Tag: 4th amendment
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#MorningMonarchy: October 6, 2026
Smart glasses, game remakes and nighttime access + this day in history w/peer-reviewed anonymous internet vigilantes and our song of the day by Kuntwork on your #MorningMonarchy for Shocktober 6, 2026.
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#MorningMonarchy: April 17, 2018
Blogger database, power fluctuations and cellular eavesdropping + this day in history w/the return of Apollo 13 and our song of the day by Jorge Elbrecht on your Morning Monarchy for April 17, 2018.
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fbi agents get ‘leeway’ to push privacy bounds
fbi power to snoop expanded (again) from nytimes: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. The F.B.I. soon plans to issue…
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5/19 Newspurge: Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition
Gates says vaccine investment offers best returns // CDC warns public to prepare for ‘zombie apocalypse’ // Supreme Court ok’s warrantless house search // Bidding begins in Unabomber online auction // Lars von Trier announces “I’m a Nazi” at Cannes // Johnny Depp, Queen Elizabeth are cousins
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1/6 defcon: bad calls & fake claims
warrantless cell phone search gets green light in california* voip decision means skype now illegal* first solar eclipse of the year jan4* quadrantid meteor shower due jan4 night* reporter behind wmd claims calls assange ‘bad journalist’* fake white house holiday email is cyber attack*
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Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer-Privacy Ruling
Bowing to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court Monday gutted its own decision that had dramatically narrowed the government’s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age.
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4/23 Newspurge
police state international: combat support battalion deployed to ‘maintain public order’ at boston marathon*animal rights activist on fbi ‘most wanted terrorists’ list*video: cop arrests abc news reporter for filming traffic accident*hr1913: local law enforcement hate crimes prevention act of 2009, the end of free speech?*US security boss clarifies comments about border*illegal immigrants detained, then freed…
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police state int’l: borders, biometrics & stupor bowl security
US/mexico border fence almost completefrom ap: The fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is mostly finished. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling says that 601 miles of the project had been completed as of a week ago. Easterling says 69 miles of the fence still must be built to meet the goal set during the…
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badcops, $oldiers, drugs & crime
2 miami officers charged in fbi corruption probefrom ap: Two veteran police officers were charged Friday with providing protection for purported shipments of cocaine and stolen goods in what was actually an undercover FBI operation. Officer Geovani Nunez and Detective Jorge Hernandez are accused in court documents of helping protect shipments of what they thought…
