The Ninth Circuit on Monday signaled it will likely allow federal prosecutors to use a San Francisco man’s cellphone-location data to prosecute him for the drive-by slaying of his young sister’s pimp.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Ralph Reed and his Faith and Freedom Coalition of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by bombarding thousands of people’s cellphones with spam messages without consent.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Saturday that Google does not violate Illinois privacy laws by automatically creating a face template when Android users upload photos taken on their smartphone to the company’s cloud-based photo service.
Read moreA lawyer for New York City resisted pressure from a judge Tuesday to confirm or deny that the NYPD targeted protesters with cellphone-surveillance technology.
Read moreA Connecticut man who warned motorists about “cops ahead” with a hand-drawn sign brought a federal complaint Monday to protest his arrest.
Read moreA college student sued Georgia Senator David Perdue for civil battery Monday, claiming he heavy-handedly snatched the student’s cellphone away during an event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp.
Read moreGoogle is appealing a record $5 billion antitrust fine by European Union authorities, who say the tech giant abused the dominance of its Android operating system to stifle competitors.
Read moreThree concerned citizens could not stop President Donald Trump from testing out an emergency text alert that popped up on hundreds of millions of cellphones Wednesday afternoon.
Read moreA federal judge refused Monday to dismiss a claim that Apple willfully infringed six Corephotonics patents on “dual camera technologies for mobile devices.”
Read moreStealing a phone may not be a particularly serious crime, but the European Court of Justice concluded Tuesday that gathering certain telecom data about the thief likewise is not too serious a breach of privacy.
Read moreMPH Technologies Oy, of Finland, accused Apple in a federal complaint of violating eight of its patents on secure messaging.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit on Wednesday was asked to decide whether police violated the rights of a man who later pleaded guilty to a child pornography charge by using an overly broad warrant to search his cellphone and house.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that selling consumers SIM cards with preloaded and preactived services that can charge them fees is an unfair commercial practice when the buyers are not told of these fees and services in advance.
Read moreA class action privacy lawsuit against Google was filed in federal court in San Francisco Friday, claiming that the technology giant continued to track the location of cell phone users after they turned off tracking.
Read moreIn the first known case of its kind, U.S. drug agents supplied unwitting cocaine-trafficking suspects in California with smartphones they thought were encrypted but had been rigged to allow eavesdropping, Human Rights Watch reported Friday.
Read moreWarrantless cellphone searches by Customs and Border Patrol agents at the northern and southern borders of the United States have exploded a long-brewing constitutional crisis, a panel of legal experts told a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee Wednesday.
Read moreThe National Security Agency said Thursday it is deleting call records after “irregularities” caused it to collect records it was not authorized to receive.
Read moreWith Chief Justice John Roberts leading the majority, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Friday that Americans have reasonable privacy expectations in their cellphone location data.
Read moreTwo phone companies, Wind Tre and Vodafone Italia, should not face fines in Italy over their failure to inform consumers that the SIM cards they were selling had been preloaded with voicemail and internet services, a magistrate with Europe’s highest court recommended Thursday.
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