Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are “Categorically” Unconstitutional
By Andrew Crocker In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the…
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Is the Justice Department Even Following Its Own Policy in Cybercrime Prosecution of a Journalist?
By Andrew Crocker Following an FBI raid of his home last year, the freelance journalist Tim Burke has been arrested and indicted in connection with…
Victory: Utah Supreme Court Upholds Right to Refuse to Tell Cops Your Passcode
By Andrew Crocker Last week, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors violated a defendant’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination when they presented testimony about…
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant
By Jennifer Lynch and Andrew Crocker Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of…
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Has Made a Mockery of the Constitutional Right to Privacy
By Andrew Crocker The latest evidence that Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act (FISA) must be ended or drastically reformed came last month…
The STOP CSAM Act Would Put Security and Free Speech at Risk
By Mario Trujillo, by Andrew Crocker, by Sophia Cope A new U.S. Senate bill introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the internet….
Appeals Court Upholds Restriction on Twitter’s First Amendment Right to Publish National Security Transparency Report
By Andrew Crocker A ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week marks a new low in judicial deference to classification and…
EFF Files Amicus Brief Challenging Orange County, CA’s Controversial DNA Collection Program
By Jennifer Lynch, Saira Hussain, and Andrew Crocker Should the government be allowed to collect your DNA—and retain it indefinitely—if you’re arrested for a low-level…
Police Can’t Demand You Reveal Your Phone Passcode and Then Tell a Jury You Refused
By Andrew Crocker The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide…
EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Grant Immunity to Notorious Spyware Company
By Sophia Cope and Andrew Crocker EFF filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of WhatsApp’s lawsuit…
Clearview’s Faceprinting is Not Sheltered from Biometric Privacy Litigation by the First Amendment
By Adam Schwartz and Andrew Crocker Clearview AI extracts faceprints from billions of people, without their consent, and uses these faceprints to offer a service…
Maine Broadband Privacy Law Passes Early First Amendment Test
By Adam Schwartz, Andrew Crocker, and Kit Walsh When you send an email or browse the web, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) may track what…
The Senate’s New Anti-Encryption Bill Is Even Worse Than EARN IT, and That’s Saying Something
By Andrew Crocker Right now, we rely on secure technologies like never before—to cope with the pandemic, to organize and march in the streets, and…
Victory: Indiana Supreme Court Rules that Police Can’t Force Smartphone User to Unlock Her Phone
By Andrew Crocker In courts across the country, EFF has been arguing that the police cannot constitutionally require you to unlock your phone or give…