EFF Goes to Court to Uncover Police Surveillance Tech in California

Which surveillance technologies are California police using? Are they buying access to your location data? If so, how much are they paying? These are basic questions the Electronic Frontier Foundation is trying to answer in a new lawsuit called Pen-Link v. County of San Joaquin Sheriff’s Office. EFF filed a motion in California Superior Court […]

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A Sale of 23andMe’s Data Would Be Bad for Privacy. Here’s What Customers Can Do.

The CEO of 23andMe has recently said she’d consider selling the genetic genealogy testing company–and with it, the sensitive DNA data that it’s collected, and stored, from many of its 15 million customers. Customers and their relatives are rightly concerned. Research has shown that a majority of white Americans can already be identified from just […]

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The California Supreme Court Should Help Protect Your Stored Communications

When you talk to your friends and family on Snapchat or Facebook, you should be assured that those services will not freely disclose your communications to the government or other private parties. That is why the California Supreme Court must take up and reverse the appellate opinion in the case of Snap v. The Superior Court […]

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