D.C. Judge: Government Doesn’t Need a Warrant to Demand Cell Phone Location Information
These days, most people carry a cell phone with them everywhere they go: to work, to church, on vacation, and more. And cell phone carriers may capture and retain records of your location even when you’re not using your phone. Does that me...
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Tracked: The Supreme Court Shouldn’t Let Technology Trump the Constitution
Yesterday we filed a friend-of-the-court brief in United States v. Jones, which Adam Liptak at The New York Times called "the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade." We are asking the Supreme Court to hold that the government...
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Your Privacy Rights, Before Congress Now and the Supreme Court in November
In June, we told you the Supreme Court agreed to hear United States v. Jones, a case that will determine if the government may plant GPS devices on vehicles to track people without a warrant. The government has appealed the D.C. appellate court's ...
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This Week in Civil Liberties
The theme this week was "without": combating the spread of AIDS without actual tools and information to combat the spread of AIDS, searches without warrants, protections for business without protections for everybody else, government burea...
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Your iPhone "Location Diary" and Apple’s Inadequate Response
Apple has finally responded to the revelation that iPhone and iPads keep records of their users' whereabouts. We're glad that Apple has promised to change this practice. At the same time, nobody should think of this dust-up as some overblown quirk o...
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