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When the “place” to be searched is something as sensitive as a cell phone, courts must ensure warrants rigorously adhere to constitutional probable cause and particularity requirements. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-michigan-supreme-court-cell-phone-search-warrants-must-strictly-follow-fourth
EFF to Michigan Supreme Court: Cell Phone Search Warrants Must Strictly Follow The Fourth Amendment’s Particularity and Probable Cause Requirements

Last week, EFF, along with the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan, ACLU, and ACLU of Michigan, filed an amicus brief in People v. Carson in the Supreme Court of Michigan, challenging the constitutionality of the search warrant of Mr. Carson's smart phone.In this case, Mr. Carson was arrested...

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Jan 26, 2025 at 10:30pmScheduler
Show threadHelgaJan 26, 2025
@eff You think that laws are going to be adhered to going forward? They'll call it terrorism and do what they want.
Show threadCyberFrogJan 26, 2025
@bluetea @eff the whole point of the EFF is to prevent them from doing that, it's literally what they've been doing for like 35 years, most recently they helped win a case which decided that backdoor searches of US citizens data without a warrant are illegal

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/victory-federal-court-finally-rules-backdoor-searches-702-data-unconstitutional
VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional

In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress should uphold its responsibility to protect civil rights and civil liberties by refusing to renew Section 702 absent a number of necessary reforms.

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Show threadHelgaJan 26, 2025
@froge @eff yeah I get that, and respect the EFFs work. What I fear is that we're coming to a point where they're just going to bulldoze through everything. Law will become useless. They literally don't care. In a dictatorship, only the whim of the ruling power matters.
Show threadHelgaJan 26, 2025
@froge @eff (I phrased my original comment poorly, but I won't edit it, for the sake of transparency. )
Here's hoping that broader social respect for the rule of law will actually prevail.
The work the EFF does toward keeping backdoors out of software, transparency from organizations, and so forth, is so absolutely vital. And it's the work they've been doing for the past many years - not just in this moment - that may actually save lives in the coming years.