Part Four:
Surveillance, Search and Seizure

Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928)

Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967)

United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276 (1983)

United States v. Moran, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54 (N.D.N.Y., Jan. 5, 2005)

Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)

Herring v. United States, 555 U.S. _ (2009)

Jay Stanley and Barry Steinhardt, Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains, The Growth of an American Surveillance Society, ACLU Technology and Liberty Program, January 2003

Frank Baitman, Rethinking Surveillance, Washington Post, February 11, 2008

Spencer S. Hsu, Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S., Washington Post, April 12, 2008

Siobhan Gorman, Satellite-Surveillance Program to Begin Despite Privacy Concerns, Wall Street Journal, October 1, 2008

Robert Pear, Privacy Issue Complicates Push to Link Medical Data, NY Times, January 17, 2009

Jesse McKinley, Marriage Ban Donors Feel Exposed by List, NY Times, January 18, 2009

Thomas Ricker, Video: Hacker War Drives San Franscisco Cloning RFID Passports, Engadget, February 2, 2009

Scott Gilbertson, Google Latitude Broadcasts Your Location, Wired, February 4, 2009. -- RickSchwartz - 04 Feb 2009 (see also: Where Are Your Friends and Family? Check Google Maps

Looking Past the Wall

Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)

Associated Press, Swiss police spy marijuana field with Google Earth, Business Week, January 29, 2009

Cell Phones & GPS

Andrew Brandt, Soon, Your Cell Phone May Be Tracking You, PC World, April 2004

Hiawatha Bray, GPS spying may prove irresistible to police, Boston.com, January 17, 2005

Ryan Singel, U.S. Cell-Phone Tracking Clipped, Wired News, October 28, 2005

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cellphone Tracking Cases (USA v. Pen Register), EFF.org, last updated December 21, 2005

Ellen Nakashima, Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request, The Washington Post, Nov 23, 2007

Adam Sherwin, The Facebook tool which turns your mobile phone into a snoop, Times Online UK, April 1, 2008

John Markoff, Surveillance of Skype messages found in China, International Herald Tribune, October 2, 2008

Flash Mobs

Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody, The Penguin Press, February 2008

Colin Moynihan, City Subpoenas Creator of Text Messaging Code, NY Times, March 30, 2008

Bill Brand, U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt, Oakland Tribune, April 15, 2008

Conduct of Surveillance

Eric Lichtblau, Error Gave F.B.I. Unauthorized Access to E-Mail, New York Times, February 16, 2008

Lara Jakes Jordan, More FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed, The Associated Press, Mar 6, 2008

Ryan Singel, FBI Tried to Cover Patriot Act Abuses With Flawed, Retroactive Subpoenas, Audit Finds, blog.wired.com, March 13, 2008

Lisa Rein, Md. Police Put Activists' Names On Terror Lists, Washington Post, October 8, 2008

Lisa Rein, Police Listed Gay Rights Group Among Terrorists, Washington Post, January 23, 2009

Brian Ross, Vic Walter, and Anna Schecter, Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans: U.S. Officers' "Phone Sex" Intercepted, Recorded, Shared Across NSA Listening Post, ABC News, October 9, 2008

Data Mining & Data Selling

Arthur R. Miller, The National Data Center And Personal Privacy, The Atlantic, Nov, 1967

Declan McCullagh, Perspective: the flip side of database snooping, C|Net News.com, February 7, 2005

Tom Owad, Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists, Applefritter.com, January 4, 2006

John Aravosis, AMERICAblog just bought General Wesley Clark's cell phone records for $89.95, AMERICAblog, January 12, 2006

Steve Boggan Q. What could a boarding pass tell an identity fraudster about you? A. Way too much, The Guardian, May 3, 2006

Reuters, Agencies probing sales of cell phone data, C|Net News.com, January 14, 2006

Michael Barbaro and Tom Zeller Jr, A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749, NY Times, Aug 9, 2006

Eric Bangeman, AOL data leak may give data retention bill new life, Ars Technica, Aug 13, 2006

Ryan Singel, FBI Mined Grocery Store Records to Find Iranian Terrorists, CQ Reports, Wired, November 06, 2007

Chris Soghoian, Did credit card companies collaborate with the FBI's grocery data mining program?, CNet, November 7, 2007

Juan Carlos Perez, Facebook's Beacon More Intrusive Than Previously Thought, PC World, Nov 30, 2007

Associated Press, Google to Store Patients' Health Records, New York Times, Feb 21, 2008 (to learn more about HIPPA, see US Department of Health and Human Services)

Eric Pfanner, Internet providers get a piece of ad income, International Herald Tribune, Feb 17, 2008, "This is taking targeting to the next level"

Louise Story, To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You, NY Times, March 10, 2008

Jonathan Richards, CIA enlists Google's help for spy work, Times Online UK, March 31, 2008

Jacqui Cheng, Web surfers know advertisers are watching—and don’t like it, Ars Technica, March 31, 2008

Peter Whoriskey, Every Click You Make, Washington Post, April 4, 2008

Saul Hansell, Ad Industry Bans Targeting People With Cancer; Ads to Widows and Orphans Allowed, NY Times, April 10, 2008

Cade Metz, American ISPs already sharing data with outside ad firms, The Register, April 10, 2008, "We require our ISPs to give notice to the user directly, and we also allow for an opt-out"

Stephen Baker, The Numerati, BusinessWeek, August 28, 2008, "By building mathematical models of its own employees, IBM aims to improve productivity and automate management"

Declan McCullagh, Government report: Data mining doesn't work well, CNet News, October 7, 2008

Brad Stone, U.S. banks mine data and pitch to troubled borrowers, International Herald Tribune, October 22, 2008

Ron Lieber, A (Very) Watchful Eye on Credit Card Spending, NY Times, January 30, 2009.

Data may be immortal, but that doesn't mean we can't try to drown the signal in noise, TrackMeNot Extension for Firefox. -- RickSchwartz - 01 Feb 2009

RFID

Beth Bacheldor, RFID Takes Root in Bangladesh, RFID Journal, Jan. 15, 2008

Declan McCullagh, RFID Tags: Big Brother in small packages, C|Net News.com, January 13, 2003

Kim Zetter, School RFID Plan Gets an F, Wired News, Feb. 10, 2005

Jim Rapoza, Security Getting Trampled in the Rush to RFID, eWeek.com, Mar. 7, 2005

Jacqueline Emigh, Homeland Security Officials Refute RFID Reports, CIO Insight, Mar. 17, 2005

Jacqueline Emigh, RSA Finds More Flaws in RFID, eWeek.com, Mar. 23, 2005

Mark Baard, RFID Cards Get Spin Treatment, Wired News, Mar. 29, 2005

RFIDUpdate.com, RFID Tattoos to Make a Mark on Cattle Tagging, RFIDUpdate.com, Feb. 11, 2008

Steve Boggan Cracked it!, The Guardian, Nov 17, 2006

Sharon Gaudin, RFID tech turned into spy chips for clandestine surveillance, Computerworld, March 20, 2008

Mark Mayne, RFID hacks defeat new UK passport security, SC Magazine UK, Apr 23, 2008

Dan Goodin, (USA) Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree, The Register, February 2, 2009

Declan McCullagh & Elinor Mills, Feds take porn fight to Google, C|Net News.com, January 19, 2006

Declan McCullagh, FAQ: What does the Google subpoena mean?, C|Net News.com, January 20, 2006

Reuters, Privacy experts condemn Google subpoena, C|Net News.com, January 20, 2006

Katie Hafner & Matt Richtel, Google Resists U.S. Subpoena of Search Data, New York Times, January 20, 2006

Katie Hafner, After Subpoenas, Internet Searches Give Some Pause, January 25, 2006

Constant Brand, EU Report Urges Search Data Deletion, The Associated Press, April 9, 2008

Background

James Risen & Eric Lichtblau, Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits on Spying in U.S. After 9/11, Officials Say, New York Times, December 15, 2005

Dan Eggen, Bush Authorized Domestic Spying, Washington Post, December 16, 2005

Kelli Arena, Bush says he signed NSA wiretap order, CNN.com, December 17, 2005

CBS/AP, Bush Defends Domestic Spying, CBS News, January 1, 2006

Terry Frieden, Gonzales to testify on domestic spying, CNN.com, January 13, 2006

ACLU, ACLU Sues to Stop Illegal Spying on Americans, Saying President Is Not Above the Law, ACLU.org, January 17, 2006

Center for Constitutional Rights, CCR Files Suit over NSA Domestic Spying Program, CCR-NY.org, January 17, 2006 (Press release appears to have vanished from the CCR site, but all documents from the case are here.)

Legal Documents

Asst. Attorney General William E. Moschella, DOJ Letter on Legal Authority for NSA Surveillance, December 22, 2005

Elizabeth B. Bazan & Jennifer K. Elsea, Presidential Authority to Conduct Warrantless Electronic Surveillance to Gather Foreign Intelligence Information, Congressional Research Service, January 5, 2006

Law Professors and Former Government Officials, A Response to the Justice Department's Letter of December 22, 2005, January 9, 2006

ACLU, NSA Spying Complaint, January 17, 2006

CCR, NSA Complaint, January 17, 2006

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Legal Authorities Supporting the Activities of the National Security Agency Described by the President, DOJ White Paper, January 19, 2006

James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, Intelligence Court Rules Wiretapping Power Legal, NY Times, January 15, 2009

Kim Zetter, NSA Whistleblower: Wiretaps Were Combined with Credit Card Records of U.S. Citizens, Wired, January 23, 2009

NSA Surveillance Hearings

Eric Lichtblau, Top Aide Defends Domestic Spying, New York Times, February 7, 2006

Sen. Patrick Leahy, Statement, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the NSA's Surveillance Authority, February 6, 2006

Alberto Gonzales, Prepared Testimony, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the NSA's Surveillance Authority, February 6, 2006

Alberto Gonzales, Response to Questions from Chairman Specter, , February 6, 2006

A full transcript of the hearing is available here: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV.

Paul Kane, Senate Authorizes Broad Expansion Of Surveillance Act, Washington Post, February 13, 2008

Greek Cell Phone Tapping

James Kanter, Greek cellphones tapped, International Herald Tribune, February 3, 2006

''Big Brother'' Wiretapped Greek Prime Minister’s Phone, Greek News, February 6, 2006

Traffic Cameras

"Although charges are only in force at peak times, the system runs 24 hours a day" (See "Met given real time c-charge data" story below)

Mark Townsend & Paul Harris, Security role for traffic cameras, Guardian, February 9, 2003

Lester Haines, When is a speed camera not a speed camera?, The Register, November 10, 2003

Lester Haines, Speed camera clocks motorist at 406 mph, The Register, January 21, 2004

County's speed cameras set alight, BBC News, February 10, 2006

New cameras to 'cut road deaths', BBC News, February 13, 2006

Egan Orion, Secret pact allows the US to spy on UK motorists, The Inquirer, April 21, 2008

Met given real time c-charge data, BBC News, July 17, 2008

Photo Ticket Cameras to Track Drivers Nationwide, TheNewspaper.com, September 16, 2008

Ben Webster, Drivers will have no escape from new speed cameras, Times Online, October 9, 2008

Jon Nielsen, Duncanville council member wants to re-evaluate red-light camera policy, The Dallas Morning News, February 2, 2009

Facial Recognition Technology

James Randerson, Face recognition technique aids security - and lookalike searches, The Guardian, January 26, 2008

Airports trial facial recognition, BBC News, April 25, 2008 "Tougher checks do take time, but we don't want long waits"

Christopher Hope, Mug shots at the touch of a button for police, Telegraph.co.uk, March 20, 2008 "...could allow CCTV cameras to trigger an alert when they film a known criminal"

Online Dating and Social Networking

Melody Joy Kramer, Forfeiting privacy, one post at a time, Daily Pennsylvanian.com, November 30, 2005

Jessi Hempel with Paula Lehman, The MySpace Generation, Business Week, December 12, 2005

Kristi Eaton, Social sites spark privacy concerns, ASU Web Devil, January 18, 2006

Nate Anderson, Google + Facebook + alcohol = trouble, Ars Technica, January 19, 2006

Rob Stafford, Why parents must mind MySpace, NBC Dateline, January 27, 2006

CBS, MySpace: Your Kids' Danger?, CBS Evening News, February 6, 2006

Lizette Alvarez, (Name Here) Is a Liar and a Cheat, New York Times, February 16, 2006

Maria Aspan, How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free, New York Times, February 11, 2008.

Phil Bradley, Spokeo, the Big Brother of social networking, pandia.com, February 25, 2008.

One-in-Five Employers Use Social Networking Sites to Research Job Candidates, CareerBuilder.com Survey Finds, CareerBuilder? .com, September 10, 2008.

Emma Fitzsimmons and Bonnie Rubin, Social-networking sites viewed by admissions officers, Chicago Tribune, September 20, 2008.

Border Searches

Ellen Nakashima, Clarity Sought on Electronics Searches, Washington Post, February 7, 2008

Helene Cooper and Michael N. Grynbaum, Passport Files of Three Candidates Breached, NY Times, March 21, 2008

Chloe Albanesius, Judge: Customs May Search Laptops Without Warrants, PC Magazine, April 23, 2008

DNA Collection and Database Building

Eileen Sullivan, Feds to Collect DNA from Everyone they Arrest, Associated Press, April 16, 2008

BBc News, DNA database 'breach of rights, BBC News, Dec 4, 2008