Constitutional Law
Sep. 11, 2015
California's secret law
California's own state court have secretly narrowed privacy guarrantees under the California Constitution.
Jonathan Mayer
Stanford Center for International Security and CooperationEmail: jmayer@stanford.edu
A government investigator presents an electronic surveillance application, in secret. A court controversially interprets the applicable privacy protections, in secret. The order is approved.
I'm not talking about the infamous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorized bulk surveillance of ordinary Americans. I'm not even talking about the federal courts, many of which have permitted warrantless cellphone tracking. I'm talking ...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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