{"id":450,"date":"2011-09-01T14:20:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2011-09-01T14:20:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T18:20:05","slug":"two-wins-for-privacy-and-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/01\/two-wins-for-privacy-and-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Two wins for privacy and transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York Federal Court <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2011\/08\/judge-says-warrant-required-for-cell-phone-location-data.ars\">ruled<\/a> that the government needs a warrant and to show probable cause in order to get mobile phone location info.\u00a0 Other court rulings have a ruled that a warrant was not required, so this ruling was a most pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Then last Monday, August 26th, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca1.uscourts.gov\/pdf.opinions\/10-1764P-01A.pdf\">ruled<\/a> that Boston Police officers violated Simon Glik&#8217;s\u00a0First and Fourth Amendment rights when they arrested him and seized his mobile phone because he recorded their arrest of another person, and so, they claimed, violated Massachusetts&#8217; anti-wiretapping law.\u00a0 (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universalhub.com\/2011\/court-says-state-law-banning-recording-police-offi\">Universal Hub<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Both rulings are exciting and further support individual privacy and efforts to promote government transparency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York Federal Court ruled that the government needs a warrant and to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-of-speech","category-privacy","category-transparency"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-7g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}