The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-3 that there is no need to toss evidence recovered after a police officer makes an unconstitutional investigatory stop and discovers the subject is…
A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the city of Seattle from disclosing the location of hidden FBI surveillance cameras placed on city utility poles.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling for an end to government research that could be used to map connections or make inferences about people based on their tattoos.
As the U.S. Supreme Court enters the last month of its term, the impact of having only eight justices already is clear. Some of the most high-profile cases of the…
A former lawyer who became a Silicon Valley entrepreneur acknowledges he paid roughly $10 million to finance Hulk Hogan’s winning lawsuit against Gawker and says it’s not the only case…
A federal judge in Tacoma, Washington, has blocked Mozilla’s attempt to learn whether a security vulnerability in its Firefox browser helped a government investigation of child pornography.
A name partner at California law firm Layfield & Barrett isn’t putting up with negative reviews of the firm posted by authors claiming to be current and former employees.
A service that mined tweets to quickly alert U.S. intelligence agencies about the terrorist attacks in Brussels and Paris won’t be providing that kind of information in the future.
A federal judge has given a green light to a class action lawsuit contending that deployment of a Facebook feature using facial-recognition technology to tag photographs violates an Illinois privacy…
A settlement by a suburban Chicago school district of a transgender high school student’s federal civil rights complaint over locker room access has now sparked new litigation.
The police department in Dallas, where a crime data initiative was recently launched, accidentally published the names, ages and home addresses of six alleged sexual assault victims, the Washington…
Electronic Frontier Foundation Executive Director Cindy Cohn encouraged attendees to stay vigilant about government surveillance. Photograph by Wayne Slezak.
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A former Philadelphia police officer is arguing a federal magistrate had no authority to send him to prison for refusing to reveal passwords to two encrypted computer hard drives.