The American Civil Liberties Union today had a press briefing and released a set of technology principles which developers, policymakers, and the public can judge any technology-assisted contact-tracing apps and proposals for COVID-19. Together with the ACLU of Massachusetts, the ACLU is also today demanding the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease Control […]
Apr 16 2020 | Posted in
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A federal judge today ruled that US border agents can’t search travelers devices without “reasonable suspicion”, Reuters reported . While they can still search devices without a warrant, they now need a specific reason to do so. Previous searches by CPB and ICE without reason violated the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches […]
Nov 12 2019 | Posted in
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The American Civil Liberties Union wants to know more about the Transportation Security Administration’s policies concerning searches of electronic devices on domestic flights. As such, the ACLU has file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the TSA seeking the agency’s records. “The federal government’s policies on searching the phones, laptops, and tablets of domestic air passengers […]
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The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have sued the Department of Homeland Security for searching American citizens’ smartphones at the border without a warrant. Specifically, the groups say the Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agencies have delayed citizens’ entry into the country lest they give up smartphone […]
Several high-profile technology companies, including Apple, Airbnb, Cisco, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Snap, Twitter, and Verizon have submitted a amicus brief in a key case at the U.S. Supreme Court, expressing concerns about warrantless police access to cellphone location data. The tech firms argue that the court should “refine the applic Timothy Carpenter […]
Today, the U.S. Senate voted to use the Congressional Review Act to gut the FCC’s broadband privacy rules that prevent Internet Service Providers like Comcast and Verizon from selling their customer’s personal information to advertisers without permission. ACLU Legislative Counsel Neema Singh Guliani issued the following statement: “It is extremely disappointing that the Senate voted […]
Mar 23 2017 | Posted in
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A U.S. appeals court said law enforcement does not need to obtain a warrant before obtaining location data from wireless network operators. The decision stems from an appeal based on a Baltimore case involving armed robberies from 2011. Citing a decades-old idea suggesting consumers routinely allow their phone service provider to know their location, the […]
Jun 1 2016 | Posted in
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called on Congress to enable end-to-end encryption for its communications, by moving to apps such as Open Whisper Systems’ Signal, Whatsapp or iMessage. This year was a rather bad one for the U.S. government in terms of cybersecurity, considering it experienced the biggest hack in its history, when the […]
Sep 22 2015 | Posted in
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been handed a defeat in appeals court. A three-judge panel in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has ruled that the NSA phone records collection “exceeds the scope of what Congress has authorized” in Section 215 of the Patriot Act. However, the denial of a motion […]
May 7 2015 | Posted in
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FBI Director James Comey has again voiced his displeasure with the new encryption tools added to Android 5.0 Lollipop and iOS 8. Both Google and Apple added the default encryption to their mobile operating systems in order to protect user data. Comey says this is an impediment to law enforcement, making it more difficult — […]
