30.01.2015 - 20:32 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

EFF Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief Over Warrantless Searches of Hotel Records

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in a challenge brought by hotel owners against a Los Angeles city ordinance that allows police to access guest registers without consent, warrant, or other legal process. Supporting the hotel owners, EFF argues that people must have the right to challenge surveillance laws like these on Fourth Amendment grounds, even before police have used the law to conduct a suspicionless search.