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Big FREEDOM! Stuff => Current Events => Topic started by: Magnaniman on May 02, 2016, 08:42:44 PM

Title: Meanwhile, while everyone is arguing about bathrooms...
Post by: Magnaniman on May 02, 2016, 08:42:44 PM
The Supreme Court has ruled that federal courts may now issue warrants for computer data outside of their jurisdiction and that encrypting data is now included as probable cause for a search.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/04/rule-41-little-known-committee-proposes-grant-new-hacking-powers-government
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36169019
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/02/19/google_says_proposed_doj_rule_41_revision_is_monumental_fourth_amendment.html

Congress now stands as the only obstacle to this policy change, which only requires them to take no action for it to go into effect.
Title: Re: Meanwhile, while everyone is arguing about bathrooms...
Post by: Slow poke on May 06, 2016, 03:10:57 PM
Scary
Title: Re: Meanwhile, while everyone is arguing about bathrooms...
Post by: phreaky on May 25, 2016, 12:16:15 PM
Wow so that means nothing is safe for us anywhere well god bless the U as of A
Title: Re: Meanwhile, while everyone is arguing about bathrooms...
Post by: roarde on May 25, 2016, 01:10:48 PM
I missed the part where encryption could sometimes become the cause for search. Could you point it out, please?

What I did see was where anonymization/VPN/Tor would be a trigger for application of this procedural amendment.
Title: Re: Meanwhile, while everyone is arguing about bathrooms...
Post by: doubleplusgood on May 25, 2016, 03:44:58 PM
Quote from: roarde on May 25, 2016, 01:10:48 PM
I missed the part where encryption could sometimes become the cause for search. Could you point it out, please?

What I did see was where anonymization/VPN/Tor would be a trigger for application of this procedural amendment.
If VPN use could trigger the use, then I'll don't see much use for paying PIA any more past December