April 14, 2023 | By: Mike Maharrey | Tenth Amendment Center | SACRAMENTO, Calif. (April 14, 2023) – On Wednesday, a California Assembly Committee passed a bill that would ban geofence location tracking. Passage of the legislation would not only protect privacy in California; it would also hinder the growth of the federal surveillance state. […]
March 10, 2023 | By Saraphin Dhanani | Lawfare | On Jan. 25, Judge Rudolph Contreras of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia handed down an opinion in the case of United States v. Rhine denying Jan. 6 rioter David Harles Rhine’s motion to suppress evidence obtained from a geofence warrant. Searches […]
February 7, 2023 | By Khaleda Rahman |Newsweek| It will be months before prosecutors try to show a judge that they have enough evidence to justify the charges against Bryan Kohberger, and experts have told Newsweek that the cellphone data could be instrumental in providing that evidence. Kohberger, 28, is accused of breaking into a rental […]
March 13, 2023 | By Tim Cushing | TechDirt | In 2015, the Supreme Court finally addressed reality: people were carrying around computers in their pockets capable of accessing, storing, and maintaining far more information than could be expected to be found in their physical houses. The government sought to compare cell phones to pocket […]
February 15, 2023 | By Daniel Kahn Gillmor & Jay Stanley | ACLU.org | Despite the desires of companies to monetize our data, we must insist that privacy be built into the technologies we depend on. The recent launch of a new mobile phone service introduced significant new privacy protections into the mobile phone system. […]
