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Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court
Photo: anthonycmaki/Flickr The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments on whether it should halt a legal challenge to a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans’ communications, a program that Congress eventually legalized in...Court Demands TSA Explain Why It Is Defying Nude Body Scanner Order
Images: TSA A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered the Transportation Security Administration to explain why it hasn’t complied with the court’s year-old decision demanding the agency hold public hearings concerning the rules and...Few Companies Fight Patriot Act Gag Orders, FBI Admits
Photo: Chotda/Flickr Since the Patriot Act broadly expanded the power of the government to issue National Security Letters demanding customer records, more than 200,000 have been issued to U.S. companies by the FBI....Exiled Americans’ Challenge to No-Fly List Gets Day in Court
Illustration courtesy ACLU. About a dozen U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who cannot fly to or from the United States because they are on the so-called “ no-fly list ” will finally...Constitutional Showdown Voided: Feds Decrypt Laptop Without Defendant’s Help
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