#warrant — Public Fediverse posts
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Let's talk about Sam #Tunick. Sam is an #Atlanta activist with Defend the Atlanta Forest, aka Stop Cop City. SCC had great #infosec, and the feds were hoping to bypass need for a #warrant by using border patrol. Most news stories are missing the fact that this was an #FBI action using #ICE as cover.
FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Officer Burnham and Special Agent Andrea Coble arranged for US CPB to question him and search his phone when he landed.
The unidentified searching officer in the indictment serves on #CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which allegedly gave FBI access to a search power they would not ordinarily possess inside the country.
Sam was refused an attorney and told he couldn't enter the country until "those guys were done with him", or he unlocked his phone...so he gave them an unlock code that wiped the phone. Now they are charging him with "destruction of evidence".
Sam's filing https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.351975/gov.uscourts.gand.351975.21.0.pdf
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The #FourthCircuit Says #Border Agents Can #Search Your #Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required
The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which @eff filed an amicus brief, alongside the national #ACLU, its #Maryland , #NorthCarolina , #SouthCarolina , and #Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (#NACDL ).
We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a #warrant based on probable cause, but at minimum, regardless of whether an officer searches by hand or with #forensic software that plugs into a device and downloads its entire contents for search, the same #FourthAmendment standard should apply to all device searches at the border.
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US Police Now Armed With #Israeli #Spy Vans Simulating #MobilePhone Towers
If you thought #Flock was bad check out #Falconet. Falconet from Israeli company #Cognyte serves as a cell tower simulator that intercepts cell phone data from all devices within range. #Police mount these systems in Tahoes so the vehicles can collect information while driving through areas without any direct interaction with targets. This mobile approach generates ongoing records of phone locations and communications for everyone nearby rather than only suspects, which creates comprehensive movement profiles and bypasses traditional #warrant requirements under the #FourthAmendment.
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You Opened a #CreditCard. #ICE Now Knows Where You Live
When you open a new credit card, you necessarily give the credit card company your address. You probably expect that information to remain with your bank.
But when you open a new credit card or change your address on file, your address leaves your credit card provider, travels through a web of middlemen companies, and ends up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which can then search, analyze, or pair that data with other pieces of information about your life without a #warrant.
#privacyhttps://www.404media.co/you-opened-a-credit-card-ice-now-knows-where-you-live/
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[en] Effects of #Technology on #Privacy Interests
"That [US #Fourth] #Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches or seizures of persons, houses, papers, and effects. Yet it is undeniable that #technological advances enable the police to pry into formerly #private areas in ways unimaginable to the drafters of the Bill of Rights."
"... [US] Supreme Court has updated the Fourth Amendment to #limit #unrestrained #police searches that draw on new technologies."
"... the Fourth Amendment requires a reasonable search, and generally requires a #warrant, when the government seeks to #compel the production of information from a service provider about an individual’s #location generated by his #phone." ...
https://www.justsecurity.org/145214/chatrie-fourth-amendment-supreme-court/
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Houston! We still have a 4th Amendment!
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell-phone location information.”
Simply stated the ruling makes clear - the 4th Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures and effectively protects privacy rights, APPLIES to LOCATION DATA collected from from cellphones.
Authorities need to obtain a search warrant when asking tech companies for the location data of their users, including when requesting historical geofence location data.
NOTE: some service providers (Google) store users’ location data locally on their devices prompting investigators to go to the users themselves to access this data. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/in-major-privacy-win-supreme-court-rules-geofence-warrants-are-protected-by-privacy-rights/ #SCOTUS #GeoFencing #GeoFenceData #Mobility #MobilePhones #Privacy #Search&Seizure #Warrant #LocationData #4thAmendment #Constitution #PrivacyRights #DataPrivacy #SearchWarrant #LawEnforcement
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#SupremeCourt ruling guts government’s use of #geofence #warrants
The #FourthAmendment protects a user’s “location history,” the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The same logic already applied to a cellphone’s #tracking , and the high court found “no good reason exists to reach a different result for Location History” collected by third parties like #Google.
Split 6-3, the majority agreed that the government needs a #warrant and must show reasonable cause to turn a phone's location-tracking services into a government #surveillance tool.
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An overview of today's supreme court rulings
The supreme court ruled that Donald Trump’s firing of #Federal #Reserve governor
Lisa Cook was unconstitutional,
in a landmark ruling that limits a president’s authority over the central bank.
In its opinion, the court said that Trump does not have the constitutional authority to fire a Fed governor without cause.
The ruling is a major win for the central bank, which has spent the last year under attack from the White House.
But, in a separate case, the justices ruled that Trump can #fire leaders of #independent #agencies or commissions,
ending 90 years of court precedent that curbs executive power.
That case centered on Rebecca Slaughter, whom Trump fired as Federal Trade Commission member in March last year over email,
telling her that keeping her as a commissioner would be “inconsistent with [the] administration’s priorities”.
The court handed Trump another loss, refusing to hear his bid to overturn a $5m verdict in favor of E Jean #Carroll
in a case in which a jury found him liable for #sexually #abusing the former magazine columnist and then #defaming her.
The 2023 jury verdict and a $5m civil judgment remain in place.The high court declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order.
There were no noted dissents.
The supreme court sided against national Republicans and the Trump administration to allow #mail-in #ballots that arrive after election day to be counted, upholding the law in more than a dozen states.
The Republican National Committee had challenged a Mississippi state law allowing mailed ballots to be counted if they arrive within five business days of election day, so long as they were postmarked by election day.
The court’s liberal justices pointed to federal laws that allow for grace periods, while noting that a ruling here could also implicate early voting, another common practice.
The court also refused to revive a $300m #defamation lawsuit filed against #CNN over its coverage of a prominent attorney’s remarks made while defending Trump during his 2020 impeachment.
Alan Dershowitz said CNN aired only a portion of the comment made during his defense of the president,
distorting his meaning to make him look like he’d “lost his mind”.
The network said that multiple outlets had interpreted his remarks in a similar way, and Dershowitz couldn’t show CNN was trying to mischaracterize what he said.
The court’s majority declined to take up the case in a brief, unexplained order.
And finally, the supreme court threw out a judicial decision involving a Virginia man’s challenge to a #geofence #warrant used by police to access cellphone location data near a crime scene leading to his conviction for armed robbery.
The justices threw out a lower court’s ruling against defendant Okello Chatrie, who had argued he was subjected to an illegal search
and that evidence in his case should be excluded.
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The 702 Ultimatum: #Warrant Requirement or Bust
For months now, #Congress has been kicking the ball down the road—temporarily postponing the expiration of the mass #surveillance authority #Section702 of #FISA in hopes that some consensus could be reached. Now, with the deadline looming, the stakes have never been higher. Nearly every time the statute has come up for renewal, the people demanding #privacy and civil liberties have had to compromise, but with current negotiations seemingly at an impasse, it’s time for surveillance maximalist lawmakers to come to the table.
We say to the Intelligence Community crowd: Section 702 should require a warrant before the Federal Bureau of Investigation can look at digital communications collected from Americans. If not, we should let the whole thing expire.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/702-ultimatum-warrant-requirement-or-bust
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#Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using #Flock to #Stalk People
There have been over a dozen cases around #US where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk
Cases highlight fact that Flock can be used to track whereabouts of individual people, #police do not get a #warrant in order to use system, and that, if they have access to the system, they have technical ability to look up any #licenseplate they want for any reason they want
https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/
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Grunge really did a number on glam metal bands in the 1990s. Record labels were demanding that metal bands make a “grunge album,” even if that wasn’t really their style.
This is Warrant’s grunge album, and Jani Lane’s excellent vocals really make it work!
It was his last album with Warrant. Rest in peace, Jani Lane.Artist: Warrant
Album: Belly to Belly (1996)
Release: 2026 reissue
Region: US
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"Heaven" is a song by American #glamMetal band #Warrant. The #powerBallad was released in July 1989 as the second single from Warrant's debut album, #DirtyRottenFilthyStinkingRich. The song is Warrant's most commercially successful single, spending two weeks at number two on the US #Billboard Hot 100 and number three on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. The track's commercial success has led it to becoming one of the best known songs by the band.
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Ok - this has now gotten SERIOUS! Musk and X (former CEO Yaccarino) now face a formal criminal investigation by France.
French cybercrime authorities are now investigating alleged algorithmic manipulation by X to influence and interfere in French politics, and allegations that Musk and X knowingly allowed users of the AI chatbot Grok to create and spread Holocaust denials and nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfake images, and child sexual abuse materials on X.
The Paris public prosecutor’s office is requesting indictments of X.AI Holdings Corp, X Corp, and X AI, Elon Musk, and Linda Yaccarino. If they fail to appear they may face judicial warrants that will serve as indictments. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/french-prosecutors-probe-of-elon-musk-x-now-a-criminal-investigation.html
DL the Prosecutors PR here (PDF in French): https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/sites/default/files/2026-05/2026-05-07%20-%20CP%20ouverture%20d%27information%20sur%20X.pdf
#France #CyberCrime #X #xAI #Grok #Musk #Yaccarino #AI #CrimminalInvestigation #Warrant #Indictment #SocialMedia #DeepFake #Politics #PoliticalManipulation #Crime
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https://www.npr.org/2026/04/26/g-s1-118359/supreme-court-geofencing-explainer-video
#Privacy #Law #Internet #FBI #ICE #Journalism #4th #Constitution #eff #NPR #Google #GeoFencing #Spy #Government #FourthAmendment #4thAmendment #MobilePhone #CellPhone #Technology #SCOTUS #Crime #Resist #Protest #Orwellian #Warrant #Court #Criminal #HumanRights #ACLU #USA #Politics #Data #BigTech #BigBrother
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The Latest Push to Extend Key US #Spy Powers Is Still a Mess
A US #surveillance program that lets the #FBI view Americans’ communications without a #warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors.
#privacy #security #section702https://www.wired.com/story/the-latest-push-to-extend-key-us-spy-powers-is-still-a-mess/
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#Nevada Police Can Now #Track #Cellphones Without a #Warrant
“ signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports AP. "All without a warrant." The software from #FogDataScience, adopted this January in Nevada through a Dept Public Safety contract, pulls info from apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices
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Knife, Warrant @ Schwarzer Keiler, Stuttgart am 01.04.2026
(Konzertbericht)
by Der RiedingerEin toller Ort für alle Langhaarigen, die ansonsten kaum Anlaufstellen im Kessel finden. Dabei sind heute zur Double-Headliner-Show der Düsseldorfer Speed Metal-Veteranen Warrant (nicht zu verwechseln mit der gleichnamigen Hair Metal-Band aus L.A.) und der Marburger Thrash/Speed Metaller Knife wahrlich nicht nur Metalheads da,…
https://vinyl-keks.eu/knife-warrant-schwarzer-keiler-stuttgart-am-01-04-2026/