Category: constitution

Court reinstates lawsuit challenging online sex trafficking law

Post author By Randall
Post date January 26, 2020
Categories In constitution, first amendment, fosta, fosta-sesta, free speech, gear, Internet, law, lawsuit, Politics, sesta, sex trafficking, Tech

[ad_1] Critics have argued that FOSTA-SESTA’s language is too vague and affects many more people than sex traffickers, including sex workers looking for support, people advocating for legal prostitution and services like massages that are sometimes thinly-veiled ads for sexual services. The law has led Craigslist and other sites to shut down sex-related categories and […]

Wikipedia comes back online in Turkey after multi-year ban

Post author By Randall
Post date January 16, 2020
Categories In ban, constitution, Entertainment, Facebook, free speech, Internet, Politics, Security, Tech, turkey, Twitter, wikimedia, wikipedia, Youtube

[ad_1] However, the decision was reversed in December last year by Turkey’s Constitutional Court — the highest court in the country. The court deemed the ban unconstitutional, and ruled that the restriction violated free speech. Local reports say that access to Wikipedia is now being restored across the country, although some users will be able […]

Pennsylvania court rules suspect can’t be forced to provide his password

Post author By Randall
Post date November 24, 2019
Categories In civil liberties, constitution, crime, fifth amendment, gear, Internet, law, password, pennsylvania, Politics, Privacy, rights, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Justice Debra Todd noted that revealing a password is testimonial as it’s a “verbal communication” that reveals your mind, not just a physical act like providing a blood sample. It also pointed to federal Supreme Court precedent where people couldn’t be forced to reveal the combination to a wall safe — in both cases, […]

Federal judge rules suspicionless device searches at the border are illegal

Post author By Randall
Post date November 12, 2019
Categories In aclu, border, cbp, civil liberties, constitution, customs and border protection, department of homeland security, eff, fourth amendment, gear, government, homeland security, ice, immigration and customs enforcement, law, Politics, Privacy, Security, Tech

[ad_1] Casper also rejected the government’s claim that suspicionless searches would cause minimal harm, noting that agents could both look at past searches and were more likely to search people if there had already been a search before. The ACLU and EFF filed the lawsuit on behalf of 11 travelers (all but one of which […]

FBI use of NSA’s electronic surveillance data was illegal

Post author By Randall
Post date October 8, 2019
Categories In americans, constitution, court, database, fbi, foreign intelligence surveillance act, foreign intelligence surveillance court, fourth amendment, gear, intelligence, Politics, prism, Privacy, ruling, search, section 702, section702, Security, surveillance, Tech, tomorrow, us, violated

[ad_1] The NSA database included both “upstream” and “downstream” (better known as PRISM) surveillance of electronic communications collected without a warrant under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In some cases, the database swept up info about American citizens. The FISA court, under U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, found tens of thousands […]