surveillance

May 31, 2019

What Was Equilibrium Like?

Do police need a warrant before pretending to be a child to attract would-be molesters? Continue reading

Constitutional law, Criminal Law/Policy

Charter, investigation, privacy, surveillance, undercover police
January 15, 2017

Was Scalia Spooky?

Antonin Scalia’s views on snooping, in the 1970s and later Continue reading

Constitutional law, History

Canada, originalism, privacy, Scalia, surveillance
November 19, 2014

Tell Them Carefully

Cross-border disclosure of wiretaps survives the scrutiny of a (politely) divided Supreme Court. Continue reading

Constitutional law, Criminal Law/Policy

privacy, surveillance, wiretaps
January 7, 2014

New Ideas and Old

Time to emerge from my holiday hibernation. And it seems fitting to start off the new year with some reflections, or at least a re-hash of some reflections, on the subject of social, technological, and legal change. The immediate occasion for doing so is a column by Washington Post’s Robert Samuelson on the widespread outrage Continue reading

New Technologies

internet, NSA, privacy, social media, surveillance