{"id":45268,"date":"2020-09-09T10:32:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45268"},"modified":"2020-09-09T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T15:32:56","slug":"techdirt-governments-reverse-warrant-rejected-by-two-consecutive-federal-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=45268","title":{"rendered":"Techdirt: Government’s ‘Reverse’ Warrant Rejected By Two Consecutive Federal Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Techdirt: Government’s ‘Reverse’ Warrant Rejected By Two Consecutive Federal Judges<\/a> by Tim Cushing (“Warrants are supposed to have a certain amount of particularity. These warrants have none. All they have are some coordinates and a clock. Fortunately, as the EFF reports, some judges are pushing back. ‘Two federal magistrate judges in three separate opinions have ruled that a geofence warrant violates the Fourth Amendment\u2019s probable cause and particularity requirements. Two of these rulings, from the federal district court in Chicago, were recently unsealed and provide a detailed constitutional analysis that closely aligns with arguments EFF and others have been making against geofence warrants for the last couple years.’ The unsealed order [PDF] — written by Magistrate Judge M. David Weisman — deals with a stolen pharmaceuticals investigation. Judge Weisman has a big problem with the vast amount of data this would give investigators and the lack of limits they’re willing to apply to themselves.”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Techdirt: Government’s ‘Reverse’ Warrant Rejected By Two Consecutive Federal Judges by Tim Cushing (“Warrants are supposed to have a certain amount of particularity. These warrants have none. All they have are some coordinates and a clock. Fortunately, as the EFF … 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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-tracking-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45268","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=45268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45269,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45268\/revisions\/45269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}