Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional

The platform, which allows users to anonymously share the locations of ICE agents, is currently the third-most-downloaded iPhone app...

US Federal Court Rules Against Geofence Warrants

This is a big deal. A US Appeals Court ruled that geofence warrants--these are general warrants demanding information about all people within a geographical boundary--are unconstitutional. The decision seems obvious to me, but you cant take anything for granted...

Geofence Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional—but That’s Not the End of It

Plus: US regulators fine T-Mobile $60 million for mishap with sensitive data, New Zealand approves Kim Dotcom’s US extradition, and San Francisco takes on deepfake porn...

Google Report Spotlights Controversial ‘Geofence Warrants’ by Police

Newly released data by Google sheds light on a controversial practice called “geofence warrants”, which describes the practice of law enforcement requesting mobile phone data of users within close proximity of a crime. Google said, in an August report, the number of geofence warrants the company...

Microsoft Sues US Govt Over Unconstitutional Secret Data Requests

Microsoft is suing the Department of Justice DoJ to protest the gag order that prevents technology companies from telling their customers when their cloud data is handed over to authorities. In layman's terms, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ECPA allows the government to issue gag order...

Apple Counters FBI's Backdoor Demand as Unconstitutional

Apple has matched the Department of Justice’s recent vitriol, by this week calling the FBI’s request for code to help it unlock Syed Farook’s iPhone unconstitutional. Furthermore, Apple in a court filing this week again challenged the validity of the government’s use of the All Writs Act of 1789 ...

National Security Letters Challenged in Ninth Circuit Court

In the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco Wednesday morning, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s EFF Kurt Opsahl urged the federal appeals court to uphold a lower court’s ruling that national security letters NSLs are unconstitutional. Regardless whether the ruling is upheld, the matter of NSL...

Twitter Files Suit Over Government Restrictions on National Security Letter Data

Twitter has filed a lawsuit in federal court asking that the United States Department of Justice’s prohibitions on publishing the number and kind of government requests for data the company receives be declared unconstitutional. The suit claims that the rules infringe on Twitter’s right to free...

U.S. District Court Judge Rules NSA Metadata Collection Likely Violates Fourth Amendment

A United States District Court judge has ruled that the bulk metadata collection program maintained by the National Security Agency for years now likely is unconstitutional. The judge, ruling on a pair of law suits that claimed the NSA’s methods violated users’ privacy and civil rights, said that...

Declassified 2011 FISC Opinion Shows Court Found Some NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional

Newly declassified documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the EFF show that the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in 2011 declared that the National Security Agency’s techniques for collecting upstream Internet communications was unconstitutional an...