The Ninth Circuit just decided United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing which includes some very important new rules for seizing data on people's computers. Or so I'm told by folks like Scott Greenfield and Orin Kerr, who understand these things far better than me. As I understand the problem Kozinski is trying to solve, the government used to treat a search for anything on … [Read more...] about The Cyber Revolution Reaches the Ninth Circuit
It’s Been A Bad Year
My mother died in April, I moved in with my father for a few months to take care of him until I could find a nursing home, I moved him to the nursing home, I cleaned out his apartment, and I straightened out his finances. Now my father's died too, and I just got back from visiting his brother and sister and taking his ashes back to where he grew up in Kentucky. I guess I … [Read more...] about It’s Been A Bad Year
Scattershot 2009-08-24
Random shots around the web: This could cause a lot of trouble. The war against illegal immigration is apparently as stupid and cruel as the war on drugs. Bobby G. Frederick drinks the TLC kool-aid. So true. I do this, but with a shorter lag. [Thanks, Bobby. The error in your comment has been noted and corrected.] … [Read more...] about Scattershot 2009-08-24
The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Put on Patrol, Version 1.1
Nah. Updating doesn't go quite far enough; I really should eat a little more crow. But just a little. Let's try that again -- and I'm going to leave the original up, for historical purposes. Bloggers -- well, ones who care to do it right -- don't throw errors down the memory hole. Hence, Version 1.1. Let's start off by reviewing the key paragraph in our last episode: On April … [Read more...] about The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Weird Get Put on Patrol, Version 1.1
The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Bumbling Get Put on Patrol
Let's start off by reviewing the key paragraph in our last episode: On April 16 of 2008, Sheriff Bob Fletcher and Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner filed a hundred-page petition (here's Part 1; here's Part 2) with District Judge Joanne Smith, requesting that the judge revoke what they called Wilson's "conceal and carry permit", and documenting, in great detail, each and … [Read more...] about The Smoking Gun, Part II: When the Going Gets Weird, the Bumbling Get Put on Patrol