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A bipartisan bill in a Northwest state could severely hinder the actions of the National Security Agency (NSA), and if it spreads to other states could do even more than that. Under the bill in Washington state, selling anything to ...

Privacy advocates and concerned citizens don’t just have to worry about the National Security Agency (NSA) anymore. Local police are increasingly tracking and gathering data from people’s cellphones in what they say is an effort to fight crime and terrorism. ...

The next time police force you off the road, they may want more than your driver’s license; they may want a sample of your saliva. A practice call “Stop and Swab,” in which law enforcement check points are used to ...

A federal judge handed civil liberties groups a landmark victory Monday, issuing an injunction against the National Security Agency’s phone surveillance program in a scathing ruling that labeled the agency’s actions “almost-Orwellian” and unconstitutional. Under the program, the NSA collects ...

Massachusetts police officers may soon be able to enter homes without a warrant to check on the storage of weapons if one local politician gets his way. Swampscott Selectman Barry Greenfield said that he wants the town to have the ...

Law enforcement agencies will have to get warrants if they want to track vehicles using GPS under a landmark federal court ruling. In the first explicit ruling of its kind, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FBI ...

Wearable video cameras, or body cams, might soon become standard equipment for police on the beat – a possibility that has led to both praise and concern from civil liberties groups. Some local governments are encouraging the use of “on-officer ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is once again coming under fire for possible violation of constitutional rights. New claims have emerged about DHS agents tracking a man, and then searching and seizing his electronic devices along the United States ...

US and British authorities have launched what amounts to a war on reporters who dare to reveal the facts about agencies like the NSA. The main target is The Guardian, the British newspaper that has published many stories based on ...

Do you live in a “Constitution Free Zone?” Millions of Americans live in towns where many of the wise words drafted by the Founding Fathers do not necessarily apply. The areas deemed a Constitution-Free Zone extend 100 miles inland from ...