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EINSTEIN 2 could violate Fourth Amendment
The Homeland Security Department-led EINSTEIN 2 program that monitors all Internet traffic coming to and from federal computers could be a search subject to Fourth Amendment protections, the CRS says in the Secrecy News -posted report. Much hinges on whether the traffic monitored by EINSTEIN 2 was sent in the expectation of privacy.
Cybersecurity bills raise privacy and civil liberties concerns
Some proposed cybersecurity legislation calls for more cybersecurity-related information sharing, but this could give ISPs extraordinary powers to monitor networks.
Law enforcement tracks cell phones without warrants, says ACLU
Most of 200 state and local law enforcement agencies that responded to freedom of information requests from American Civil Liberties Union chapters disclosed documents showing they engage in cell phone tracking without a warrant, the ACLU said April 2.
DOJ argues for warrantless cell phone records
The federal government argues in a brief (.pdf) submitted Feb. 15 to the fifth circuit court of appeals that it doesn't need a warrant to in order to obtain 60 days' worth of historical cell phone
Book excerpt: 'Surveillance or Security' by Susan Landau
How far the ability of law enforcement and counterterrorism to penetrate communications should go hasn't been a theoretical discussion of our post-Sept. 11, 2001 era. In a new book , "Surveillance or
