{"id":23863,"date":"2016-09-25T08:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T13:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23863"},"modified":"2016-09-25T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T13:38:52","slug":"wapo-meet-the-judge-who-just-released-200-secret-government-surveillance-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23863","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Meet the judge who just released 200 secret government surveillance requests"},"content":{"rendered":"

WaPo: Meet the judge who just released 200 secret government surveillance requests<\/a> by Spencer Hsu:<\/p>\n

In ordering the first-ever release by a full federal district court of a year\u2019s worth of secret government surveillance requests, U.S. District Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of Washington this week added to a decades-long career spent charting the frontier of technology and the law in the nation\u2019s capital. Howell on Wednesday stepped into the fierce debate over the limits of secrecy and law enforcement searches in a digital age by releasing a list of more than 200 cases in which U.S. prosecutors in the District sought court orders for data about individuals\u2019 phone, email or online communications. Nationwide, more than 20,000 such orders were approved in 2013 alone; almost none ever are unsealed. The release came in a journalist\u2019s request for records and was heard by Howell in her relatively new capacity as chief judge, a seniority-based post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WaPo: Meet the judge who just released 200 secret government surveillance requests by Spencer Hsu: In ordering the first-ever release by a full federal district court of a year\u2019s worth of secret government surveillance requests, U.S. District Chief Judge Beryl … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23864,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23863\/revisions\/23864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}