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US v. Jones - old

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US v. Jones - old

Updates

  • Deeplinks Blog by Hanni Fakhoury | May 4, 2012

    DOJ Official: Any Privacy Protection is Too Much Privacy Protection for Cell Phone Tracking

    Jason Weinstein, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice's criminal division, told a panel at the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee's "State of the Mobile Net" conference yesterday that requiring a search warrant to obtain location tracking information from cell phones would "cripple" prosecutors...

    • Read more about DOJ Official: Any Privacy Protection is Too Much Privacy Protection for Cell Phone Tracking
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    Deeplinks Blog by Hanni Fakhoury | March 13, 2012

    Supreme Court Decision on GPS Surveillance Sparking Good Court Rulings

    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling that warrantless installation of GPS devices violates the Fourth Amendment – United States v. Jones (PDF) – is already percolating through the court system, which is good news for our privacy rights. Today, in a two sentence order (PDF), the Ohio Supreme...

    • Read more about Supreme Court Decision on GPS Surveillance Sparking Good Court Rulings
  • Press Release | January 23, 2012

    Unanimous Supreme Court Ensures Americans Have Protections from GPS Surveillance

    San Francisco - In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed that Americans have constitutional protections against GPS surveillance by law enforcement, holding in U.S. v. Jones that GPS tracking is a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.
    In Jones, FBI agents planted a GPS device on a...

    • Read more about Unanimous Supreme Court Ensures Americans Have Protections from GPS Surveillance
  • Press Release | October 3, 2011

    GPS Inventor Joins EFF in Fight Against Warrantless GPS Tracking

    Washington, D.C. - The principal inventor of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other leading technologists have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in urging the U.S Supreme Court to block the government from using GPS tracking without first getting a warrant, arguing that the massive collection of sensitive location...

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    Deeplinks Blog | September 10, 2011

    FOIA Victory Will Shed More Light on Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones

    The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday (pdf) that the government must turn over information from criminal prosecutions in which federal law enforcement agencies obtained cell-site location information without a warrant. The suit, filed as part of EFF’s FLAG Project and in conjunction with the ...

    • Read more about FOIA Victory Will Shed More Light on Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones

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Legal Documents

  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of EFF, CDT and Technical Experts in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of Fourth Amendment Historians in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of Gun Owners of America et al. in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the ACLU and ACLU of the Nation's Capital in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the Cato Institute in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the Constitution Project in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the Council on American Islamic Relations in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the Electronic Privacy Information Center et al. in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers et al. in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the Owner-Operator Indepedent Drivers Association in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the Rutherford Institute and National Motorists Association in Support of Jones
  • October 3, 2011
    Amicus Brief of Yale Law School Information Society Project Scholars et al. in Support of Jones
  • September 26, 2011
    Supreme Court Brief for Antoine Jones
  • August 18, 2011
    Amicus Brief of the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law in Support of the United States
  • August 11, 2011
    Supreme Court Brief for the United States
  • June 27, 2011
    Supreme Court Grant of Certiorari
  • June 8, 2011
    Jones Opposition to Government Petition to the Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari
  • April 15, 2011
    Government Petition to the Supreme Court for a Writ of Certiorari
  • November 19, 2010
    Order Denying En Banc Rehearing
  • October 6, 2010
    Jones Opposition to Government's Petition for Rehearing En Banc
  • September 20, 2010
    Government Petition for Rehearing En Banc
  • August 6, 2010
    D.C. Circuit Order Rejecting Warrantless GPS Tracking
  • March 3, 2009
    EFF's Amicus Brief in the D.C. Circuit

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