The Supreme Court ruled that the government needs a warrant to access a person’s cellphone location history. The court found in a 5 to 4 decision that obtaining such information is a search under the ...

When it comes to rights against government surveillance, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Carpenter v. United States was greeted as an occasion for dancing in the streets. In ruling that ...

Background: In 2016, without first seeking a warrant, federal agents installed a surveillance camera on a pole across the street from the Kansas home of Bruce Hay as part of a disability-fraud ...

In United States v. Moore-Bush, 1 the First Circuit recently held that the government does not need a warrant to place a pole camera outside of a defendant’s home. The court considered whether the ...

This article explains how new surveillance and biometric tech, like drones and facial recognition, challenge privacy rights.

Prosecutors are generally a traditional lot and rarely big risk takers. Too much is hanging in the balance with people's lives and reputations. They expect close scrutiny of their work whether from ...

In Philip K. Dick’s novel Ubik, the sci-fi legend warned the world of the dangers of inanimate objects that could violate our privacy.[1] In a virtual nod to Ubik and Dick, the Fifth Circuit Court of ...

Carpenter v. Murphy has the Supreme Court once again reviewing the troubled history of the nation’s treatment of Native Americans. The specific question is whether the reservation once afforded the ...

Those who score big victories for the civil liberties of every American sometimes lose their own freedom. By Cristian Farias Mr. Farias is a member of the editorial board. Timothy Carpenter won’t be ...

One of the fascinating questions raised by the United States Supreme Court's 2018 decision in Carpenter v. United States is how the Fourth Amendment applies to government use of automated ...

This case concerns the First Step Act of 2018, in which Congress made major reductions to the mandatory minimum sentences for certain federal drug and firearm offenses. These changes result in ...

The Government conducts a Fourth Amendment search when it accesses cell phone records that include cell-site location information. After receiving information regarding a series of robberies, the ...