Rhode Island Bill Would Limit Warrantless Electronic Data Collection and Stingray Surveillance
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Feb. 15, 2024) – A bill introduced in the Rhode Island House would ban the warrantless collection of electronic data and the use of “stingrays” to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications in most situations. The passage of...
Police Circumventing Warrant Requirements By Purchasing Data from Private Vendors
John Adams warned us that if we give government an inch, it will take a mile. “The nature of the encroachment upon the American Constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.” We’ve seen...
Rhode Island Bill Would Limit Warrantless Electronic Data Collection and Stingray Surveillance
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Mar. 1, 2023) – A bill introduced in the Rhode Island Senate would ban the warrantless collection of electronic data and the use of “stingrays” to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications in most situations. The passage of...