Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie, two cases involving the warrantless search of an individual’s cell phone incident to…
Month: April 2014
White Hat, Black Hat, Bleeding Heart
Let’s start with the Heartbleed bug. Since the announcement of Heartbleed last week, everyone has been paying attention to security vulnerabilities – a typically niche technical…
There Are No OLC Opinions About PRISM or 215, So Who Decided It Was Legal?
In light of the President’s recent announcement that the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone metadata will end, there is a renewed interest in Congress to revise U.S. surveillance…
The FBI is “Working” on an Updated Privacy Statement for Facial Recognition
Facial recognition technology presents a serious risk to privacy and civil liberties because it can so easily be deployed covertly, from a distance, and on…