By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 4:30pm
If we do not limit the use of automated license plate readers, it will represent a significant step toward the creation of a surveillance society in the United States.
By Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 3:33pm
In a victory for the privacy rights of everyone with a cell phone, a court has held that law enforcement agents must get a warrant to access cell phone location records. The ACLU, ACLU of Texas and Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted a brief urging the court to adopt exactly this position. The Constitution requires nothing less.
By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 3:52pm
The ACLU today wrote to the CEOs of the nation's major cell phone providers asking that they stop routinely collecting and storing data on their customers' daily movements.
By Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 9:48am
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard argument in an important case that confronts how to apply Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures to new technologies.
Today the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that’s likely to affect the privacy rights of anyone who carries a cell phone. The case, U.S. v. Jones, is about whether law enforcement needs a warrant before planting a GPS tracking device on a person’s car. But more and more, the government is monitoring people’s movements by tracking their cell phones.
It doesn’t matter whether your phone is a smartphone or not, or whether you use it to make calls — as long as your phone is turned on, it registers its location with cell phone networks several times a minute — and all U.S. cell phone companies hold on to that data.
By Catherine Crump, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 12:59pm
This term the Supreme Court will determine if the government needs to establish probable cause and obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS device to a person's car.
