Corporate Data Brokers Help Law Enforcement Spy on Millions of Law-Abiding People by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The shady economy of data brokers vacuums up personal data from hundreds of millions of people — mostly in the U.S. but also in other countries­ — and this data is …

Illinois Law Protects Personal Data by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins A new Illinois statute is the first in the nation to require police to have a search warrant or the owner’s permission before accessing their data on a personal device. The Protecting Household Privacy Act, which went into effect …

Outdated Wiretap Law Gives Feds Easy Access to Metadata by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso A just-unsealed government wiretap application from November 2021 shows that DEA agents in Ohio applied to force WhatsApp to provide metadata on seven users, and all the agency had to say was that “the …

New Book Scrutinizes Data-Driven Policing by by Jayson Hawkins The protests in the summer of 2020 after the murder of George Floyd have succeeded in calling much of how American police operate into question. Though most of the focus has been on the use of deadly force, there have been …

Michigan Supreme Court: Police Must Limit Search of Cellphone Data to Uncovering Evidence of the Criminal Activity Alleged in Warrant by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Michigan held that police must limit a search of digital data from a cellphone in a manner reasonably directed to …