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F.B.I. Seizes Web Servers, Knocking Sites Offline
law enforcement fail. "the agents took entire server racks, perhaps because they mistakenly thought that “one enclosure is = to one server,” [DigitalOne's CEO] said in an e-mail."
search-and-seizure  law-enforcement  fbi  fail  datacenters  racks  digitalone  usa  hosting 
june 2011 by jm
Ninth Circuit Court: Secret GPS Tracking is Legal | Executive Gov
'In the majority opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled that since Pineda-Moreno’s driveway wasn’t enclosed and was open to passersby like delivery men and neighborhood children, it didn’t pass the Dunn test for curtilage.  Never mind that in the Dunn opinion, the majority writes “we do not suggest that combining these factors produces a finely tuned formula that, when mechanically applied, yields a “correct” answer to all extent-of-curtilage questions.”'
Bushism  freedom  search-and-seizure  Constitutionality  feds  lawyers 
may 2011 by Vaguery
Balancing Security and Liberty (washingtonpost.com)
"Of course people shouldn't break the law or carry illegal objects. But the difference between civilian employees searching for bombs in airports and government agents conducting random searches for suspicious objects is the difference between preserving a free society and creating a police state."
privacy  security  search-and-seizure  constitutional-rights  WashingtonPost 
june 2009 by jschneider

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