Privacy

Policy

How Dharun Ravi's Prosecutors Turned a Minor, Nonviolent Offense Into a Felony Subject to a 10-Year Prison Sentence

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 2:50 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Schools Use GPS Uniforms to Track Students! (Nanny of the Month, April 2012)

Ted Balaker | 5.1.2012 11:09 AM

Politics

Every Move You Make

How new surveillance technologies threaten privacy

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Rick Scott's Thirst for Urine Will Remain Unslaked

Jacob Sullum | 4.27.2012 12:50 PM

Politics

CISPA Passes House With Strong GOP Support

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.26.2012 10:58 PM

Politics

White House Threatens Veto, ACLU Says CISPA Amendments Not Enough

Ed Krayewski | 4.25.2012 5:15 PM

Policy

EU Parliament Approves Data Sharing Deal With U.S.

Ed Krayewski | 4.20.2012 2:07 PM

Politics

Only Latent Criminals Need Fear BusSafe Sweeps

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2012 5:36 PM

Civil Liberties

We'd Like to Take This Opportunity to Congratulate Ourselves for Our Unsubstantiated Role in Ending D.C.'s Most Notorious Traffic-Camera Speedtrap

Nick Gillespie | 4.18.2012 11:39 AM

Politics

Civil Libertarians Launch Campaign Against CISPA

Ed Krayewski | 4.16.2012 2:55 PM

Politics

Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 4:17 PM

Policy

New Telecomm Provider Would Put Privacy First

Ed Krayewski | 4.11.2012 2:50 PM

Politics

Tories Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Internet Surveillance

Jacob Sullum | 4.3.2012 4:00 PM

Politics

ACLU Says Police Often Obtain Cellphone Location Data Without Warrants

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 6:01 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Upholds Pre-Jail Strip Searches for Everyone, No Matter How Minor the Offense

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 4:50 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Will Consider Dogs' Reliability As Probable Cause Generators

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2012 5:26 PM

Policy

Smells Like Multiple Fourth Amendment Violations

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2012 3:17 PM

Politics

Dharun Ravi Found Guilty on Most Charges

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 1:04 PM

Politics

When a Republican President Does It, It's Not Illegal

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2012 1:57 PM

Politics

Illinois Judge Says Eavesdropping Law Is Unconstitutional

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2012 6:13 PM

Politics

Should Police Need a Warrant to Search an Arrestee's Cellphone?

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2012 3:10 PM

Culture

Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Google and Privacy on Cavuto

Reason Staff | 3.2.2012 2:07 PM

Policy

Dharun Ravi's Thought Crimes

The Tyler Clementi case shows how hate crime laws punish opinion.

Jacob Sullum | 2.29.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

No Sex Tape, No Outing in Tyler Clementi Case

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2012 4:31 PM

Nanny State

Target Knows Your Daughter Is Knocked Up: More Upsides to Zero Privacy

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.17.2012 10:46 AM

Nanny State

More Upsides to Zero Privacy: GPS Tracking for Cheaper Insurance

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.9.2012 4:48 PM

Politics

"There have been no good reasons not to televise the Supreme Court."

Damon Root | 2.2.2012 1:34 PM

Policy

What's Going On with Google's New Privacy Policy?

Julie Ershadi | 2.1.2012 3:41 PM

Politics

Federal Jury Says Cops Can't Arrest People for Recording Police Encounters

Jacob Sullum | 1.30.2012 3:56 PM

Politics

How GPS Tracking Threatens Privacy

The Supreme Court considers the 4th Amendment implications of new surveillance technologies.

Jacob Sullum | 1.25.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Sonia Sotomayor's Heartening Defense of Privacy

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2012 3:41 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Rules That GPS Tracking Is a 'Search'

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2012 12:02 PM

Politics

This May Be the Only Time I've Rooted for the DEA

Jacob Sullum | 1.18.2012 1:38 PM

Politics

Franky Gets His Day in Court

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2012 3:23 PM

Politics

Don't Come Sniffing Around Here Unless You Have a Warrant

Jacob Sullum | 1.4.2012 12:48 PM

Policy

Cops Total BMW While Looking for Nonexistent Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 1.2.2012 2:15 PM

Policy

Sir, Your Perfectly Legal Plants Smell Like Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 12.27.2011 5:57 PM

Politics

Not Newt

If you're looking for a profligate authoritarian, Gingrich is your man.

Jacob Sullum | 12.14.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Predator Drones in Domestic Law Enforcement

Brian Doherty | 12.12.2011 8:42 AM

Policy

Florida Drug Search Claims Flunk the Smell Test

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2011 11:36 AM

Politics

NRA Joins ACLU in Urging SCOTUS to Let Victims of an Unconstitutional Gun Search Sue the Cops

Jacob Sullum | 12.7.2011 1:53 PM

Politics

'The Bill of Rights Is Not a Trick'

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2011 10:44 AM

Politics

Why Bother Attaching Tracking Devices to Cars When People Voluntarily Carry Them Wherever They Go?

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 6:14 PM

Policy

St. Louis Police Object to Collecting Their Own DNA

Jacob Sullum | 11.14.2011 10:19 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Mulls Warrantless GPS Tracking

Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2011 1:33 PM