Ladar Levison's court loss leaves privacy issues undecided

Ladar Levison's Court Loss Leaves Privacy Issues Undecided   By Alexander R. Cohen   Instead of giving serious consideration to the core issue in the case—whether the government was entitled to force Levison to turn over his encryption keys so that investigators could get one customer’s metadata, even though that would have meant giving the government access to all his customers’ metadata and email contents—the court decided the appeal on the ground that Levison had failed to raise his arguments in the trial court. You’re generally not allowed to ask an appellate court to say a trial court got something wrong unless you gave the trial court a chance to get it right. You aren’t allowed to raise whole new issues in the appeal. And that’s what the Fourth Circuit said Levison was trying to do. Read now >   Congratulations! You launched another best-seller!   Thanks to you our readers, our new book The Republican Party's Civil War: Will Freedom Win? has rocketed up over 372,000 notches in Amazon's rankings to land in the Top 10 best-seller list.   Read more >   FROM THE ATLAS SOCIETY BLOGS:     Syria—The King Wins Objectivity Toward Obama The Sanction of the Victim IRS Still Fighting to Regulate Tax Preparers   Contact Us The Atlas Society 1001 Connecticut Ave, NW Suite 830 Washington, D.C. 20036 (800) 374-1776 (202) 296-7263  Fax: (202) 296-0771 tas@atlassociety.org www.atlassociety.org 99 cents: Kindle version This week only, on Amazon:   Explore the Business Rights Center

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