Category Archives: Digital privacy

WaPo: Meta AI users confide on sex, God and Trump. Some don’t know it’s public.

WaPo: Meta AI users confide on sex, God and Trump. Some don’t know it’s public. by Naomi Nix & Nitasha Tiku (“Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.”)

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EFF: Hell No: The ODNI Wants to Make it Easier for the Government to Buy Your Data Without Warrant

EFF: Hell No: The ODNI Wants to Make it Easier for the Government to Buy Your Data Without Warrant by Matthew Guariglia (“New reporting has revealed that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is attempting to create … Continue reading

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Reason: Stewart Baker vs. Orin Kerr on “The Digital Fourth Amendment”

Reason: Stewart Baker vs. Orin Kerr on “The Digital Fourth Amendment” (“A debate between Volokh bloggers.”)

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NYT: Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

NYT: Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans by Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik (“In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile … Continue reading

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The Intercept: U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data

The Intercept: U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data by Sam Biddle (“The ever-growing market for personal data has been a boon for American spy agencies. The U.S. intelligence community is now … Continue reading

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Reason: New Montana Law Blocks the State From Buying Private Data To Skirt the Fourth Amendment

Reason: New Montana Law Blocks the State From Buying Private Data To Skirt the Fourth Amendment by Joe Lancaster (“The Big Sky State becomes the first to close the ‘data broker loophole’ allowing the government to get private information without … Continue reading

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Reason: Revised Version of “Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment”

Reason: Revised Version of “Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment”; Now up to date. by Orin S. Kerr:

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techpolicy: Reverse Keyword Search Warrants and the Threat to Online Privacy

techpolicy: Reverse Keyword Search Warrants and the Threat to Online Privacy by Abigail Zislis (“Online privacy rights, already limited in the United States, face new threats from the advent of reverse keyword search warrants. In recent years, local and federal … Continue reading

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techdirt: Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare

techdirt: Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare by Cathy Gellis:

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Reason: Government Misuse of Data Rightly Worries Americans

Reason: Government Misuse of Data Rightly Worries Americans by J.D. Tuccille (“Federal agencies frequently buy their way around the Fourth Amendment.”) But not Congress.

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techdirt: CBP Tells Senator Ron Wyden It Will Stop Buying Location Data From Third Parties

techdirt: CBP Tells Senator Ron Wyden It Will Stop Buying Location Data From Third Parties by Tim Cushing:

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techdirt: Bill Limiting Data Broker Sales To Law Enforcement Moves Forward

techdirt: Bill Limiting Data Broker Sales To Law Enforcement Moves Forward by Tim Cushing (“The Supreme Court made it clear in 2018 with its Carpenter decision: gathering historical cell site location info in bulk was impermissible under the Fourth Amendment. … Continue reading

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EFF: Even the Government Thinks It Should Stop Buying Corporate Surveillance Data

EFF: Even the Government Thinks It Should Stop Buying Corporate Surveillance Data by Andrew Crocker (“Courts should respect Fourth Amendment precedent by continuing to disallow the government from buying personal data without a warrant.”)

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NYT: One of the Last Bastions of Digital Privacy Is Under Threat

NYT: One of the Last Bastions of Digital Privacy Is Under Threat by Julia Angwin:

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Motherboard: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion

Motherboard: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion by Jason Koebler and Anna Merlan (“Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager’s private chats about her abortion. Cops then used … Continue reading

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Bloomberg: ACLU Blasts Homeland Security Agency for Use of Location Data

Bloomberg: ACLU Blasts Homeland Security Agency for Use of Location Data by Ellen M. Gilmer (“Civil liberties advocates are accusing the Department of Homeland Security of skirting the Fourth Amendment by buying access to people’s cellphone location data.”)

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Politico: Amazon gave Ring videos to police without owners’ permission

Politico: Amazon gave Ring videos to police without owners’ permission by Alfred Ng (“The revelation highlights the many ways that police can get footage from Ring doorbells, and how often it happens without consent.”)

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N.D.Cal.: Another round in the Google sale of consumer information case

In the ongoing Google privacy case involving its selling of personal information, another motion to dismiss is granted in part and denied in part. In re Google RTB Consumer Priv. Litig., 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115023 (N.D. Cal. June 13, … Continue reading

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WaPo: Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone

WaPo: Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone by Geoffrey A. Fowler (“In post-Roe America, Google searches and location records can be evidence of a crime. Here are four ways Google should protect civil rights in its … Continue reading

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Forbes: Warrants Can Force Google To Look Through Your Search History–A Tragic Arson Case May Decide If That’s Constitutional

Forbes: Warrants Can Force Google To Look Through Your Search History–A Tragic Arson Case May Decide If That’s Constitutional by Thomas Brewster (“This week, Mike Price, counsel for Seymour and Fourth Amendment Center litigation director at the National Association of … Continue reading

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