The device is called a StingRay, and it mimics cellphone towers to connect with wireless phones, enabling authorities to track suspects. It is now at the center of a legal…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that police conducted a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when they used a police dog to sniff for drugs on the…
A federal appeals court has ruled that the CIA must give some information about its drone strike records to a federal judge overseeing a case filed by the American Civil…
In one of the largest settlements ever reached over an Internet privacy violation involving unauthorized access into consumer accounts, Google has agreed to pay $7 million to a coalition of…
When worried friends reported an 81-year-old man was missing from his home on Monday, one of the first things police in Salem, Ore., did was contact local hospitals.
In an 8-3 ruling, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has put restrictions on the ability of border agents to search laptop computers.
A federal appeals court has tossed a lawsuit by a Wisconsin woman who claims Google violated state misappropriation laws by linking her name to erectile dysfunction drugs through its Google…
Justice Antonin Scalia appeared unimpressed with the statistics on Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court debated the constitutionality of collecting DNA samples from those arrested for serious crimes.
A group of plaintiffs that includes lawyers and legal organizations has no standing to challenge a foreign surveillance law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a 5-4 opinion.
A Wisconsin law firm has failed to win reinstatement of a lawsuit that claims its right to privacy was violated by a competitor’s purchase of advertising-driven search-engine keywords.