Federal agents regularly used a cellphone location tracking device known as a Stingray without informing judges of their intent to do so, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed in a newly obtained document. The practice of using …
The Central Intelligence Agency must publicly declare whether or not it has documents on drone strikes carried out by the US government, and if so, must explain why it can keep those documents hidden from the public, according to a ne…
Earlier today, the Amerian Civil Liberties Union addressed a pointed letter to Pennsylvania’s Governor Mifflin School District after a student discovered her high school was blocking access to select LGBT-related websites. The…
Years after the Department of Homeland Security said it would consider the civil liberty implications of searching electronic devices of people crossing country lines, it’s published a report — and determined that few ch…
Investigators at the FBI supposedly aren’t happy that social networks like Facebook or Google+ don’t have the same kind of facility for wiretaps that phones have had for decades. If claimed industry contacts for CNET are right, senior staff at the bu…
The Hawaii state legislature has apparently pulled an about face on a proposed internet tracking bill, amid swelling concerns from civil libertarians and internet service providers alike. First introduced last week, the controversial measure calls for …
As part of its ongoing effort to keep New York City safe, the NYPD has begun testing a new scanning device capable of detecting concealed firearms from a distance of about 16 feet. Developed in conjunction with the Department of Defense, the technolog…
If we didn’t love the EFF already, we’d be proposing marriage now that it’s managed to reverse-engineer Carrier IQ’s pernicious monitoring software. CIQ exists in phones in three parts, the app itself, a configuration file and a database — where …
After a controversial presidential election that saw Joseph Kabila retain the office amid fierce protests, the Democratic Republic of Congo has shut down the nation’s text messaging services in order to restore public order. Civil liberties concer…
