Privacy Rights

Court: Scent not enough for car search
by Charles Ashby | GJSentinel.com
Published on July 17, 2017
The indication by a drug-sniffing police dog to the presence of controlled substances in a vehicle by itself is not enough to constitute probable cause…
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NSA Top Hacker: Here’s How to Make My Life Hard
by Robert Hackett
Published on January 31, 2016
When Rob Joyce, head of the National Security Agency’s top hacking outfit, made an appearance at the brand new Usenix Enigma security conference in San…
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NSA says its new phone surveillance program meets privacy standards
by Farrha Khan
Published on January 26, 2016
The National Security Agency has today published its first transparency report, which states that its new phone surveillance program meets the privacy standards of the…
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Father who shot down drone hovering over his house as his daughter sunbathed is arrested – sparking new privacy debate
by DailyMail
Published on August 1, 2015
A father shot was arrested after shooting down an $1,800 drone that was hovering over his sunbathing daughter.
William H. Merideth, 47, from Kentucky was…
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Airport Security Advances Clash With Privacy Issues
by RON NIXON
Published on May 8, 2015
At a mock airport in an underground laboratory here at Northeastern University, students pretending to be passengers head through a security exit in the right…
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Creeps Embrace a New Tool: Peeping Drones
by Michael B Marois
Published on May 5, 2015
It was the blinking lights outside the 10th-story window of her San Jose, California, condo that startled Elsvette Buenaventura from her bed last year. When…
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No privacy in your trash, Minnesota Supreme Court rules
by Bob Collins, MPR News
Published on March 13, 2015
Rejecting a dissenting justice who said the nature of trash has changed, the Minnesota Supreme Court today ruled that you should have no expectation of…
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Secret Service testing drones, how to disrupt their flying
by Alicia A. Caldwell and Josh Lederman
Published on March 10, 2015
The Secret Service is conducting middle-of-the-night drone flights near the White House in secret tests to devise a defense against the unmanned aircraft, The Associated…
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Secrecy around police surveillance equipment proves a case’s undoing
by Ellen Nakashima
Published on February 23, 2015
The case against Tadrae McKenzie looked like an easy win for prosecutors. He and two buddies robbed a small-time pot dealer of $130 worth of…
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After Terror, Watching The Pendulum Swing Between Security and Privacy
by CHUCK TODD, MARK MURRAY AND CARRIE DANN
Published on January 8, 2015
If there’s an American political link to yesterday’s attack on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, it’s this: Every time there is well-publicized terrorist violence,…
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