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Bonnie Kristian Rare.us 4/23/2015 You may have heard that key provisions of the deceptively named PATRIOT Act—the law passed in the wake of 9/11 which gave the government massive new legal authority to invade our privacy and ignore the Fourth Amendment—are set to expire in June. Most notable among what will expire is Section 215: […] April 23rd, 2015 | Tags: National Security Agency, Patriot Act, Section 215, Sen. Mitch McConnell, USA Freedom Act | Category: 4th Amendment, Congress, legislation, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
Matthew Boyle Breitbart.com Big Government 14 Mar 2015 BOWIE, Maryland — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was a hit speaker on the campus of Bowie State University on Friday, earning several rounds of applause and a standing ovation for the conservative message he delivered to a predominantly liberal audience at the historically black university—part of an […] March 14th, 2015 | Tags: ‘writs of assistance’, "Common Core of State Standards Initiative Project", Bill of Rights, Bowie State University, civil forfeiture, criminal justice reform, families, indefinite detention, mandatory minimum sentencing, National Security Agency, school choice, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: 4th Amendment, Education, Employment, Federal Judges, Founding Fathers, law enforcement, legislation, Politics, Racism, Taxes, US Constitution | Comments are closed
The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the online encyclopaedia, is arguing that the NSA’s surveillance violates the First Amendment Andrew Griffin The Independent [UK] 10 March 2015 Organisations including the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, have filed a lawsuit against the NSA and the US Department of Justice over its surveillance programmes. The lawsuit was filed […] March 10th, 2015 | Tags: ACLU, National Security Agency, surveillance, Wikipedia | Category: 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, Internet, Maryland, Right to Privacy | Comments are closed
Fox News Insider FoxNews.com 9/29/2014 A new city ordinance in Seattle will allow garbage collectors to assess fines of up to $50 if 10% of a person’s trash is wasted food. Judge Andrew Napolitano appeared on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” today and said this law should be trashed, because it is unknowable, for example, […] September 29th, 2014 | Tags: "Nanny" state, food, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Seattle, trash | Category: 4th Amendment, law enforcement, Progressives, Washington | Comments are closed
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain FirstLook.org 9 Jul 2014 The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers—under secretive procedures intended to target terrorists and foreign spies… …The individuals appear on an NSA spreadsheet in the Snowden archives called […] July 10th, 2014 | Tags: Agha Saeed, al Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Asim Ghafoor, domestic surveillance, Edward Snowden, espionage, Faisal Gill, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA), Glenn Greenwald, Hamas, Hezbollah, Hooshang Amirahmadi, National Security Agency, Nihad Awad, Samir Khan | Category: 1st Amendment, 4th Amendment, FBI, Islam, terrorism | Comments are closed
Major ruling updates privacy laws for 21st century Stephan Dinan The Washington Times 6/25/2014 The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police must obtain warrants before snooping through people’s cellphones, delivering a unanimous decision that begins to update legal understanding of privacy rules to accommodate 21st-century technology. Police agencies argued that searching through data on cellphones […] June 25th, 2014 | Tags: cell phones | Category: 4th Amendment, law enforcement, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
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