CDT Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Carpenter v. US

August 17, 2017

• Privacy & Data
• Security & Surveillance

This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in Carpenter v. U.S., a case to determine whether the 4th Amendment requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access location data held by a cell phone company. In this case, the government obtained four months of stored location records with a less protective court order while investigating a robbery.

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Cross-Border Law Enforcement Demands: Analysis of the US Department of Justice’s Proposed Bill

August 17, 2016

• Security & Surveillance

On July 15, the U.S. Department of Justice proposed legislation that would permit foreign governments hand-picked by DOJ to conduct wiretapping in the U.S. for the first time, and to do so without a court order based on probable cause of crime. CDT weighs in.

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