The Supreme Court ruled today that the government cannot use warrantless GPS tracking devices because doing so violates a suspect's Fourth Amendment rights against unwarranted search and seizure. Writing for the Court, Justice Scalia held: that the Government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use…
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A Freedom of Information Act ('FOIA') lawsuit (below) by the Electronic Privacy Information Center ('EPIC') reveals that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security paid contractors to monitor Facebook, Twitter other social networks, blogs, and comments on news media websites. The documents (below) disclose that the federal government paid at least…
Facebook is hacking Congress. But don't be alarmed. It's all legal. Really. Democratic and Republican lawmakers and their staffs are making nice on Capitol Hill this afternoon in a hackathon with Facebook engineers and software developers. Mark Zucerkberg's team is helping Senators, Representatives, and congressional staffers brush up on their…
Would televising U.S. Supreme Court proceedings promote transparency in the country's highest legal institution and help generate public confidence in the judiciary, or would putting the court's oral arguments on TV or the Internet demean the institution? These and other questions were raised in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this…