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The New Orleans Advocate recently published a shocking story that details the very real threats to privacy and civil liberties posed by law enforcement access to private genetic databases and familial DNA searching.In 1996, a young woman named Angie Dodge was murdered in her apartment in a small town...
There are some very disturbing videos circulating the Internet right now, depicting the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of trained, armed men. Many of these videos even show individuals being shot in the back, or as they try to flee.
These are videos of police officers in...
Virginia may be home to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the FBI National Academy, but it could also soon be home to some of the toughest regulations on local law enforcement use of surveillance technologies.
All lawmakers need to do is stand up to...
Police practices came under intense public scrutiny in 2014, as citizens raised further questions about the use of mass surveillance technologies and deadly force. From Ferguson to New York City, from Alameda County to Tucson, watchdogs have sought records to hold law enforcement agencies accountable for abuses. As one might...
Attention California: the privacy and security of your driver licenses are under threat from a new scheme to massively expand how photo IDs are shared and analyzed by law enforcement agencies.Over the last few months, an obscure panel within the California Department of Justice (DOJ) has been taking steps to...
Should police should be allowed to collect and analyze “inadvertently shed” DNA without a warrant or consent, such as swabbing cells from a drinking glass or a chair? That’s the question in Raynor v. State of Maryland, where the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled this sort of DNA collection did...
Amicus Brief filed on behalf of Northern California Chapter of Society of Professional Journalists in support of EFF and ACLU-SoCal’s appellate petition for writ of mandate in our case seeking access to a week’s worth of Los Angeles law enforcement ALPR license plate data.
Amicus Brief filed on behalf of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Los Angeles Times, California Newspaper Publishers Association, Californians Aware, and the McClatchy Company in support of EFF and ACLU-SoCal’s appellate petition for writ of mandate in our...
Update, February 11: Last night, the Public Safety Committee, led by Councilmember Desley Brooks, "approved in concept the work that has been done so far" by the Ad Hoc Privacy Policy Committee.Minutes of the meeting aren't yet available, but you can watch the video online. This post will be...
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