On November 29, 2017, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Carpenter v. United States, which presents the question of whether the federal government must, under the Fourth Amendment, obtain a ...

The Supreme Court’s 9-0 opinion that the police may not, without a warrant, “search digital information on a cell phone seized from an individual who has been arrested,” is an occasion for defenders ...

I have been writing for years about the dangers to human freedom that come from government mass surveillance. The United States was born in a defiant reaction to government surveillance. In the decade ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday evening said the US government’s legal position on encryption backdoors was setting “a dangerous precedent.” That’s because, just a few hours prior, a federal judge ...

The various means which House librarians have devised to detect the loss and to secure the return of books illegally taken from the shelves are, for the most part, reasonable and effective alternativs ...