CCIA’s Director of the Litigation Center Burke Kappler examines a recent Supreme Court ruling that expands our #Privacy rights in the digital age. #SCOTUS’ ruling in Chatrie v. United States is a significant win for digital privacy, reaffirming that handing information to a tech company for one purpose does not mean handing it to the government for another. https://ccianet.org/articles/the-supreme-court-expands-privacy-rights-to-more-squarely-encompass-your-digital-footprint/

#SupremeCourt allows #Texas to require #AgeVerification for mobile apps

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/06/politics/supreme-court-allows-texas-to-require-age-verification-for-mobile-apps

#privacy #SCOTUS #politics

The Supreme Court is letting Texas enforce its App Store Accountability Act. Under-18s need a parent's OK to download any app. To spot minors, though, Apple and Google must age-verify everyone. Like carding every customer at the bookstore door, a judge said.

#SCOTUS #ageverification #indigoprivacy

Today, in lieu of scheduled celebrations of a US that is held hostage by forces bent on dismantling democracy, I am re-posting an essay I wrote in September 2024, prior to the last election, about the considerable repair work that American democracy needs to protect itself from tyrants.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2024/09/repairing-democracy.html

#politics #USPolitics #4th #july4th #FourthOfJuly #US250 #US250th #Democracy #Freedom #Constitution #SCOTUS #ElectoralCollege #Gerrymandering #voting #impeachment #CitizensUnited #Rights #Corporations #Marriage #Abortion #Pardons #DEI #Religion

The latest from Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent.

See more from Loon Star State: https://www.texasobserver.org/topics/loon-star-state/

#comics #racism #SCOTUS #voting

Alt...

A burly Ku Klux Klan member in white robes with the signature red cross sits atop a heap of dirt marked The South, holding a noose in one hand and a copy of the Louisiana v. Callais decision of the United States Supreme Court. Next to him is a small crow, wearing a MAGA-red hat that's labelled "Jim." In big, evocative letters, the Klan member declares, "I'm Back Baby!!"

This is a privacy victory. It deserves to be celebrated. The Supreme Court ruled that geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment, 6–3.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-rules-that-law-enforcements-use-of-geofence-warrant-was-a-search

However, there’s a hidden detail that is worth flagging. And it’s not good.

This ruling arose from Chatrie v United States. Google gave generic cell phone records to the cops. No specificity means unconstitutional. Maybe.

The federal judge on the case agreed that it was unconstitutional. But she allowed evidence from the violation to be used anyway. Why? She cited that “even if there had been a violation of the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement officials had acted in good faith.”

In. Good. Faith.

This translates to “cops can violate the constitution if we believe their intentions are good.”

How many cops do you know who act in good faith?

#FourthAmendment #4thAmendment #Privacy #BigTech #SCOTUS #ChatrieVUnitedStates #Constitution #AbolishThePolice

#SupremeCourt ruling guts government’s use of #geofence warrants

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/supreme-court-ruling-guts-governments-use-of-geofence-warrants/

#privacy #surviellance #SCOTUS

YES!!!!!!

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
#SCOTUS Monday declined to take up an appeal from #Trump over a $5 million verdict & finding that he sexually abused & defamed #EJeanCarroll, a decision that means Trump will now HAVE TO PAY the magazine columnist.
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

#RapistInChief #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #defamation

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-supreme-court

It isn't just democracy, voting rights, civil rights and and the Constitution that this Supreme Court is destroying. It's also #science.

#scotus

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-science-tells-us-about-the-health-risks-of-roundup

#SCOTUS struckdown a #Hawaii #law requiring people to get permission to carry #guns into stores & hotels, in its latest opinion backing #2A rights.

The court’s 6-3 decision means people can carry guns onto privately owned property like shopping malls & gas stations, unless the owners specifically say guns are banned at their establishments.

It’s a win for the #Trump admin, which argued the law violates the #SecondAmendment. It’s also a win for #MassShooting planners.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-guns-hawaii-trump-c5dbdf945bc870f70a03455f5eb1dec7

I guess it’s only protected if it’s *their* #religion.

#SCOTUS rules #Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks.

#law #discrimination #FreedomOfReligion
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-prison-dreadlocks-rastafari-louisiana-f9b4d53346daee56335185542db3d4ec

SCOTUS rules that ordinary Americans do NOT owe income tax!

https://youtu.be/bTLYcr-JuDc

SCOTUS just contradicted a century of circuit courts and their malicious rulings subjecting Americans to the income tax. Will anyone notice?

[copypasta]

Dr Champion shows you the astounding words of a recent US Supreme Court decision, in which the Court explains why Americans need not pay income tax! The Court also bitch-slapped half the US Circuit Courts of Appeal in the process. A truly phenomenal decision! (Recorded December 4, 2024.)

[/copypasta]

#Taxes #IncomeTax #IRS #SCOTUS #courts #law #legal #money

The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud

@privacy@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe