Headed home for the holidays? If you have any down time this weekend, here are three simple things you can do with your family to firm up your digital security. Install Privacy Badger on everyone’s web browsers. This neat browser extension, developed...
After spending years attacking cell phone privacy and encryption in the courts and in Congress, the FBI has used an Ohio man’s face to unlock his phone after obtaining a warrant to search his home. Since Apple announced its face recognition unlocking...
Last week, tech industry giants testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about how the federal government should safeguard consumer privacy—and not a single consumer advocate was invited. Apparently fearful of meaningful state action that could tie the hands...
Last week’s Supreme Court decision in Carpenter is one of the most important privacy rulings in the Court’s history. In a 5-4 opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court sided with Mr. Carpenter and his ACLU lawyers, holding that the government...
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether law enforcement must get a warrant to obtain historical cell site location records, which show where mobile phones (and their users) have been over a period of months or years. But even if SCOTUS mandates...
Over the weekend, the City of Cambridge released a draft surveillance oversight ordinance. Today at 2pm the Public Safety Committee of the City Council will hold a hearing on the draft, and take comments from the public and interested organizations. The ACLU...
Unfortunately, Congress has begun scratching an old, FBI-inspired itch again. Staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with the support of chair Senator Chuck Grassley and ranking democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, are reportedly in talks with technology companies about legislation that would most...
BEWARE OF THE BOTS From the New York Times: The Follower Factory On January 27th, the New York Times released a report on the sale of bots and social media identity theft. The investigation found that Devumi, a social media “influence” company, routinely...
Today the ACLU argues Carpenter v. United States before the Supreme Court. At the heart of the argument is this question: Do we have a constitutionally protected privacy interest in our cell phone location data? More specifically, can the government access this...
Video cameras inside bedrooms. Informants wearing tiny wires, capturing video and audio of everything you say. A government bug hidden somewhere in your office’s conference room, exposing your business to the listening ears of police and prosecutors. For decades in Massachusetts, these...