Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches, updates privacy laws

How The Internet Will [already does] Monitor Our Every Move 
The Imagining the Internet (ITI) survey recently published explains how young children are in a technological revolution fueled by the internet where educational lines are blurring and the opportunity for learning from locations across the globe are now possible. In 2050, as highways, shipping and communication have gone completely digital, the advent of a global internet consciousness could provide the right temperament for “crime and surveillance and other negative things in a way that’s probably more frightening than ever before.” Janna Anderson, associate professor of communications at Elon University (EU) and director of ITI explains: “When you ask all these people, these experts in all these different fields, what they see as having the most impact by 2025, and education is right there, … that’s very significant.”

Supreme Court bans warrantless cell phone searches, updates privacy laws
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot go snooping through people’s cell phones without a warrant, in a unanimous decision that amounts to a major statement in favor of privacy rights.  

No Place To Run & Hide: Wireless Breakthrough To Make Your Invisible Hiding Place Visible 
Wi-Fi wave technology can detect minute gestures like the rise and fall of a person’s chest through which a person’s heart rate can be measured with 99% accuracy. Researchers from MIT Wireless Center of the Computer Science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a wireless system which can track movement through a wall using WiFi waves. The technology can be used for military and law enforcement to find people hiding inside buildings and elsewhere, the scientists claimed. MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor and co-author of the research paper, Dina Katabi said, “It has traditionally been very difficult to capture such minute motions that occur at the rate of mere millimeters per second.”

Microsoft: Future ‘Bleak’ If Government Continues Unlawful Data Collection
Microsoft’s top lawyer is keeping up the pressure on the federal government to end its secret data collection, reports CNet. Brad Smith called on Congress and the White House to stop “the unfettered collection of bulk data.”