EFF urged the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board to adopt a new law that would ensure community control of whether to adopt new surveillance technologies. All too often, police executives unilaterally decide to adopt powerful new spying tools that… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Locational Privacy’
Congress Must Pass Long-Delayed Email Privacy Bill
It’s time for Congress to put an end to a glaring loophole in privacy law. Thanks to the wording in a more than 30-year-old law, the papers in your desk are better protected than the emails in your inbox. Congress… Read More ›
Most Young Gig Economy Companies Way Behind On Protecting User Data: 2016 In Review
“Sharing” or “gig economy” companies like Uber and Airbnb continued to grow in 2016, meaning their data protection and privacy practices came into sharp focus as millions of Americans turned to these young companies for everything from rides to the… Read More ›
Mass Surveillance at Public Gatherings Is Why We Need Oversight Policies
You probably don’t expect the government to log and track your personally identifying information, despite having broken no laws, just because you attended an event at the fairgrounds. That would be preposterous in the Land of the Free. But, according… Read More ›
AT&T requires police to hide Hemisphere phone spying
AT&T built a powerful phone surveillance tool for police, called Hemisphere. Every day, AT&T adds four billion call records to Hemisphere, making it one of the largest known reservoirs of communications metadata that the government uses to spy on us…. Read More ›
Join the Movement for Community Control Over Police Surveillance
From cell-site simulators in New York to facial recognition devices in San Diego, law enforcement surveillance technologies are spreading across the country like an infectious disease. It’s almost epidemiological: one police department will adopt a new, invasive tool, and then… Read More ›
Civil Rights Coalition files FCC Complaint Against Baltimore Police Department for Illegally Using Stingrays to Disrupt Cellular Communications
Civil Rights Groups Urge FCC to Issue Enforcement Action Prohibiting Law Enforcement Agencies From Illegally Using Stingrays This week the Center for Media Justice, ColorOfChange.org, and New America’s Open Technology Institute filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission alleging… Read More ›
We Made the Message Loud and Clear: Stop the Rule 41 Updates
It’s Not Too Late to Write to Congress About the Disastrous Rule Change What happens when you try to push a dangerous policy through without the Internet noticing? The Internet fights back. A few days ago, we warned of an… Read More ›
Federal Appellate Court Strikes Potential Death Blow to Privacy in New Cell Site Location Information Case
This week, the full Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals—in a decision that impacts residents in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia—held that you have no expectation of privacy in historical location data generated by your cell phone…. Read More ›
House Advances Email Privacy Act, Setting the Stage for Vital Privacy Reform
House of Representatives Agrees That 30 Years Is Long Enough, Pushes Much-Needed Email Privacy Reform Bill to the Senate The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699) today, which would require the government to get a… Read More ›