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- Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/04/16/utah-bans-police-from-searching-digital-data-without-a-warrant-closes-fourth-amendment-loophole/ 90 comments
- Verizon fell for fake "search warrant," gave victim's phone data to stalker https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/verizon-fell-for-fake-search-warrant-gave-victims-phone-data-to-stalker/ 163 comments
- FBI Searched the Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/fbi-searched-the-data-of-millions-of-americans-without-warrants 6 comments cryptocurrency
- FBI Searched the Data of Millions of Americans Without Warrants https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/fbi-searched-the-data-of-millions-of-americans-without-warrants 1420 comments technology
- Search warrant for Signal user data, Santa Clara County https://signal.org/bigbrother/santaclara/ 3 comments signal
- N.S.A. Sifting Broader Set of Data systematically searching — without warrants — through the contents of Americans’ communications that cross the border http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/us/broader-sifting-of-data-abroad-is-seen-by-nsa.html 88 comments worldnews
- Microsoft Is Challenging The US Government’s Use Of Search Warrants To Access Data Stored Abroad http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/25/microsoft-is-challenging-the-us-governments-use-of-search-warrants-to-access-data-stored-abroad/ 10 comments business
- Search-warrant demands that Google turn over account info, Android info, all accounts and passwords, calendar, contacts, cloud docs, financial data, photos, location history, search history, call records, etc https://boingboing.net/2019/12/17/organize-the-worlds-informatio-2.html 78 comments degoogle
- Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/04/16/utah-bans-police-from-searching-digital-data-without-a-warrant-closes-fourth-amendment-loophole/ 44 comments privacy
- Utah Bans Police From Searching Digital Data Without A Warrant, Closes Fourth Amendment Loophole https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2019/04/16/utah-bans-police-from-searching-digital-data-without-a-warrant-closes-fourth-amendment-loophole/#a94add476306 32 comments technology
- Supreme Court rules law enforcement needs warrant to search cellphone data http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/393629-supreme-court-rules-law-enforcement-needs-warrant-to-search 3 comments politics
- Move to require warrants for searches of U.S. data fails in House https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-surveillance-warrants/move-to-require-warrants-for-searches-of-u-s-data-fails-in-house-iduskbn1f027a?il=0 8 comments politics
- One Vote Short: FISA Amendment Requiring Warrants For Browser & Search Data Fails https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200513/11052544492/one-vote-short-fisa-amendment-requiring-warrants-browser-search-data-fails.shtml 16 comments politics
- 8chan Served Search Warrant for Alleged Poway Synagogue Shooter’s Posts, Data on Other Users https://www.thedailybeast.com/poway-synagogue-shooting-8chan-served-search-warrant-for-alleged-shooters-posts-data-on-other-users 17 comments technews
- 8chan Served Search Warrant for Alleged Poway Synagogue Shooter’s Posts, Data on Other Users https://www.thedailybeast.com/poway-synagogue-shooting-8chan-served-search-warrant-for-alleged-shooters-posts-data-on-other-users 64 comments technology
- 8chan Served Search Warrant for Alleged Poway Synagogue Shooter’s Posts, Data on Other Users https://www.thedailybeast.com/poway-synagogue-shooting-8chan-served-search-warrant-for-alleged-shooters-posts-data-on-other-users?source=twitter&via=desktop 151 comments politics
- ACLU Challenges Warrant To Search Data Of Facebook Page For Group Protesting Dakota Access Pipeline https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-challenges-warrant-search-data-facebook-page-group-protesting-dakota-access-pipeline 3 comments politics
- Google hands over WikiLeaks Volunteers private data to the U.S. government without a search warrant http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_hands_wikileaks_volunteers_gmail_data_to_us.php 3 comments reddit.com
- Carefully plan ahead what wallet to store on your phone while crossing US boarder - US Senator Wyden: Border Agents Are Searching Phones Without Warrants and Storing Data for 15 Years https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/us-senator-wyden-border-agent-rights-abuse/ 24 comments bitcoin
- Manhattan DA Got Innocent People's Google Phone Data Through A 'Reverse Location' Search Warrant https://gothamist.com/2019/08/12/google_proud_boys_antifa_nypd.php 20 comments technology
- Manhattan DA Got Innocent People's Google Phone Data Through A 'Reverse Location' Search Warrant https://gothamist.com/2019/08/12/google_proud_boys_antifa_nypd.php 3 comments law
- Close Enough - Police departments are using “reverse location search warrants” to force Google to hand over data on anyone near a crime scene. https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/reverse-location-search-warrants-google-police.html 5 comments technology
- Police departments are using “reverse location search warrants” to force Google to hand over data on anyone near a crime scene. https://slate.com/technology/2019/02/reverse-location-search-warrants-google-police.html 11 comments privacy
- Just turning your phone on qualifies as searching it, court rules: Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/just-turning-your-phone-on-qualifies-as-searching-it-court-rules/ 623 comments technology
- Just turning your phone on qualifies as searching it, court rules: Location data requires a warrant since 2018; lock screen may now, too. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/just-turning-your-phone-on-qualifies-as-searching-it-court-rules/ 101 comments apple
- Starting Jan 1st, all law enforcement in California will have to obtain a search warrant before looking at private emails, texts, cloud data, and more http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-new-laws-2016-htmlstory.html 383 comments technology
- "Google can reset the passcodes when served with a search warrant and an order instructing them to assist law enforcement to extract data from the device. This process can be done by Google remotely and allows forensic examiners to view the contents of a device."-Manhattan District Attorney's Office http://manhattanda.org/sites/default/files/11.18.15%20report%20on%20smartphone%20encryption%20and%20public%20safety.pdf 36 comments crypto
- "Google can reset the passcodes when served with a search warrant and an order instructing them to assist law enforcement to extract data from the device. This process can be done by Google remotely and allows forensic examiners to view the contents of a device."-Manhattan District Attorney's Office http://manhattanda.org/sites/default/files/11.18.15%20report%20on%20smartphone%20encryption%20and%20public%20safety.pdf 883 comments technology
- US judge rules US digital search warrants apply to foreign-based data centers and other nations must comply (Azure looking less lovely as Microsoft ordered to hand over e-mails held in Dublin). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/28/us_judge_digital_search_warrants_apply_everywhere/ 21 comments worldnews
- In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access (2010) http://edition.cnn.com/2010/opinion/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html 244 comments technology
- “We now know that data from any call, internet search, or website you visited over the past two years could be stored in GCHQ’s database and analysed at will, all without a warrant to collect it in the first place,” http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/29/gchq-nsa-data-surveillance?cmp=twt_gu 18 comments worldnews
- Feds explain (sort of) why they really want data on seized iPhone 5S. DOJ: the search warrant remains active, so Apple should help us. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/feds-explain-sort-of-why-they-really-want-data-on-seized-iphone-5s/ 3 comments technology
- Cops may expand use of dragnet warrants of Google search data, experts warn | Court ruling may incentivize cops to push the envelope on novel surveillance tactics. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/cops-may-expand-use-of-dragnet-warrants-of-google-search-data-experts-warn/ 3 comments technology
- New US attorney general refuses to drop Microsoft foreign data warrant. US prosecutors will continue to seek data stored in Ireland using a federal search warrant http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-us-attorney-general-refuses-to-drop-microsoft-foreign-data-warrant/ 4 comments technology
- The Border Is a Back Door for U.S. Device Searches -- Newly released documents reveal how the government uses border crossings to seize and examine travelers’ electronic devices instead of obtaining a search warrant to gain access to the data http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/business/the-border-is-a-back-door-for-us-device-searches.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0 34 comments technology
- On March 11, 2009 Dallas FBI Special Agent Allyn Lynd obtained a warrant to search and seize equipment at four Data Centers in the Dallas area. Every last piece of technology -- down to the power-strips -- was seized. Regardless of who owned it. http://www.securityfocus.tv/dallascolo/ 9 comments reddit.com
- The government can read your emails, or gain access to any data that you have stored online for more than 180 days on sites such as Yahoo! Google Docs. It can do so without a search warrant. A new bill introduced by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy is a good step toward closing this huge loophole. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/26/block-big-brothers-internet-snoops/ 5 comments law
- The government can read your emails, or gain access to any data that you have stored online for more than 180 days on sites such as Yahoo! Google Docs, it can do so without a search warrant. A new bill introduced by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy is a good step toward closing this huge loophole. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/26/block-big-brothers-internet-snoops/ 127 comments politics
- No search warrant needed: Michigan state troopers search cell phones during minor traffic stops; they download existing, hidden, and deleted phone data, including call history, text messages, contacts, images, and geotags http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/34/3458.asp 41 comments politics
- The Supreme Court has passed a proposal from the ACCR into Congress which allows for any judge in the US to issue a warrant to remotely access, search, seize, or copy data from a user whose media or information has been concealed via VPN, proxy, tor, etc.. Congress votes on this in 5 months https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/rule-41-little-known-committee-proposes-grant-new-hacking-powers-government 43 comments worldnews