A government contractor steals tens of thousands of highly-sensitive communications intercepts. The communications have national security implications, yes, but put that aside for now. They also involve ...

One of the most eagerly awaited aspects of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board ("PCLOB") report on section 702 surveillance was how the PCLOB would treat human rights issues.  In January, 201...

Get it? Actually, I don't think they did either. It's a cute coincidence. But at any rate, the PCLOB has announced that it will be releasing its report on FISA 702 collection this evening at 9:00 pm: The...

The Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Riley v. California that searching a cell phone requires a warrant is groundbreaking---and is, as everyone says, a great step forward for privacy. The decision i...

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a Somali-born American citizen, was convicted in January of last year of attempting to detonate a weapon of mass destruction after he tried to set off what he thought was a car bo...

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...