The battle over birthright citizenship is a battle over its exceptions. The 14th Amendment’s first sentence proudly proclaims that “[a]ll persons born . . . in the United States, and subject to the ...

A bipartisan bill would force the FBI to get a warrant to read Americans’ messages and ban the federal purchase of commercial data on US residents ahead of a critical April deadline.

Cell phone tracking data is often presented as evidence in murder cases in El Paso, but what is the law to protect a citizens' right to privacy?

The lawsuit challenges a large-scale immigration raid that swept up hundreds of Latino community members— including U.S. citizens and children — during a search tied to alleged gambling.

Like your phone, a drone can record everything. The question in Hawaiʻi courts is simple. Was that footage captured legally?

Eight Republican-appointed judges in the Ninth Circuit criticized a decision not to revisit a ruling which removed the grant of qualified immunity for police officers based on the “hot pursuit” ...

Iowa House advances ‘Katie’s Law’ requiring DNA collection after certain arrests ...

Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on the history of the NSA and mass surveillance in America, and why Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon should worry us.

President George W. Bush nominee claimed "heckler's veto doctrine" doesn't exist, told jury that censorship motivated by ...

State senators have given preliminary approval to what proponents are calling the first-ever guardrails on the use of ...

Concerns about Flock cameras and mass surveillance arise in Denver and Chaffee County, leading to new legislation and privacy ...