fourth amendment
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U.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Used to Investigate Terrorists
In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to recover deleted messages from the phone.…
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Police Are Using Google’s Location History Feature To Track Down Suspects
Law enforcement queries of Google’s massive mobile device location tracking database, which employees call Sensorvault, has “risen sharply in the past six months,” the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing sources at the company.
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Microsoft Is Winning A Battle Against Government Surveillance
Microsoft just scored a point for its customers’ privacy. Today, a US District Judge ruled that the government can’t avoid a lawsuit alleging that its surveillance operations violate citizens’ constitutional rights. The judge in question is the same one that Donald Trump recently referred to as a “so-called judge”.
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New Policy Will Grant FBI Power To Install Tracking Malware On Computers Worldwide
The rules for how the US Department of Justice tracks down criminals in the digital age are woefully arcane. However, the DoJ’s recent proposed changes to update those rules go way too far, using vague terms to grant FBI agents the power to install tracking malware on computers all over the world, without telling people…