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  1. [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." ...

    justsecurity.org/145214/chatri

    #chatrie #fourthamendment #search #seizures #probablecause

  2. 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
    #privacy

    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/cong

  3. #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:

    pro.sony/en_GB/products/pro-di

    #BeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #SlightlyJapanese

  4. #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:

    pro.sony/en_GB/products/pro-di

    #BeingEuropean #StayingEuropean #SlightlyJapanese

  5. Only one thing is going to stand in Trump's way — and he knows it | Opinion

    by Thom Hartmann, April 28, 2025

    "It didn’t happen in some shadowy back alley or under the cover of night.

    "It happened in broad daylight — in the heart of an American courthouse.

    "Federal agents, acting without even the decency of a signed warrant, stormed into Judge #HannahDugan’s courtroom on Friday morning and dragged her away like a common criminal. No warning. No legal process. No respect for the law she had spent a lifetime upholding.

    "But they made sure the cameras were there, so America could see what they were doing. Because this was not about justice. This was about terror.

    "This was a warning shot aimed directly at the beating heart of America’s judiciary: 'Fall in line — or you’re next.'

    "In that moment, the world’s oldest democracy lurched closer to the edge of #AuthoritarianRule. In that moment, America became a little less free — and a lot more like the nightmare #VladimirPutin always hoped we’d become.

    "The FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan last Friday without even having a legal arrest #warrant; this is as outrageous and #PoliceState illegal as an administration can get.

    "And #PamBondi’s performance Friday — after her federal agents swarm-raided this county judge — wasn’t staged for the general public.

    "The real audience was a very small, select group: America’s judges.

    "Their message is very simple: 'P--- us off, judges, and you could end up in prison, too.'

    "Trump has already pacified the Article I branch of government — Congress — and now he’s in the process of pacifying the Article III branch, the Judiciary.

    "There are only 3 branches to our government: cowing both Congress and the nation’s Judiciary will leave only the president in charge of the entire country under all circumstances in all ways.

    "Nothing and nobody else will be able to stop him, short of a military coup (and he’s already decapitated the senior leadership of the military) or unending demonstrations in the streets (demonstrators who may soon face live ammunition).

    "That is called dictatorship. Real dictatorship. Vladimir Putin-style dictatorship where you are punished for the smallest deviation from orthodoxy and can find yourself in #prison or sued into #bankruptcy if you dare speak out in public.

    "It appears more and more every day that #Putin is Trump’s mentor, if not his handler. Trump is doing everything he can, with help from a South African billionaire, to destroy the historic American infrastructure (which has been an example for the world for 250 years) and turn us into the newest member of the #dictators club, joining Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Hungary, North Korea, and the rest of the #fascist and #authoritarian world.

    "To get there, now that they’ve pacified every single Republican member of Congress (most recently, Don Bacon criticized Trump’s schizophrenic tariffs; a day later he started talking about retiring), they only have to seize control of the Judiciary, and then nothing except We The People will stand in their way.

    "Nothing. Will. Stand. In. Trump’s. Way. Except We The People. And he knows it.

    "Look at the striking parallels between Putin’s strategies and Trump’s actions:

    "From installing Trump’s loyalists in the military and the federal police agencies of the Department of Justice and FBI, to his open threats against freedom of the press, to the GOP’s efforts to rig elections and purge voters, Trump’s subversion of US democracy looks eerily familiar.

    "He’s taking pages directly from the autocrat’s handbook.

    "Trump has openly quoted and praised autocrats like Putin and Hungarian strongman #ViktorOrbán, who has presented his leadership in speeches to the GOP and CPAC as a model of an '#illiberal' state.

    "Trump’s not hiding his admiration for dictators; he’s flaunting it. And now he’s putting the final stages of their script into action.

    "Trump’s movement toward authoritarianism follows 'a known playbook. It’s unfolded in many other countries,' as journalist Anne Applebaum notes. 'These are democratically elected leaders who characterize themselves or describe themselves as deserving of no opposition. So I am the true Hungarian, or I am the only real American.'

    "In a mere matter of weeks into his presidency, Applebaum says, Trump and his allies “have managed to push America into that space somewhere between (no longer) democracy and full-scale autocracy.”

    "The speed is shocking, but it shouldn’t be surprising. It only took #Hitler #53Days to completely end democracy in Germany. Others, like Lukashenko, Orbán, Putin, Mussolini, Duterte, El-Sisi, and Erdoğan took longer (none longer than two years), but you could argue that Trump has been working at this project for 9 years now."

    Read more:
    msn.com/en-gb/news/world/only-

    #Fascism #TrumpIsABully #USPol #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #CharacteristicsOfFascism
    #ResistAuthoritarianism

  6. 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.

    #law #InfoSec #privacy

  7. The newly #unsealed docs — an exhaustive record of the #legal fight between #Twitter & the #DOJ over whether to hide the execution of the #warrant from #Trump — added a few new details about what the govt may have been seeking.

    For example, the materials showed that prosecutors wanted to learn if there were other accounts that Trump had been logging into from the same IP address he used for his Twitter account…. it was not clear whether… investigators had a specific reason to be asking.

  8. More Than 700,000 Ukrainian Children Taken To Russia Since Start Of War -- Russian Children's Minister was issued an arrest warrant for war crimes

    On March 17, the #International #Criminal #Court in The Hague issued an #arrest #warrant for Russian President Vladimir #Putin and Russian children's commissioner #Maria #Lvova-#Belova. They were charged with being responsible for the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia -- a #war #crime under international legislation

    Lvova-Belova has said that more than 700,000 Ukrainian children have been taken from Ukraine to Russia since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Lvova-Belova claimed that the vast majority of those children came to Russia accompanied by parents and relatives.

    rferl.org/a/russia-children-ta