Tag: Fourth Amendment

4th Circuit Court of Appeals sends case challenging a government online surveillance program back to the lower court. (Wikipedia Commons)

Appeals court rules Wikimedia can challenge NSA surveillance program

Ryan Lovelace · May 23, 2017 6:08 pm

For years, tech giants such as Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon, along with privacy advocates, have pressured Congress to bring the ECPA into the modern era. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson)

Senate takes another crack at bringing email protections into 21st century

Daniel Chaitin · February 21, 2017 5:01 am

We need a new legal test for privacy, balancing the immense advantage technology gives government to snoop. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Beltway Confidential

CBS show ‘Hunted’ spotlights our surveillance nation

Steven Titch · February 14, 2017 4:34 pm

Trump's proposals would violate the First, Fourth, Fifth and Eighth Amendments, the American Civil Liberties Union says. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

ACLU to Trump: We’ll see you in court

Kelly Cohen · November 9, 2016 6:37 pm

This certainly doesn't set the Fourth Amendment aflame as some have suggested. (Hilary Scheinuk/The Advocate via AP)

Utah v. Strieff doesn’t give cops license to kill the Fourth

Greg Glod · July 22, 2016 4:02 am

The proposal, HB527, would grant implied consent to police officers to seize "portable electronic devices" from drivers they pull over for various reasons. (AP Photo)

Vermont considering warrantless cellphone seizure

Rudy Takala · January 18, 2016 11:01 pm

In the name of "security," the government has claimed vast authority to monitor everyone. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Hands off our data!

Eric Peters · October 21, 2015 4:01 am

A Drug Enforcement Administration officer walks into a medical clinic in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, May 20, 2015.Â The DEAÂ is involved in a lawsuit for targeting medical records using judge-less warrants called "administrative subpoenas."Â (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Administrative subpoenas: Relics of the Star Chamber

Mark Fitzgibbons · October 3, 2015 4:01 am

Current law allows the government to gain warrantless access to your emails that have been stored more than 180 days.Â (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

False advertising for email privacy legislation

Mark Fitzgibbons · July 13, 2015 4:01 am

Meeting for the first time since their nominations, President Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, Vice Presidential candidate, plan their campaigns as they lunch beneath a magnolia tree on the White House lawn August 18, 1944. (AP Photo/stf)

The progressive roots of NSA’s privacy violations

Mark Fitzgibbons · June 22, 2015 9:00 am

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks via videoconference at the 'Virtual Conversation With Edward Snowden' during the 2014 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at the Austin Convention Center on March 10, 2014 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for SXSW)

National Security

NSA and how the Fourth Amendment stops government abuses

Ken Cuccinelli, Mark Fitzgibbons · June 1, 2015 9:00 pm

In the 9-2 decision, the 11th Circuit decided that authorities properly got 67 days' worth of records from MetroPCS for Miami suspect Quartavious Davis by using a court order with a lower burden of proof. (AP Photo)Â

Florida court: No search warrant needed for cell phone location records

Kelly Cohen · May 5, 2015 5:29 pm