Introducing you. Of course, greg, the Senior Council director of the project at the center for democracy and technology. Thats enough of an introduction. You left out the website. Its www. Cdt. Org. Dont forget the plug. Listen, i its easy to come here and be pessimistic about the future of the Fourth Amendment in the technology and digital age. Its kind of easy because you look at what courts decided in the past. When i was at the aclu about 20 years ago, used to call the Fourth Amendment the incredible shrinking Fourth Amendment. Well, im not so sure that the Fourth Amendment is going to continue to shrink. And i think theres reasons to be optimistic. I want to talk about the reasons to be not so optimistic. Some of the doctrines that do shrink the Fourth Amendment are themselves growing. The administrative search you have to endure in the airport before you get on an airplane. It used to be a quick, less intrusive magnetometer. Now you go through an electronic strip search machine t
Update the statute to codify a warrant for content standard as many of you know. It makes distinctions, i think, that dont comport with users reasonable expectations of privacy today. At the heart of Service Providers, its this notion of 180day rule where contents of your communications are subject to the warrant requirement up until 180 days and thereafter at the 181st day all of a sudden can be subpoenaed. All right today in the sixth Circuit Companies like google require a warrant for all content regardless of the age, regardless of where it is stored and when it has been opened or when it has been opened. There is legislation that is pending in congress has been pending. Right now, it has over 250 cosponsors in the house of representatives. If it were voted on today in the house, it would pass. I have a lot of confidence that the same results would be true in the senate. Not the least of which, it helps to pave the way for future as many of you know in the next couple of months, se
Congressman to threaten a reporter and why the lawmaker is standing by his action. And breaking his silence. The nfl player who says he was bullied, Jonathan Martin tells his story publicly for the first time in an exclusive interview. Comments of a raceful nature, aggressive, sexual comments were related to my sister and my mother. Will he ever play in the nfl again . Today, wednesday, january 29th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside carson daly and Natalie Morales. Weve got al roker in washington, d. C. This morning. Matts got the morning off, and boy, do we have a weather story. The news is the weather, and especially down south, the storm is so devastating. They dont have enough salt or plows to deal with this weather. Theyre not used to it like we are up north. Things are so bad, a number of School Distri
Island still has rose closed leading off the bay bridge. We will have a full update for you next. Were awaiting of with temperatures in the 40 degrees mark perry it is clear out their as we head into the afternoon expect mostly sunny skies. Will have more on the weather in about 15 minutes right now along interstate 80 east we had an off ramp shut down this morning after a tanker truck shutdown. Kron4 as mike pelton is live at the scene with an update, mike ben wanted to take croquet from the over turn tanker and put it in a large empty tank and move it safely. Power is out right now before the site for the fuel out of the tank into the intake. A double tanker truck overturned with a back tanker is the one who overturned. Tow trucks will carefully flip the tanker back onto its tires and there will be fields inside the in to take care officials will have to be careful with this removal because the last several hours. Ardsley we are talking not a flammable chemical and we want to take ou
It wasnt just all the folks the south who got it. How much did we get, jacqui . A half inch at reagan national. I want you to know who is still being affected by this snow. It is still coming down in a couple of spots. Were on a Winter Weather advisory. King George County in virginia. Notice the blue colors on the map. That is a wind chill advisory in effect until noon today. Lets take a look at live super doppler. You can see the snow in extreme southern maryland. This is beginning to exit in another couple of hours. Well look for dryer conditions. Well have to deal with that cleanup. Leonardtown got 3 inches. Lusby, 2 inches. Culpeper, 1. 5 inches. Here is what you need to know for the rest of the day. It is a slow start. My neighborhood was on the icy side and not cleared at all. We watch for clearing skies and chilly conditions. Warmer days are ahead. Even some rain to help wash all of this away. Well have details coming up in your sevenday forecast. First lets get the latest on th