Michael Froomkin links to a story about a Federal Trade Commission subpoena sent to Google for the complete contents of a Gmail account, including deleted e-mail messages. (This is unrelated to the DOJ's subpoena to Google for search terms and…
Tag: 4th Amendment
NYT: Increasingly, Internet’s Data Trail Leads to Court
The New York Times has an article today about the privacy of one's online intellectual activities and the increasing tendancy of ISPs and other online service providers to share that information with law enforcement (hopefully only when presented with a…
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Iraqi Constitution Would Ban NSA Surveillance Program
Jack Balkin points out that under the new Iraqi constitution (passed with the support of the Bush administration), the NSA spying program would be unconstitutional. According to Article 38:The freedom of communication, and mail, telegraphic, electronic, and telephonic correspondence, and…
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Search Warrants in the Era of Digital Evidence
GW Law professor Orin Kerr has posted a draft of his new (and important) paper "Search Warrants in an Era of Digital Evidence." Here is the abstract:This Article contends that the legal rules regulating the search warrant process must be…
EFF Asks How Government Is Watching The Internet
It's been reported that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a FOIA request with the FBI and other offices of the US DOJ regarding expanded powers granted by the USA PATRIOT Act. The EFF is making the request in an…
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