Authored by Jenna McLaughlin via TheIntercept.com,
Courts across the country are grappling with a key question for the information age: When law enforcement asks a company for cellphone records to track location data in an investigation, is that a search under the Fourth Amendment?
By a 12-3 vote, appellate court judges in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday ruled that it is not — and therefore does not require a warrant.
A U.S. judge ordered the destruction of vital 9/11 evidence during a trial held at a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, according to leaked documents. Judge James Pohl allegedly colluded with prosecutors to hide evidence that supported the defense of suspected 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, thus harming his case, the court document says. Commondreams.org reports: The accusation could be the impetus to reform the highly controversial tribunals at the U.S.
A U.S. appeals court has ruled against privacy, in a landmark case that will allow authorities to obtain a person’s cellphone location without a warrant. The ruling marks a major setback for privacy advocates who claim that the U.S. government can now effectively track any citizen without their knowledge or permission. The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, voted 12-3 that the federal government can access the user data due to the fact that it had already been disclosed to a third party.
All along Hillary Clinton has pled that when it comes to her violation of Federal regulations, she was at worst naive, hardly malicious and - as of recently - merely doing what each of her state department predecessors has done; and she has been very careful to make it clear that she never purposefully and intentionally "stripped" confidential data in order to send it through her unsecured server as such an act would imply not only a breach of email retention policy, but a willful abuse of confidential documents.
A Turkish court has convicted Miss Turkey 2006 of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, giving her a 14-month suspended prison sentence. 27 year old model Merve Buyuksarac was found guilty of insulting a public official for postings she made on social media in 2014. The case was based on a satirical verse she had reposted on her Instagram account.