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Beyond The Schoolhouse Gates: The Unprecedented Expansion Of School Surveillance Authority Under Cyberbulling Laws, Emily Suski
Beyond The Schoolhouse Gates: The Unprecedented Expansion Of School Surveillance Authority Under Cyberbulling Laws, Emily Suski
Faculty Publications
For several years, states have grappled with the problem of cyberbullying and its sometimes devastating effects. Because cyberbullying often occurs between students, most states have understandably looked to schools to help address the problem. To that end, schools in forty-six states have the authority to intervene when students engage in cyberbullying. This solution seems all to the good unless a close examination of the cyberbullying laws and their implications is made. This Article explores some of the problematic implications of the cyberbullying laws. More specifically, it focuses on how the cyberbullying laws allow schools unprecedented surveillance authority over students. This …
Yale Symposium: Unpacking Nsa's Global Problem, Peter Margulies
Yale Symposium: Unpacking Nsa's Global Problem, Peter Margulies
Law Faculty Scholarship
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Cause To Believe What? The Importance Of Defining A Search's Object--Or, How The Aba Would Analyze The Nsa Metadata Surveillance Program, Christopher Slobogin
Cause To Believe What? The Importance Of Defining A Search's Object--Or, How The Aba Would Analyze The Nsa Metadata Surveillance Program, Christopher Slobogin
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Courts and scholars have devoted considerable attention to the definition of probable cause and reasonable suspicion. Since the demise of the mere evidence rule in the 1960s, however, they have rarely examined how these central Fourth Amendment concepts interact with the object of the search. That is unfortunate, because this interaction can have significant consequences. For instance, probable cause to believe that a search might lead to evidence of wrongdoing triggers a very different inquiry than probable cause to believe that a search will produce evidence of criminal activity. The failure to address the constraints that should be imposed on …
Bulk Metadata Collection: Statutory And Constitutional Considerations, Laura K. Donohue
Bulk Metadata Collection: Statutory And Constitutional Considerations, Laura K. Donohue
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephony metadata runs contrary to Congress’s intent in enacting the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The program also violates the statute in three ways: the requirement that records sought be “relevant to an authorized investigation;” the requirement that information could be obtained via subpoena duces tecum; and the steps required for use of pen registers and trap and trace devices. Additionally, the program gives rise to serious constitutional concerns. Efforts by the government to save the program on grounds of third party doctrine are unpersuasive in light of the unique circumstances of …