🎉BREAKING: Apparently, the Tenth Circuit just discovered the Fourth Amendment 📜 exists! Who knew? Meanwhile, protesters everywhere breathe a sigh of relief 😅 as they can finally stop worrying about their devices being treated like piñatas at a surveillance birthday party. 🎈🔍
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support-broad-search-0 #FourthAmendment #TenthCircuit #PrivacyRights #SurveillanceProtests #DigitalFreedom #HackerNews #ngated
Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Victory! #TenthCircuit Finds #FourthAmendment Doesn’t Support Broad #Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

In a big win for protesters’ #rights , the U.S. #CourtofAppeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping #warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.
#protester #privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/victory-tenth-circuit-finds-fourth-amendment-doesnt-support-broad-search-0

Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices and Digital Data

In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data.The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF to Tenth Circuit: Protest-Related Arrests Do Not Justify Dragnet Device and Digital Data Searches

The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, challenges device and data seizures and searches conducted by the Colorado Springs police after a 2021 housing rights march that the police deemed “illegal.” The plaintiffs in the case, Jacqueline Armendariz and a local organization called the Chinook Center, argue these searches violated their civil rights.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Feds Can Film Your Front Porch for 68 Days Without a #Warrant, Says #Court
“Mr. Hay had no reasonable expectation of #privacy in a view of the front of his house,” said the U.S. #TenthCircuit #CourtOfAppeals in its decision on #US vs Hay. “As #videocameras proliferate throughout society, regrettably, the reasonable expectation of privacy from filming is diminished.”
#USvsHay sets a #precedent around how #cameras can be used by #lawenforcement
https://jalopnik.com/feds-can-film-your-front-porch-without-warrant-1851356394 #surveillance
Feds Can Film Your Front Porch for 68 Days Without a Warrant, Says Court

A federal court says your privacy is diminished due to the proliferation of video cameras throughout society.

Jalopnik
Public Defender Richard Federico Confirmed as Judge for Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

Federico becomes the 162nd judge overall to be confirmed since Joe Biden became President.

Critical Report