The Supreme Court’s decision requiring a warrant for searches of cell phones incident to arrest affirms that we are entitled to privacy in the digital age.  These expectations, the Chief Justice explains...

You've likely heard the news, made earlier this morning by the opinion in Riley v. California.  

Earlier this morning, we featured a post regarding key developments in the Mohamud criminal case in Oregon.

Coincidentally, they come to us from two different federal judges in the District of Oregon. The first decision concludes that remedial mechanisms associated with the so-called "No Fly" list violate due...

I largely agree with Steve Vladeck's excellent post on Judge Richard Posner's decision yesterday in Daoud and Judge Ilana Rovner's concurrence in that decision.

Paul already flagged yesterday’s Seventh Circuit decision in Daoud, in which the Court of Appeals reversed Judge Coleman’s headline-grabbing order—which had required the government to provide Daoud’s sec...

The case is US v. Daoud.  The district court had ordered disclosure of certain FISA materials that were classified to defense counsel.  The 7th Circuit, per Judge Posner, reversed.  The money quote: The ...

The other day, I linked to the first two contributions to Cato Unbound's forum, “The Snowden Files: One Year Later.” Now Carrie Cordero has added an essay, which opens: There is no

The question long has confronted policymakers, advocates, scholars, technologists, and consumers.

If you believe Glenn Greenwald's new book (which I reviewed here), the NSA's appetite for gobbling up communications is unlimited. Legal controls on its behavior are trivial. Its much-repeated claim that...

I’m sure that I and others will have more to say about this in the future, but in the meantime, here is the summary and 88-page Vodafone transparency report  that has been widely