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A Day in the Life of a Smart-City Commuter

This morning your smart phone alarm went off 10 minutes earlier than usual. The alarm is tailored to your morning routine, which is monitored by your smart watch. It takes into account the weather forecast, the day of the week, as well as the fact that you went to bed late last night. Your phone buzzes again – it’s time to leave, if you want to catch the bus.

Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Stop Warrantless Cell Phone Searches at the Border

(ANTIMEDIA) In the waning years of the Obama administration, Customs and Border Protection agents had a bad habit of conducting warrantless searches of cellphones and laptops. Documents released to the American Civil Liberties Union under Freedom of Information Act requests revealed that Border Patrol agents searched over 6,500 people from October 2008 to June 2010.

Judge Rules in Favor of Privacy on Fingerprint-Locked Phones

(ANTIMEDIA) Chicago, IL — Congratulations, friend. You are now slightly more free thanks to a recent ruling by a federal judge in Chicago. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), the nation’s top law enforcement agency, previously filed a warrant to search the home of a man believed to be trafficking child pornography. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Weisman denied the request based on a lack of evidence to justify to the privacy intrusion.