US intelligence agencies won’t harvest US residents’ geolocation data in future investigations, revealed the US government this month.
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Supreme Court won’t consider case against defamatory reviews on Yelp
The decision means Yelp, and other platforms, are still protected from liability for user-submitted content under the CDA’s Section 230.
Supreme Court refuses to hear Fiat Chrysler appeal in Jeep hacking case
The court’s action means that one of the first legal cases involving cyber security risks in cars will go to trial in October.
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is dictating tweets from prison
The family of “Dread Pirate Roberts” got him an account and is typing in, word for word, his tweets, including his hope for Trump’s clemency.
US authorities now need warrant for your cellphone location data
Privacy activists scored a legal victory this week after the Supreme Court ruled it unlawful for law enforcement and federal agencies to access cellphone location records without a warrant.
Your personal cloud of microbes could one day be used to profile you
Every time we sneeze, cough, scratch, fart, or touch something, we leave behind traces of ourselves. Could this microbial evidence one day be used to identify and surveil us?
Judge overturns conviction of Goldman Sachs programmer for stealing code
Sergey Aleynikov has long claimed that the code was open source and that he never shared it with anybody. Did he get off on a technicality? 
Violent Facebook threats conviction thrown out by US Supreme Court
It’s not enough that ordinary people would find murderous rants threatening, the court said. Rather, courts have to consider frame of mind.
Police can access phone location data without a warrant, US court rules
The decision leaves the country stuck with a mishmash of laws and privacy advocates who hope that the Supreme Court takes on the issue.
GPS tracking counts as a “search”, says US Supreme Court
The court sided with an offender who argued that being forced to wear a location monitor for the rest of his life is unconstitutional.