Collaborate Disseminate
The longtime privacy advocate says that “intimate privacy is the key to citizenship, love and flourishing.”
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The latest version of the legislation still leaves loopholes for abuses of data including reproductive health data.
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The Justice Department is abusing secret subpoenas to collect cloud user data at alarming rates, a top Microsoft executive testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Tom Burt, Microsoft’s vice president of customer security and trust, told lawmakers that the company currently receives between 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders each year. That’s roughly a third of the total number of requests that federal law enforcement sends to Microsoft, and it’s a number that has grown as more companies and organizations rely on cloud providers to serve as their virtual offices. The hearing comes on the heels of a revelation earlier this month that the Justice Department had used such gag orders to secretly subpoena Microsoft and Apple for data from two members of Congress, Capitol Hill staffers and some family members. “If law enforcement wants to secretly search someone’s physical office, it must meet a heightened burden […]
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Google stands accused of agreeing to overly-broad search warrants, which might violate the Fourth Amendment.
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Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance. Continue reading Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data
The man became a suspect because location data from his Android phone was swept up in a surveillance dragnet called a geofence warrant. Continue reading Google data puts innocent man at the scene of a crime
The border is NOT a constitution-free zone, according to the ruling: No more suspicionless fishing expeditions into travelers’ devices. Continue reading Warrantless searches of devices at US borders ruled unconstitutional
Newly revealed policies show border agents can search devices for pretty much any reason, including if some other agency asked them to. Continue reading DHS policies allow unlimited, warrantless device search
A Massachusetts federal district judge gave cops a warrant to force-unlock iPhones with the suspect’s fingers. Continue reading Cops can try suspect’s fingers on locked iPhones found at crime scene
The Muslim American wants assurances that the data – including photos of her not wearing a hijab – are deleted. Continue reading Woman sues US border patrol over data copied from seized iPhone