Fourth Amendment articles

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  Federal agents used Stingray phone location tracker without informing judges

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 27, 2013 09:40 pm + 21 comments

  Federal agents regularly used a cellphone location tracking device known as a Stingray without Continue reading…

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  Supreme Court says police need a warrant to use drug-sniffing dogs outside homes

  By Amar Toor on March 26, 2013 12:43 pm + 31 comments

  The Supreme Court today said police officers cannot use drug-sniffing dogs along the perimeter of a Continue reading…

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  US Attorney's Office accused of deliberately withholding evidence in Aaron Swartz trial

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 14, 2013 05:11 am + 12 comments

  Aaron Swartz’s former lawyer in the JSTOR case, Elliot Peters, is accusing federal prosecutor Continue reading…

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  Homeland Security concludes laptop searches at borders don't violate civil rights

  By Adi Robertson on February 8, 2013 04:56 pm + 92 comments

  Years after the Department of Homeland Security said it would consider the civil liberty Continue reading…

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  How we use GPS to track you is none of your business, says Department of Justice

  By Amar Toor on January 17, 2013 06:44 am + 103 comments

  The Department of Justice is refusing to disclose details on the government's use of GPS tracking, Continue reading…

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  Sen. Ron Wyden on FISA surveillance law: 'We are going to win this'

  By Amar Toor on January 9, 2013 03:41 pm + 20 comments

  Civil liberties advocates suffered a major setback in December, when the US Senate voted to extend Continue reading…

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  Judge: Twitter must release arrested Occupy protestor's data

  By Tim Carmody on July 2, 2012 06:12 pm + 17 comments

  A recent criminal court ruling in Manhattan makes it harder for both users and web companies to Continue reading…

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  Twitter fights back against subpoena of Occupy protester's tweets

  By Nilay Patel on May 8, 2012 04:05 pm + 30 comments

  Occupy Wall Street protestor Malcolm Harris may be inciting a very different kind of revolution than Continue reading…

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  US federal court says cops don't need a warrant to search your cellphone for its own number

  By Adi Robertson on March 1, 2012 02:22 pm + 35 comments

  A US federal appeals court has ruled that mobile phones can be searched to obtain their numbers Continue reading…

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  Supreme Court rules that warrants are needed for GPS tracking of criminal suspects

  By Nathan Ingraham on January 23, 2012 12:23 pm + 14 comments

  The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that a warrant is necessary to use GPS when tracking Continue reading…