The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to end mass collection of phone data by the National Security Agency, while still allowing for searches of the data…
A sales executive in Bakersfield, California, claims she was fired because she removed an app from her company-issued cellphone that allowed her boss to track her location 24 hours a…
Federal agents who seized a laptop computer without a warrant at the Los Angeles International Airport may not use the contents in a prosecution against a South Korean businessman, a…
A judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit against “all homosexuals” by a Nebraska woman who claimed to be acting as an ambassador for God and his son, Jesus Christ.
A sweeping National Security Agency program that collects and stores so-called metadata for nearly all United States phone calls in a searchable database is not authorized by the Patriot Act,…
A court order authorizing disclosure of cellphone business records showing a suspect was in the vicinity of six armed robberies didn’t violate his Fourth Amendment rights, though they were obtained…
Lawmakers in France’s lower house of Parliament have approved an anti-terrorism bill that would expand government surveillance powers, including the ability to mine Internet data.
The U.S. Justice Department is reviewing use of stingray devices by federal agencies and will reveal more information about why the devices are used, according to a published report.
A California appeals court last week turned down an open records request for invoices documenting legal fees paid to law firms defending Los Angeles County in inmate lawsuits.
Evidence from a stingray surveillance device that traced a homicide victim’s stolen phone to the home of a suspect can be used in the suspect’s murder trial, a Baltimore judge…
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