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December 20th
- Congress is abandoning the 5th amendment (Article)
November 26th
- Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of Illinois police (Article)
November 15th
- Obama secretly signed a cybersecurity directive (Article)
November 6th
- President Obama is reelected to office
October 26th
- The FISA amendments allowing for warrantless wiretapping have gone before the Supreme Court (Article)
October 11th
- Activist is jailed without charge for remaining silent during a grand jury (Article)
October 9th
- The Supreme Court declined to hear a telecom privacy invasion lawsuit due to a retroactive protection law passed by Congress in 2008 (Article)
October 3rd
- The Federal Appeals Court stayed the injunction on the NDAA's indefinite detention clause. (Article)
- A Senate panel found anti-terror data-sharing centers are useless (Article)
August 16th
- US Court upholds patent law allowing "isolated" genes to be patented. (Article)
August 15th
- The US Circuit Court of Appeals in United States vs. Skinner declared that tracking via cell phone GPS falls under "stored communications" and doesn't require a warrant. (Article)
July 19th
- S.3414 Introduced (govtrack Text)
- This is a new less destructive form of CISPA, but it still requires work to become an acceptable bill. More about it by the EFF.
- August 2nd Failed Cloture
June 8th
- A US Judge shot down a case between Apple and Google calling the US patent system "dysfunctional" (Article)