, 2016 Article: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-13/emails-closer-to-warrant-protection-as-enormously-popular-bill-advances A legislation to amend the Stored Communications Act…
Topic: Surveillance and the First Amendment By: Adelaide Dunn, Panel 2 Post: Ryan Calo, “Tech companies may be our best hope for resisting government surveillance” Fusion.net (September 7, 2015) http://fusion.net/story/193583/tech-companies-may-be-our-best-hope-for-resisting-government-surveillance/…
Parental Eavesdropping: An Exception for “Best Interests” Information Privacy Blog Post By: Viviana Puchi http://bigstory.ap.org/article/0ad56b89ebee4903a4bc53adb3bf7012/new-yorks-top-court-parents-can-legally-eavesdrop-kids On April 5, 2016, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that parents can legally…
By: Samuel J. Beckerman https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/29/warrant-to-search-phone-did-not-allow-opening-folder-unlikely-to-contain-evidence-sought-court-rules/ The United States Supreme Court decided in the case of Riley v. California, that the warrantless search of the digital contents of a cellphone violates…
By: Jeff Mudd Article: http://blog.norml.org/2016/02/12/legalizing-marijuana-and-your-4th-amendment-protections/ The Fourth Amendment provides protections against unreasonable searches by law enforcement, but in many states where marijuana remains illegal, courts have consistently held that the smell…