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Huge Privacy Win: Warrants Now Required for Searching Arrestees’ Mobile Phones

June 26, 2014

A victory for the smartphone-toting arrestee, and commonsense. Police almost always have to get a warrant before intruding into our private spaces. That’s because courts...


Tell Congress to Protect your Data from Warrantless Searches

June 25, 2014

Police and other law enforcement can conduct warrantless searches of Americans’ emails, cloud storage, and other digital effects, because our law is outdated. Lawmakers wrote...


House Passes Lofgren-Massie Amendment to Help Rein in NSA

June 20, 2014

The NSA collects emails and browsing and chat histories of Americans and searches the information without a warrant under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments...


Dozens of Nonprofits Urge Obama to Support ECPA Reform

April 29, 2014

Last December, over 100,000 Americans joined together to demand an end to warrantless searches of emails and other online data. 138 days later, we still...


“Big Data” Inquiry Should Study Economics & Free Speech: TF urges reform of blanket surveillance and FTC processes

April 1, 2014

Yesterday, TechFreedom submitted comments urging the White House to apply economic thinking to its inquiry into “Big Data,” also pointing out that the worst abuses...


TF, CDT, and 40 others tell Congress what real NSA reform should look like

April 1, 2014

The White House has expressed support for reining in the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone records, but with multiple bills in Congress it’s uncertain...