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The Supreme Court is weighing in on another Fourth Amendment privacy case, this one concerning a Los Angeles ordinance requiring hotels to surrender guest registries to the police upon request without a warrant.

Thejustices agreed(PDF) Monday to hear Los Angeles' appeal of a lower court that ruled7-4 that the lawmeant to combat prostitution, gambling, and even terrorismwas unconstitutional. The law(PDF) requires hotels to provide the informationincluding guests' credit card number, home address, driver's license information, and vehicle license numberat a moment's notice. Several dozen cities, from Atlanta to Seattle, have similar ordinances.

"The Supreme Court will consider both the scope of privacy protections for hotel guests and also whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits laws that allow unlawful searches," EPIC wrote. "The second issue has far-reaching consequences because many recent laws authorize the police searches without judicial review. Thus far, courts have only considered "as applied" challenges on a case-by-case basis."

The appeal is the third high-profile Fourth Amendment case the justices have taken in three years.

In 2012, the justices ruled that authorities generally need search warrants when they affix GPS devices to a vehicle. And earlier this year, the Supreme Court said that the authorities need warrants to peek into the mobile phones of suspects they arrest.

In the latest case,Los Angeles motel owners sued, claiming that the law was a violation of their rights. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the motel owners in December and said the only documentsthey must disclose include a hotel's proprietary pricing and occupancy information.

Businesses do not ordinarily disclose, and are not expected to disclose, the kind of commercially sensitive information contained in the records, Judge Paul Watford wrote for the majority. He said a hotel has "the right to exclude others from prying into the contents of its records."

In dissent, Judge Richard Clifton wrote that neither the hotel nor the guest has an expectation of privacy."A guest's information is even less personal to the hotel than it is to the guest," Clifton said.

In arguing to the justices that they should review the majority's conclusion, Los Angeles city officials wrote(PDF), "These laws expressly help police investigate crimes such as prostitution and gambling, capture dangerous fugitives and even authorize federal law enforcement to examine these registers, an authorization which can be vital in the immediate aftermath of a homeland terrorist attack."

Thehigh court did not set a hearing date.

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Several Galaxy devices (and the Boeing Black phone) received NSA approval to carry classified information.

A number of Samsung mobile devices have been cleared by the National Security Agency for use by U.S. government officials.

The Galaxy S5, S4, Note 4, and Note 3 smartphones, plus the Note 10.1 tablet, among others, received NSA approval to carry classified information, provided they are running Samsung's secure Knox enterprise suite.

Boeing's self-destructing Black smartphone (not to be confused with the Blackphone) also made the list.

"The inclusion of Samsung mobile devices on the ... list proves the unmatched security of Samsung Galaxy Devices supported by the Knox platform," CEO JK Shin said in a statement. "At Samsung, we continue to address today's increasingly complex security challenges, and are committed to delivering the most reliable mobile platform satisfying the needs of professionals in all industries."

Samsung Knox, introduced last year, provides Samsung devices with a corporate controlled "container," much like BlackBerry Balance. The Department of Defense approved Knox in May 2013, and Samsung struck a deal with mobile security firm Lookout last September to bolster the security of Android devices running Knox.

By December, however, researchers found a "critical vulnerability" in Knox, which they said could enable "easy interception of data communications." The following month, Samsung said the researchers "did not identify a flaw or bug in Samsung Knox or Android, [but] a classic Man in the Middle (MitM) attack, which is possible at any point on the network to see unencrypted application data."

In May, Samsung released its Galaxy S5 smartphone with Knox 2.0; the update includes an improved user experience and new tools for SMBs.

The next month, five Knox-installed Galaxy phones and tablets received approval from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency.

Such approvals are increasingly necessary in a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) environment. Gone are the days when people had a BlackBerry for work and an iPhone or other smartphone for personal use. People don't want to carry two gadgets around, so IT departments have had to add support for more popular devices. In industries that deal with classified or sensitive information - from banking to the military - super-secure services like Knox are intended to avoid data leaks and prying eyes.

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A year and a half into the release of classified documents by Edward Snowden, the existence of far-reaching National Security Agency surveillance is common if controversial knowledge.

But until The Intercept published new documents this month, the role of American companies in that surveillance was less than clear, ProPublicas Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson tell Editor-in-Chief Steve Engelberg in this weeks podcast.

The new documents describe "contractual relationships" between the NSA and unnamed U.S. companies and reveal that the NSA has "under cover" spies working at or with some of them. And indeed, it would be difficult for the NSA to do its work without their help, Larson says.

The important thing about todays communications infrastructure is that it doesnt respect country borders, he says, Youre no longer looking at Soviet signals in Russia youre trying to cast a wide net and collect information thats traveling maybe through the United States while it goes from, say, London to China.

The cooperating companies in question, though unnamed in the new documents, are almost certainly telecommunications companies that lay the fiber for data communications, Angwin says, as they are really the first point of attack for anyone whos trying to do surveillance, whether theyre a criminal, or the NSA.

Aside from privacy concerns, Angwin also notes theres the simple question of cost surveillance has quadrupled to $80 billion since 9/11 vs. benefit. Were, you know, a year and a half into the Snowden leaks, she says, and the NSA has yet to provide clear evidence that any of the surveillance has worked to prevent an attack, right?

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