""Some members of the court will certainly try to consider the place mobile devices play in modern life," said Jennifer Granick, director of civi…
""It's awesome," Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School, told Ars. "On whether the Fourth Amendment ap…
"There are very sophisticated chemical sensors or other sorts of sensor technology that permit you to do what the dog-sniffing cases pretty much allow, whi…
"Law enforcement and civil parties could also get a public email provider to turn over messages with less than a warrant if the email isn't considered…
On October 28, the Department of Justice will argue to a District Court Judge in Arizona that neither the public nor criminal defendants should learn about a sp…
Isn’t it great that when your car, or phone, or laptop gets lost or stolen, you can use modern technology to find your stuff and get it back? One might think on…
This week, Eastern District of New York Judge Nicholas Garaufis rejected an FBI effort to use an individual’s cell phone tower records to track his movements ov…
On April 21st, the Ninth Circuit held in United States v. Arnold (pdf) that the Fourth Amendment does not require government agents to have reasonable suspicion…
Earlier this week, Chief Justice John Roberts, addressed students at the Brigham Young University. According to a press account of the event: Emerging technolo…
Author: Scott M. Noveck I. The 2001 FISA Amendments For purposes of criminal surveillance, the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and sei…
Paul Ohm and I wrote an amicus brief in the 10th Circuit case of US v. Andrus, the opinion I wrote about in last week's Wired News column. In the case, the…
My Wired News column today is Hack My Son's Computer, Please, a discussion of the Fourth Amendment opinion in U.S. v. Andrus (pdf), issued in April by the T…