From declan@well.com Fri Jul 6 02:42:04 2018 From: Declan McCullagh To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: [Politech] Judge denies Feds' cell-phone tracking request, in first case of its kind [priv] Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:42:04 +0000 Message-ID: <172289244099.3881296.9806897161266731114.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1021202681562997052==" --===============1021202681562997052== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5846037.html "Police blotter" is a weekly report on the intersection of technology and the law. This episode: Feds' location-tracking rebuffed. What: In the first case of its kind, a federal judge chastises the U.S. Department of Justice for trying to constantly track a cell phone user's location without providing any proof of criminal behavior. When: Decided Aug. 25 by U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein in Central Islip, N.Y. Outcome: Justice Department's Patriot Act surveillance request was denied. [...remainder snipped...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl leitl ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which h= ad a name of signature.asc] --===============1021202681562997052==--