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Huge Privacy Win: Warrants Now Required for Searching Arrestees’ Mobile Phones
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...
House Passes Lofgren-Massie Amendment to Help Rein in NSA
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...
Privacy Advocates tell Congress: Fix Watered-down USA Freedom Act!
In its original version, the USA Freedom Act represented an important step toward ending the government’s bulk collection of data about individuals. Unfortunately, the Rules...
TF, CDT, and 40 others tell Congress what real NSA reform should look like
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...
Overshadowed by NSA surveillance, ECPA reform still making progress
The mass surveillance of American citizens by the NSA has been the leading technology policy story for months, and rightly so. But there are other...
Feds Allow More Transparency on FISA Surveillance but Don’t Go Far Enough
Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has reached an agreement with Google and Microsoft to allow them and other tech companies to report,...