Meanwhile, while everyone is arguing about bathrooms...

[Magnaniman]

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.

[Slow poke]

Scary

[phreaky]

Wow so that means nothing is safe for us anywhere well god bless the U as of A

[roarde]

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.

[doubleplusgood]

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