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Search Warrant Privacy Laws

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Wiretap Order, not a Search Warrant, Needed to Obtain Certain Information from Facebook

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The April 18, 2022 Trending Law Blog post discussed how, in Facebook, Inc. v. State of New Jersey, the New Jersey Appellate Division held that a communications data warrant, rather than a wiretap order, was required for law...more

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Right to Privacy and Computers and Cellular Devices Search Warrants

On January 11, 2022, the Israeli Supreme Court, in an expanded panel of nine justices, prescribed a set of rules concerning procedures and judicial discretion on the granting of search warrants of computers and cellular...more

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United States senator plans to introduce new privacy legislation

Report on Supply Chain Compliance 3, no. 16 (August 20, 2020) - Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a coauthor of the Section 230 provision that shields internet companies from liability for content posted on their platforms,...more

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Fitbit Data Provides Clues in Murder Case: eDiscovery & Criminal Investigation

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Once again, eDiscovery and emerging data sources are at the center of a criminal murder investigation. A recent article in Wired highlights how investigators used data from the victim’s Fitbit and a neighbor’s Ring digital...more

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Utah Privacy Law Would Be First to Require Search Warrant for Government to Access Stored Data

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Utah Governor Gary Herbert is expected to sign a new privacy law in the coming weeks that will make his state the first to protect private electronic data stored with third-party providers from government access without a...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

UPDATE: Blurring The Line Between Foreign and Domestic: The Expansion of Search Warrant Powers Overseas

The fight over whether the government may access the data of companies and individuals that is stored overseas has officially made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. On October 16, the Supreme Court agreed to review the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Second Circuit Court of Appeals Denies Rehearing in Microsoft Case

Back in December 2013, a U.S. magistrate issued a seemingly routine warrant in a narcotics case demanding that Microsoft turn over messages from a customer’s email account that resided on a server in Ireland. That warrant,...more

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Second Circuit Holds that the U.S. Government Can’t Order Microsoft to Disclose Customer Emails Stored in Ireland

In a case closely watched by privacy advocates, on July 14, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”) does not authorize U.S. law enforcement authorities to order U.S.-based companies...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

Analogizing an Internet Accessible Computer to Broken Window Blind, Court Finds No Expectation of Privacy in Computers

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A federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia has held that a user utilizing a computer connected to the Internet has no expectation of privacy because hackers have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to circumvent...more

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California Updates Privacy Rights with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act

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Starting on New Years Day 2016, a new law will prohibit California law enforcement agencies from compelling California residents and businesses to turn over metadata or electronic communications (e.g., texts, emails,...more

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California Enacts Electronic Communication Privacy Statute, Connected Television Privacy Statute

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The California legislature recently enacted the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“CalECPA”) (Senate Bill 178), which provides greater protections against governmental searches for persons’ electronic...more

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