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8 posts published by Tim Cushing, Dark Helmet, Mike Masnick, Gretchen Heckmann, and Karl Bode on February 3, 2023

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There are plenty of valid reasons to seek a search warrant. Investigating a crime you can't punish anyone for (because you've killed them) isn't one of them. That's the upshot of this recent federal court decision -- one that will no doubt be appealed to the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court to see if the cop-friendly…

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Geofence warrants get all the hype. But Google also stores other data of interest to law enforcement: Google searches. With these warrants, law enforcement asks Google to search its repositories for certain searches performed by users. Once the government has this data in hand, it will start asking Google to narrow things down. And, once…

The UK's mass surveillance programs haven't been treated kindly by the passing years (2013-onward). Ever since Snowden began dumping details on GCHQ surveillance, legal challenges to the lawfulness of UK bulk surveillance have been flying into courtrooms. More amazingly, they've been coming out the other side victorious. In 2015, a UK tribunal ruled GCHQ had…

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