Google used loaded language on Wednesday to warn that a Justice Department proposal will make it easier for U.S. law enforcement to reach into remote computers, and that it could upset diplomatic… Read more »
The political fallout of WikiLeaks has passed, but the fury of law enforcement has not. More than four years after the organization published a trove of U.S. diplomatic cables, federal agents continue… Read more »
Search warrants issued by an American judge only cover U.S. territory. The Justice Department wants to change that — even as Microsoft fights in court to stop a search warrant from… Read more »
Can U.S. search warrants, which traditionally only apply to places within American borders, cover emails held on a server in Ireland? A new court ruling shows how Microsoft and the U.S… Read more »
Search warrants issued by American courts allow law enforcement agents to search a place. Until now, it is clear that such places could only be in the U.S. Read more »
File-sharing kingpin Kim Dotcom has so far had the upper hand in a legal fight over the FBI’s attempt to extradite him from New Zealand. That changed this week. Read more »
I’d argue this is a prime example of when metadata is used correctly. If the other nearly 150,000 phone numbers were never investigated and the records were deleted once the feds… Read more »
An alarming story about a Senate plan to let federal agencies read your email turns out to have been a false alarm. Unfortunately, fears over online privacy mean such stories travel… Read more »