Category Archives: Digital privacy

Motherboard: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion

Motherboard: This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion by Jason Koebler and Anna Merlan (“Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager’s private chats about her abortion. Cops then used … Continue reading

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Bloomberg: ACLU Blasts Homeland Security Agency for Use of Location Data

Bloomberg: ACLU Blasts Homeland Security Agency for Use of Location Data by Ellen M. Gilmer (“Civil liberties advocates are accusing the Department of Homeland Security of skirting the Fourth Amendment by buying access to people’s cellphone location data.”)

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Politico: Amazon gave Ring videos to police without owners’ permission

Politico: Amazon gave Ring videos to police without owners’ permission by Alfred Ng (“The revelation highlights the many ways that police can get footage from Ring doorbells, and how often it happens without consent.”)

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N.D.Cal.: Another round in the Google sale of consumer information case

In the ongoing Google privacy case involving its selling of personal information, another motion to dismiss is granted in part and denied in part. In re Google RTB Consumer Priv. Litig., 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115023 (N.D. Cal. June 13, … Continue reading

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WaPo: Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone

WaPo: Okay, Google: To protect women, collect less data about everyone by Geoffrey A. Fowler (“In post-Roe America, Google searches and location records can be evidence of a crime. Here are four ways Google should protect civil rights in its … Continue reading

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Forbes: Warrants Can Force Google To Look Through Your Search History–A Tragic Arson Case May Decide If That’s Constitutional

Forbes: Warrants Can Force Google To Look Through Your Search History–A Tragic Arson Case May Decide If That’s Constitutional by Thomas Brewster (“This week, Mike Price, counsel for Seymour and Fourth Amendment Center litigation director at the National Association of … Continue reading

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NBC News: Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge

NBC News: Police sweep Google searches to find suspects. The tactic is facing its first legal challenge by Jon Schuppe (“Privacy advocates are watching the case closely, concerned that police could use reverse keyword searches to investigate people who seek … Continue reading

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The Intercept: Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE

The Intercept: Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE by Sam Biddle (“ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether.”)

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The Hill: Period tracking apps are trying to protect users’ privacy now that Roe is overturned

The Hill: Period tracking apps are trying to protect users’ privacy now that Roe is overturned by Shirin Ali (“Flo, a period tracker app that’s used by 200 million users worldwide, announced it was developing an anonymous mode which will … Continue reading

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MSNBC: In post-Roe America, your cell phone is now a reproductive privacy risk

MSNBC: In post-Roe America, your cell phone is now a reproductive privacy risk by Tiffany C. Li (“Now that Roe v. Wade has fallen, states that choose to criminalize abortion can start buying and subpoenaing consumer data.”) WaPo: With Roe … Continue reading

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EFF: How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data

EFF: How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data by Bennett Cyphers:

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USA Today: Online data, medical records could be used to put women in jail under new abortion laws

USA Today: Online data, medical records could be used to put women in jail under new abortion laws by Tami Abdollah (“Period tracking apps, tele-health appointments, mail-in pharmacy requests and other data could be used as evidence in criminal cases … Continue reading

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Law & Crime: Federal Judge Won’t Let Prosecutors Use Digital Cameras Seized from Accused U.S. Capitol Rioter Seen Boasting About ‘Fighting Cops’

Law & Crime: Federal Judge Won’t Let Prosecutors Use Digital Cameras Seized from Accused U.S. Capitol Rioter Seen Boasting About ‘Fighting Cops’ by Adam Klasfeld:

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But this: GoPro camera evidence admitted

NBC News: Jan. 6 rioter sentenced after his GoPro showed him on front line rushing police by Ryan J. Reilly (via AOL). Our electronics rat us out.

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Scientific American: Yes, Phones Can Reveal if Someone Gets an Abortion

Scientific American: Yes, Phones Can Reveal if Someone Gets an Abortion by Sophie Bushwick (“To protect personal information from companies that sell data, some individuals are relying on privacy guides instead of government regulation or industry transparency.”)

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Crime Report: Installing a Security Camera? In Chicago That Will Earn $$$

Crime Report: Installing a Security Camera? In Chicago That Will Earn $$$ by TCR staff (“Chicago authorities have announced a new program that reimburses residents and businesses for installing security cameras. There’s one caveat: the cameras must be registered with … Continue reading

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Buying Data and the Fourth Amendment by Orin S. Kerr

Orin S. Kerr, Buying Data and the Fourth Amendment, Hoover Institution, Aegis Series Paper No. 2109 (Nov. 17, 2021):

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PA: No REP in data moving back and forth over a (nearly) public wifi connection where user agreement told users that

Defendant connected to the wifi at his college, and he was aware of the computing access policy that said that he had no Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy in the information that moved back and forth over his connection. … Continue reading

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Engadget: The Treasury Department is buying sensitive app data for investigations

Engadget: The Treasury Department is buying sensitive app data for investigations by Jon Fingas (“There are concerns investigators are bypassing due process” and the Fourth Amendment. This isn’t new information.)

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NYT: Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System

NYT: Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans to Shut Down Facial Recognition System (“Saying it wants ‘to find the right balance’ with the technology, the social network will delete the face scan data of more than one billion users.”)

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