Let the NSA’s bulk metadata collection continue for six more months, the court rules, until the phone companies get control over the records. Plus ça change…!
Tag Archives: ACLU
Wikimedia joins forces with others to sue NSA, DOJ over mass surveillance
The ACLU has filed a suit on behalf of rights groups against the NSA’s spying program – in particular, its large-scale search and seizure of internet communications, commonly referred to as upstream surveillance. 
Massive DEA license plate reader program tracks millions of Americans
The DEA is license plate reader cameras to capture information on an enormous number of motorists, with some 793.5 million license plates stored in a database built for and with federal and local authorities. 
YouTube channel swamps police with requests for disclosure of body-cam video
A YouTube channel has been surfacing police body-cam footage. It now has some 75 videos up, showing, among other things, men with knives, break-ins, car accidents, drug smoking, and an emergency phone call about a woman going into labor. Subjects’ privacy, it seems, is getting trampled in the stampede to get at such video. 
Civil liberties advocates, bookstores, publishers sue to stop anti revenge porn law
Those seeking to outlaw revenge porn are now battling a coalition of free-speech advocates who claim the existing laws were thrown together so shabbily, they could arguably be used to criminalize a host of non-vengeful innocents who handle nude images.
Australian police using tower dumps to slurp mass phone data
Australian federal and state police have joined the ranks of mega-data slurpers – namely, the US, where 1 in 4 law enforcement agencies have reportedly used a “tower dump” – ordering phone providers to hand over personal information about thousands of mobile phone users, regardless of whether or not those people are under investigation.
US court finds warrantless tracking of mobile phones unconstitutional
In what the ACLU calls a “huge victory”, an appeals court on Wednesday ruled that such warrantless search violates the US Constitution. 
Feds swoop in, snatch mobile phone tracking records away from ACLU
After the Feds seized the surveillance records, US Marshals then moved the physical records 320 miles away, meaning the ACLU wouldn’t be able to learn how, and how extensively, police use snooping devices.