A sweeping National Security Agency program that collects and stores so-called metadata for nearly all United States phone calls in a searchable database is not authorized by the Patriot Act,…
A court order authorizing disclosure of cellphone business records showing a suspect was in the vicinity of six armed robberies didn’t violate his Fourth Amendment rights, though they were obtained…
Lawmakers in France’s lower house of Parliament have approved an anti-terrorism bill that would expand government surveillance powers, including the ability to mine Internet data.
The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing use of stingray devices by federal agencies and will reveal more information about why the devices are used, according to a published report.
A California appeals court last week turned down an open records request for invoices documenting legal fees paid to law firms defending Los Angeles County in inmate lawsuits.
Evidence from a stingray surveillance device that traced a homicide victim’s stolen phone to the home of a suspect can be used in the suspect’s murder trial, a Baltimore judge…
Police who use drug-sniffing dogs in conjunction with traffic stops can’t keep the motorist waiting after the ticket is written when they have no reasonable suspicion justifying the extra time,…
An eighth grader in Holiday, Florida, is facing a felony charge after accessing the school’s computer network and changing the background image on his teacher’s computer screen.
A family photographed in their glass-walled apartment by an artist in a neighboring building can’t recover for privacy invasion under New York law, a state appeals court has ruled.
Telecommunications giant AT&T has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a FCC probe over privacy breaches at call centers in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.