Are Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Legal?
Police may soon be able to snoop around your smart phone without a warrant.
Police may soon be able to snoop around your smart phone without a warrant.
House of Representatives voted down an amendment to limit the NSA’s powers to collect data on Americans who are not officially under investigation.
The laws governing electronic communication haven’t been updated in almost 30 years. That may finally be changing.
With midterm elections on the horizon and an Administration embroiled in multiple scandals, look for DC to spend more time focusing on tech policy.
The latest news out of Washington is that the IRS thinks that it can go through your emails, texts, and other electronic correspondence without a warrant. Of course, the Internet has not taken this lightly. After the massive response to the proposition of SOPA in 2011, we saw how the voices of people online can change the debate in Congress. Will that work with the IRS though? We don’t know. But we […]
The AP reports that Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) has just been named the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. Wicker, they say is making expanding broadband internet access to rural areas a priority. During the SOPA/PIPA legislation controversy Wicker called for a moderate “consensus” bill but never went into great detail about what that would look like. Should the Republicans win back the Senate, Wicker’s chairmanship […]