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Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital Device Fishing Expeditions

When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone—from family photos to communications with your doctor to everywhere you’ve been since you first started using the phone—in other words, data that is in no way connected to the crime they’re...
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Victory! Ninth Circuit Limits Intrusive DMCA Subpoenas

The Ninth Circuit upheld an important limitation on Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) subpoenas that other federal courts have recognized for more than two decades. The DMCA, a misguided anti-piracy law passed in the late nineties, created a bevy of powerful tools, ostensibly to help copyright holders fight online infringement...
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From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internet

If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming enacted laws requiring...

New Documents Show First Trump DOJ Worked With Congress to Amend Section 230

In the wake of rolling out its own proposal to significantly limit a key law protecting internet users’ speech in the summer of 2020, the Department of Justice under the first Trump administration actively worked with lawmakers to support further efforts to stifle online speech.The new documents, disclosed in...

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