The California Supreme Court made a controversial 5-2 ruling yesterday allowing police to search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant. This finding is said to be in line with decisions made in the 1970s that items on an arrestee's person during an arrest, such as cigarettes or a wallet, can be seized and later examined without a warrant. more ›

Despite efforts to get it removed from the internet, Yahoo!'s 2006 "Law Enforcement Investigators Guide" details the various fees that government and police officers would need to pay in order to obtain information on a user -- like access to someone's email account, which would run them $30-$40 -- and how to go about requesting it. The guide also details what kind of information is kept on users through services like Yahoo! Groups, Chat, and Flickr, and how long such information is retained. more ›

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker will hold a hearing on September 1 regarding the federal government's illegal wiretapping of former charity, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation of Ashland, Oregon, in 2004. The charity has presented public documents that show that agents eavesdropped on phone calls without a warrant, which violated the federal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA. more ›