• Oct 3, 2022
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Surveillance,

Burgeoning Mass Surveillance in the US by Police, Immigration, Customs, and Military

A couple of weeks ago, the PIA blog had a long and detailed post about Fog Reveal. Long story short, Fog Reveal provides law enforcement with easy and often warrantless access to the precise geolocation of hundreds of millions of US citizens. Significantly, it is able to do that using standard advertising identifiers employed by … Continue reading “Burgeoning Mass Surveillance in the US by Police, Immigration, Customs, and Military”

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  • Feb 16, 2021
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

The US Government can search your phone at the border without a warrant

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has ruled that border security doesn’t need a warrant to do a digital search of your device at borders. The court decision reverses a 2019 decision in the case of Alasaad v. Wolf which held that both basic searches and advanced analytics searches of phones required … Continue reading “The US Government can search your phone at the border without a warrant”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 11, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of December 11th, 2020 The US government admits to using the Patriot Act to collect web browsing information The Director of National Intelligence has admitted that the US government has used FISA courts to collect web browsing information. The Patriot Act is most well known for being used to … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 11, 2020”

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  • Dec 3, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

CBP wants to create a facial recognition database of every non-US citizen traveler to the United States

U.S. Customs Border Protection (CBP) has filed a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that highlights their ongoing plans to create a facial recognition database with mugshots of all non-US citizen travelers. The CBP previously proposed the same facial recognition database in 2019, but wanted to also collect mugshots of US citizens. Understandably, the backlash was … Continue reading “CBP wants to create a facial recognition database of every non-US citizen traveler to the United States”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: October 30, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of October 30th, 2020 Thailand orders ISPs to block Telegram amid ongoing protests According to a leaked document that was marked top secret, the Thai government has ordered internet service providers to block the popular messaging app Telegram. Telegram was being used by Thai protesters to organize, and the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: October 30, 2020”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 28, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of August 28th, 2020 Max Schrems files 101 complaints across 30 European countries to turbocharge GDPR’s impact – and he’s not the only one The European privacy activist behind Noyb recently filed these complaints to follow up on the recent European Union Court of Justice decision that invalidated the … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 28, 2020”

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  • Jun 11, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

35 Members of Congress sign letter asking federal agencies to stop surveillance on Black Lives Matter protests

Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Bobby Rush (D-IL) have published a letter which was sent to multiple federal agencies demanding that the federal agencies stop spying on Black Lives Matter protests happening across the country. All in all, 35 members of Congress signed onto the letter showing a strong backlash to the use of … Continue reading “35 Members of Congress sign letter asking federal agencies to stop surveillance on Black Lives Matter protests”

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