The US Department of Justice’s internal oversight body did not investigate complaints by federal intelligence court judges that government lawyers…
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A Facebook user’s decision to “like” something on the social networking site falls under the protection of the First Amendment,…
The United States’ secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ordered the government to move forward with declassifying documents pertaining to…
The founder and owner of encrypted e-mail site Lavabit, Ladar Levison, has appealed the US government order that shut down…
A federal judge has for the first time ruled that Bitcoin is a legitimate currency, opening up the possibility for…
Chris Carrington Activist Post The German car maker Volkswagen and the French group Thales have blocked a move by researchers…
By NICK DIVITO The Justice Department lost its bid Thursday to delay the ACLU challenge to the National Security Agency’s…
by Eric London The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that New York Times reporter James…
By David Kravets The Obama administration for the first time responded to a Spygate lawsuit, telling a federal judge the…
The Obama administration has renewed the authority for the National Security Agency to regularly collect the phone records of millions…
Chalk one up for privacy, at least in one part of the country. Traffic cameras have been a part of…
A California man facing more than a decade in prison for writing with chalk on public sidewalks has been told…
Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling anti-megabank messages on sidewalks in water-soluble chalk last year…
The New York City Police Department’s latest attempt to fire Adrian Schoolcraft, the whistleblower who secretly recorded evidence of corruption…
By Mike Tolson The long-running battle between federal prosecutors and former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling formally came to an end…
The United States Army private responsible for the biggest intelligence leak in US history will finally be tried in a…
The United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court quietly rubber stamped nearly 2,000 government requests to search or electronically monitor people…
The defense team representing accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has recruited a noted anti-death penalty attorney to assist with…