by Paul Detrick. Cops go free after beating an innocent man to death. On January 14, 2014, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, two former police officers in Fullerton, California, were acquitted of manslaughter and second-degree murder charges in the death of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old schizophrenic drifter. The two cops brutally beat ... MORE
Showing posts with label cell phones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cell phones. Show all posts
Verizon Reveals More About Federal Spying on Customers
by Josh Peterson. They can hear you now (the Feds, that is). Verizon
updated its transparency report Monday to include orders issued
by the nation’s spy court. During the first six months of 2013, the nation’s spy court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, ordered Verizon between zero to 999 times to hand over content for 4,000 to ... MORE
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More Evidence The Fourth Amendment Is Dead
Minor traffic violations cause for cell phone searches. A judge decided last week that Oklahoma City, Oklahoma police were in
the right when they downloaded information off the mobile phone
belonging to Noe Vergara Wuences who was pulled over on March 22, 2012
because the temporary paper license plate on his new car ... MORE
Federal Judge Acknowledges NSA is "Almost Orwellian"
by Andrew Napolitano. "Almost Orwellian"—that's the description a federal judge gave earlier this week to the massive spying by the National Security Agency (NSA) on virtually all 380 million cellphones in the United States. In the first meaningful and jurisdictionally grounded judicial review of the NSA cellphone spying program, U.S. District Court ... MORE
Are You Consenting To Surveillance Right Now?
Jacob Sullum on the perilous condition of privacy. After her purse was snatched in 1976, Patricia McDonough began receiving threatening phone calls from a man who identified himself as her robber. Following one of the calls she saw a car she recognized from the scene of the crime slowly pass by her house in Baltimore. Police later ... MORE
Ronald Bailey: Five Phony Public Health Scares
Scaremongering sells. Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares range from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin causes cancer to the ongoing hysteria ... MORE
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nanny state,
propaganda,
regulation,
salt,
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Doug McKelway: Cell Phone Data Latest Threat To Privacy
Introducing warrantless searches of your phone. Amid concerns from privacy advocates about the government’s sprawling
surveillance programs, the Obama administration earlier this month
petitioned the Supreme Court in support of a federal court ruling that
allowed police searches of cell phones records without a warrant. ... MORE
Tim Lee: Obama Asks For Warrantless Cellphone Searches
Requests permission to ignore the Fourth Amendment. If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through
your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the
Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and
rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches. ... MORE
Obama Moves To Levy Cellphone Tax Without Congress
Government of unlimited power flexes its muscles. As we now know from the New York Times, the president hopes to "seize any opportunity I can find to work with Congress to strengthen the middle class, improve their prospects, improve their security. But where Congress is unwilling to act, I will take whatever administrative ... MORE
Ronald Bailey: The Top 5 Bogus Health Scares
How activist misinformation harms Americans. Health activists, nutrition nannies, medical paternalists, and just plain old quacks regularly conjure up a variety of menaces that are supposedly damaging the health of Americans. Their scares ranging from the decades-long campaign against fluoridation to worries that saccharin ... MORE
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disease,
health,
information,
nanny state,
obesity,
salt,
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Jacob Sullum: You Phone Is A Pocket Rat
Court approves warrantless cellphone tracking. Last month the New Jersey Supreme Court
ruled that police generally need a warrant to obtain
information about the locations of cellphone users. Last week the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit
said just the opposite. The first
decision was based on Article I, Paragraph 7 of the New ... MORE
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Cell Phones And The Expectation Of Privacy
by Jesse Wegman. Ninety-one percent of American adults now own a cell phone, according to a survey
by the Pew Research Center. Among those 44 and younger, ownership rises
to more than 95 percent. The cell phone is as ubiquitous a piece of
consumer technology as we have ever had, and may be the most rapidly adopted in history. ... MORE
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