On midnight on Sunday, key provisions of the “Patriot Act” expired, including those points that say that the government can listen to and track any American’s phone calls without a warrant. Although the Senate convened a rare late-night Sunday session to try to reach a compromise, Kentucky Senator and presidential hopeful Rand Paul was able […]
Yesterday, in the case of Riley v. California, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that police must have a warrant before searching the cell phones of people they arrest. Read the full ruling here. The ruling applies to local police jurisdictions but does not affect National Security Agency (NSA) data collection programs that were leaked, over […]
