David Edelstein is an AV® Peer Review Rated criminal defense attorney
representing clients in state and federal criminal matters across the State of Florida.

Attorney General Eric Holder became the White House’s highest ranking official Tuesday to support sweeping privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud. Read more..

You might have thought John E. Brennan’s troubles were history after a judge last year acquitted him of wrongdoing for stripping at Portland International Airport to protest what he saw as ridiculously invasive security measures. Read more..

A federal court in Arizona has denied a motion to suppress evidence gathered by “StingRay” surveillance technology. The court in United States v. Rigmaiden held that investigators did not violate the Fourth Amendment. The court also held that the government’s use of a cell site simulator or StingRay device was supported by a “mobile tracking [...]

Privacy experts and attorneys urged Congress to update laws governing protections for wireless customers’ location data in criminal investigations Thursday, testifying on Capitol Hill that there is confusion among federal courts and other practical difficulties. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security is looking to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Read [...]

Yesterday, in a disturbing report published on CNET, new documents obtained by EPIC reveal that Obama administration officials have authorized a new government program involving the interception of communications on Internet service providers, including AT&T, one of the key players in the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. Read more..

A measure that would require law enforcement to get a warrant to read citizens’ emails regardless of their age or whether they have been opened passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a voice vote Thursday.. Read more..

A legal fight over the government’s use of a secret surveillance tool has provided new insight into how the controversial tool works and the extent to which Verizon Wireless aided federal agents in using it to track a suspect. Read more…

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Washington State Supreme Court Monday to recognize that text messages are “the 21st Century phone call” and require that law enforcement officers obtain a warrant before reading texts on someone’s phone. Read more…

The government’s use of a secret spy tool was on trial on Thursday in a showdown between an accused identity thief and more than a dozen federal lawyers and law enforcement agents who were fighting to ensure that evidence obtained … Read more…

From CNN.com: The study’s authors said keeping data anonymous is not necessarily enough to ensure real privacy. “A simply anonymized dataset does not contain name, home address, phone number or other obvious identifier,” they wrote. “Yet, if individual’s patterns are… Read more…