Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment

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Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment

19 July 2022

American taxpayers pay to be spied upon. That's one takeaway from new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has been examining how federal agents spent millions to purchase massive troves of cellphone location data and dodge Fourth Amendment requirements. As part of a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the ACLU obtained thousands of previously unreleased records showing how DHS agencies—including Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—are purchasing and accessing "huge volumes of people's cell phone location information quietly extracted from smartphone apps." These agencies are "sidestepping our Fourth ...

Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment

Federal agencies have spent millions to buy cellphone location data and dodge Fourth Amendment requirements.

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https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-Fourth-Amendment-Is-Not-For-Sale-Act-of-2021-Bill-Text.pdf

 

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Thanks To ACLU FOIA Requests, We Now Have More Details On The DHS’s Warrantless Acquisition Of Location Data

25 July 2022

Four years ago, the Supreme Court took a long look at the wealth of data generated by cell phones and made a good call. It said warrantless access to months of cell site location data was an unreasonable search. If cops wanted weeks or months of cell site location info, they’d need a warrant going forward. But the holding was case-specific. While other courts have read the Supreme Court decision to have altered the contours of the Third Party Doctrine, the SCOTUS ruling limited itself to historical collections. It did not address near real-time collection via tower dumps, ping orders, ...

Thanks To ACLU FOIA Requests, We Now Have More Details On The DHS’s Warrantless Acquisition Of Location Data

Four years ago, the Supreme Court took a long look at the wealth of data generated by cell phones and made a good call. It said warrantless access to months of cell site location data was an unreas…

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