#warrant — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #warrant, aggregated by home.social.
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That summary was sent to Air Force One, even as #Trump told Fox News that same day that he was “not going to get involved” in the case.
#SecretService agents tailed #JamesComey’s car from North Carolina to Virginia. The “# 3 guy at DOJ ‘wanted to ping’” Comey’s phone without a traditional #warrant, according to the filing, a request that’s typically used only when an emergency — a dangerous, fleeing suspect, for instance — requires immediate action.
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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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[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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#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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Congress Is Dropping the Ball with a #CleanExtension of #FISA
not considering a requirement to obtain a #warrant before looking at data on US persons that was indiscriminately & warrantlessly collected. #HouseSpeaker #MikeJohnson confirmed that “the plan is to move a clean extension of FISA … for at least 18 months.”
House #Judiciary Chair #JimJordan , who has previously been a champion of both the warrant requirement & closing the #databroker loophole
#privacyhttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/congress-dropping-ball-clean-extension-fisa
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#GoodMorningEarlyTooters and #HappyHappy #FancyHatFurzday...
Are we all #BusyBusyBusy in #TheYearOfTheFireHorse; #SimplyBursting with #ExtraSpicy #RamadanFlavour...?!
I love #Ramadan; it's such a #BeautifulWord... #DontPanic, #NotMuslim and #StillNotMuslim...
Just a #LittleBitBuddhist... And, #SomewhatJewish...
And, #PartiallyZoroastrianic... With #RenewableProtestants...
#JustSo #YouKnow; #MyLittleBigBuddy has #ToldMeOff for #ClingingOn to #MyOldDumbTelly for #20Years... #IT #StillWorksPerfectly after #20Years; #So, there has been #SomeDebate as to #WhetherOrNot there's #AnyNeed to #ReplaceIT...
#TheBFF absolutely has #ZeroOpinion; #OtherThan, we don't #WatchEnoughTelly to #Warrant an #Upgrade, which is #VeryTrue
#ThatSaid; #MyLittleBigBuddy is a #YoungPup at #TheTenderAge of 35+ #Years and also #BuiltLikeABrickShitHouse, which are just #Some of #HisAttractiveQualities as a #Person
#So, #AtHisExpense, he has #Demanded that we #BiteTheBullet and #Discard / #Recycle #MyOldDumbTelly and #ReplaceIT with some #NewToyJoy...
#ComingSoon...
#DontPanic; there's #NoTVTuner in #IT; #So, we can #NotWatchTelly on #IT... #Instead, #IT comes with #ApplePlay and #ChromeCast #BuiltIn, which we can #NotUse, either...
#JustTheContent we want to #Watch and #ZeroAds... #So...
#HaveANiceDay; #OrSomething...
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#GoodMorningEarlyTooters and #HappyHappy #FancyHatFurzday...
Are we all #BusyBusyBusy in #TheYearOfTheFireHorse; #SimplyBursting with #ExtraSpicy #RamadanFlavour...?!
I love #Ramadan; it's such a #BeautifulWord... #DontPanic, #NotMuslim and #StillNotMuslim...
Just a #LittleBitBuddhist... And, #SomewhatJewish...
And, #PartiallyZoroastrianic... With #RenewableProtestants...
#JustSo #YouKnow; #MyLittleBigBuddy has #ToldMeOff for #ClingingOn to #MyOldDumbTelly for #20Years... #IT #StillWorksPerfectly after #20Years; #So, there has been #SomeDebate as to #WhetherOrNot there's #AnyNeed to #ReplaceIT...
#TheBFF absolutely has #ZeroOpinion; #OtherThan, we don't #WatchEnoughTelly to #Warrant an #Upgrade, which is #VeryTrue
#ThatSaid; #MyLittleBigBuddy is a #YoungPup at #TheTenderAge of 35+ #Years and also #BuiltLikeABrickShitHouse, which are just #Some of #HisAttractiveQualities as a #Person
#So, #AtHisExpense, he has #Demanded that we #BiteTheBullet and #Discard / #Recycle #MyOldDumbTelly and #ReplaceIT with some #NewToyJoy...
#ComingSoon...
#DontPanic; there's #NoTVTuner in #IT; #So, we can #NotWatchTelly on #IT... #Instead, #IT comes with #ApplePlay and #ChromeCast #BuiltIn, which we can #NotUse, either...
#JustTheContent we want to #Watch and #ZeroAds... #So...
#HaveANiceDay; #OrSomething...
🧙🏰🤖:wolfparty:🤖🏰🧙 | :Polymaths:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:Polymaths:
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#GoodMorningEarlyTooters and #HappyHappy #FancyHatFurzday...
Are we all #BusyBusyBusy in #TheYearOfTheFireHorse; #SimplyBursting with #ExtraSpicy #RamadanFlavour...?!
I love #Ramadan; it's such a #BeautifulWord... #DontPanic, #NotMuslim and #StillNotMuslim...
Just a #LittleBitBuddhist... And, #SomewhatJewish...
And, #PartiallyZoroastrianic... With #RenewableProtestants...
#JustSo #YouKnow; #MyLittleBigBuddy has #ToldMeOff for #ClingingOn to #MyOldDUmbTelly for #20Years... #IT #StillWorksPerfectly after #20Years; #So, there has been #SomeDebate as to #WhetherOrNot there's #AnyNeed to #ReplaceIT...
#TheBFF absolutely has #ZeroOpinion; #OtherThan, we don't #WatchEnoughTelly to #Warrant an #Upgrade, which is #VeryTrue
#ThatSaid; #MyLittleBigBuddy is a #YoungPup at #TheTenderAge of 35+ #Years and also #BuiltLikeABrickShitHouse, which are just #Some of #HisQualities as a #Person
#So, #AtHisExpense, he has #Demanded that we #BiteTheBullet and #Discard / #Recycle #MyOldDumbTelly and #ReplaceIT with some #NewToyJoy...
#ComingSoon...
#DontPanic; there's #NoTVTuner in #IT; #So, we can #NotWatchTelly on #IT... #Instead, #IT comes with #ApplePlay and #ChromeCast #BuiltIn, which we can #NotUse, either...
#JustTheContent we want to #Watch and #ZeroAds... #So...
#HaveANiceDay; #OrSomething...
🧙🏰🤖:wolfparty:🤖🏰🧙 | :Polymaths:🦹:fediverse:🦄:fediverse:🦹:Polymaths:
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#MahmoudKhalil appears before #immigration court in Louisiana this morning. Lawyers are asking the judge to #dismiss the #deportation case, arguing that his #arrest & #detention without a #warrant was #illegal & violated his #ConstitutionalRights.
#law #Trump #DueProcess #FirstAmendment #dissent #FreeSpeech #Columbia
https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2025/05/22/columbia-grad-mahmoud-khalil-back-court-case/83767788007/ -
2nd, & much more dramatically, the #FifthCircuit rules that bc the database of #geofence records is so large, & bc the whole database must be scanned through to find matches, the #FourthAmendment does not allow courts to issue #warrants to collect those records. In #legal terms, it is impossible to have a warrant particular enough to authorize the #surveillance. IOW, the govt can't gather these kinds of online records at all, even w/a #warrant based on #ProbableCause.
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Finally, on Feb 1, 4 days after the production deadline, #Twitter raised a #legal objection to the #nondisclosure order.
“Although the company did not question the validity of the #SearchWarrant, it asserted that the nondisclosure order was facially invalid under the First Amendment,“ Pan noted. “Twitter informed the govt that it would not #comply w/the #warrant until the district #court assessed the legality of the nondisclosure order.”
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“[T]he whole point of the nondisclosure order was to avoid tipping off… (Trump) about the #warrant’s existence,” the panel ruled….
The judges emphasized that the #nondisclosure order was temporary and reasonably tailored to protect the significant probe. The company, they noted “remained free to raise general concerns about warrants or nondisclosure orders, & to speak publicly about the #Jan6 investigation.”
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#Twitter’s fight w/ #JackSmith’s team was rooted in prosecutors’ decision to serve the #warrant along w/ a “#nondisclosure order” that prohibited Twitter from notifying #Trump about the warrant’s existence.