{"id":1929,"date":"2009-11-25T13:04:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2009-11-25T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T20:04:56","slug":"i-thought-obama-was-going-to-be-better-than-bush-on-privacy-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/i-thought-obama-was-going-to-be-better-than-bush-on-privacy-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"I thought Obama was going to be better than Bush on privacy issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2009\/11\/obama-wants-computer-privacy-ruling-overturned\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29\" target=\"_blank\">misinformed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government\u2019s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal prosecutors went too far when seizing 104 professional baseball players\u2019 drug results when they had a warrant for just 10.<\/p>\n<p>The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals\u2019 9-2 decision offered Miranda-style guidelines to prosecutors and judges on how to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights while conducting computer searches.<\/p>\n<p>Kagan, appointed solicitor general by President Barack Obama, joined several U.S. attorneys in telling the San Francisco-based court Monday that the guidelines are complicating federal prosecutions in the West. The circuit, the nation\u2019s largest, covers nine states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I was misinformed: The Obama administration is seeking to reverse a federal appeals court decision that dramatically narrows the government\u2019s search-and-seizure powers in the digital age. Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal prosecutors went too far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[84,9,15,13],"tags":[158,98,154,217],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-law","category-technology","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-police","tag-privacy","tag-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-v7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}