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  1. New legislation aims to roll back the expanded definition of Electronic Communications Service Providers and tighten FBI wiretap rules. It would restore stricter warrant requirements under the Fourth Amendment and curb data‑broker access to Section 702 data. Could this shift protect privacy or hinder investigations? Read more to find out. #ECSProvider #Section702 #FBIwiretap #FourthAmendment

    🔗 aidailypost.com/news/bill-repe

  2. EFF to #SupremeCourt : Shut Down #Unconstitutional #Geofence Searches

    Digital #Dragnets Violate #FourthAmendment , Brief Argues

    WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the American Civil Liberties Union ( #ACLU ), the ACLU of #Virginia, and the Center on #Privacy & Technology at #GeorgetownLaw filed a brief Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that invasive geofence #warrants are unconstitutional.
    #scotus #privacy

    eff.org/press/releases/eff-sup

  3. #SamAltman says #OpenAI will tweak its #Pentagon deal after #surveillance backlash
    "Consistent with applicable laws, including the #FourthAmendment to the #UnitedStates Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of #US persons and nationals," Altman wrote on X.
    businessinsider.com/openai-ame
    archive.ph/CLRm9

    Is this a real change or placating the masses after backlash over AI use and surveillance fears?

  4. 🎉BREAKING: Apparently, the Tenth Circuit just discovered the Fourth Amendment 📜 exists! Who knew? Meanwhile, protesters everywhere breathe a sigh of relief 😅 as they can finally stop worrying about their devices being treated like piñatas at a surveillance birthday party. 🎈🔍
    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/vict #FourthAmendment #TenthCircuit #PrivacyRights #SurveillanceProtests #DigitalFreedom #HackerNews #ngated

  5. Victory! #TenthCircuit Finds #FourthAmendment Doesn’t Support Broad #Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

    In a big win for protesters’ #rights , the U.S. #CourtofAppeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping #warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
    #protester #privacy

    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/vict

  6. "This fall, during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine working as a trial judge. We chatted, and I asked him what he was doing. He told me he worked for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    "I asked what ICE has to do with the United Nations, and he told me that soon ICE would be everywhere."

    #Constitution #ConstitutionalLaw #FourthAmendment #CivilRights #ICE
    washingtontimes.com/news/2026/