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Edit this section December 20^th

• Congress is abandoning the 5th amendment (Article)

November 26^th

• Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of Illinois police (Article)

November 15^th

• Obama secretly signed a cybersecurity directive (Article)

November 6^th

• President Obama is reelected to office

October 26^th

• The FISA amendments allowing for warrantless wiretapping have gone before the Supreme Court (Article)

October 11^th

• Activist is jailed without charge for remaining silent during a grand jury (Article)

October 9^th

• The Supreme Court declined to hear a telecom privacy invasion lawsuit due to a retroactive protection law passed by Congress in 2008 (Article)

October 3^rd

• 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 16^th

• US Court upholds patent law allowing "isolated" genes to be patented. (Article)

August 15^th

• 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 19^th

• 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 2^nd Failed Cloture

June 8^th

• A US Judge shot down a case between Apple and Google calling the US patent system "dysfunctional" (Article)