FBI violated Americans’ privacy by abusing access to NSA surveillance data, court rules; October 8, 2019

Nick Statt, The Verge; FBI violated Americans’ privacy by abusing access to NSA surveillance data, court rules

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation made tens of thousands of unauthorized searches related to US citizens between 2017 and 2018, a court ruled. The agency violated both the law that authorized the surveillance program they used and the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution.

The ruling was made in October 2018 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), a secret government court responsible for reviewing and authorizing searches of foreign individuals inside and outside the US. It was just made public today."

Judge Facciola Says Carpenter Decision May Signal the End of the Third Party Doctrine; JD Supra, July 5, 2018

JD Supra; Judge Facciola Says Carpenter Decision May Signal the End of the Third Party Doctrine

"The old view of the third-party doctrine must yield to new concerns about recent technology or what CJ Roberts called “the critical issue” of “basic Fourth Amendment concerns about arbitrary government power” that are “wrought by digital technology.”

Overall, the Roberts Court seems to understand electronic privacy’s importance, especially when Carpenter is coupled with the previous decisions in US v Jones (2011), which required a warrant before police placed a GPS tracker on a vehicle and Riley v California (2014) which forbade warrantless searches of a cell phone during an arrest."