Posted by Julian Sanchez on August 11, 2010
By Julian Sanchez
The Electronic Frontier Foundation trumpets a surprising privacy win last week in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In U.S. v. Maynard (PDF), the court held that the use of a GPS tracking device to monitor the public movements of a vehicle—something the Supreme Court had held not to constitute a Fourth [...]
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Tags: DC District Court, dragnet, Fourth Amendment, fourth amendment rights, justice antonin scalia, Law and Civil Liberties, privacy, rational basis, reasonable expectation of privacy, strict scrutiny, Supreme Court, technology, Telecom, Internet & Information Policy, thermal imaging |
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Posted by David Rittgers on May 20, 2010
By David Rittgers
First, they came for the sex offenders. I am not a sex offender, but I opposed the civil commitment of sex offenders by the federal government because it is not an activity within the enumerated powers of Congress. The Supreme Court decided otherwise in Comstock, with the exception of Justices Thomas and Scalia.
Next, they will [...]
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Tags: civil liberties, Comstock, Counterterrorism, Foreign Policy and National Security, habeas corpus petitions, jack goldsmith, joseph lieberman, justice antonin scalia, justice clarence thomas, Law and Civil Liberties, Lindsey Graham, national security court, neal katyal, preventive detention, Scott Brown, Senator John McCain, terrorism |
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