The National Security Agency may have unlawfully collected as many as tens of thousands of emails and other electronic communications between Americans under a now-discontinued surveillance program, according to a…
An HIV-positive man cannot be prosecuted for engaging in consensual sex after disclosing his HIV status to his partner, the Minnesota Supreme Court has held.
Online U.S. and global businesses selling to Brazil-based consumers may have new privacy laws to contend with in the wake of concerns over revelations about National Security Agency surveillance activities.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security tested a crowd-scanning system last fall that could be used to identify faces of people on a terrorism watch list.
Updated: The founder of Groklaw has decided to shut down the technology blog because of fears its email communications could be subject to government surveillance.
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was asked at an appearance Tuesday whether the justices email each other, she responded that they send each other paper memos—just like they…
Reports of a telephone scam, involving accusations of shirking federal jury duty, are prompting courts to remind the public that they rarely contact potential jurors by phone.
President Obama has sought to reassure Americans about U.S. surveillance of phone call and Internet records by pointing to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
An audit leaked by Edward Snowden to the Washington Post reveals that the National Security Agency collected or accessed legally protected communications 2,776 times in a…
A cert petition before the U.S. Supreme Court seeks to overturn a settlement agreement in which Facebook agreed to pay about $6.5 million to establish a new foundation to protect…
Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein is an originalist who opposed the Patriot Act and supports the right to be left alone. He is also the pro bono lawyer for Lon Snowden,…
A federal appeals court is allowing a former college athlete to pursue a right-of-publicity lawsuit against a video game maker that used an avatar with his…
A federal appeals court has ruled that the federal government doesn’t need a warrant to obtain historical data showing the general location of cellphone calls.
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