Entries tagged with: Cell Phone

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EPIC Seeks Records About Lawfulness of Use of Location Data for Public Health Surveillance

EPIC has submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Justice seeking legal analysis concerning the collection and use of GPS and cell phone location data for public health surveillance. EPIC explained "The Department of Justice plays...

EPIC Seeks Records About White House Plan to Use Cellphone Data for Coronavirus Tracking

EPIC has submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Office of Science and Technology Policy seeking information about the White House plan to use cell phone location data for public health surveillance. According to news reports, the White...

EPIC Sues Border Agency about Searches of Cellphones

EPIC will file a lawsuit today to compel a federal agency to release audits so as to determine whether the searches of electronic devices are lawful. The Border Search Directive sets out when and how Customs and Border Patrol officials...

Victory for Privacy: Supreme Court Says Cell Phone Location Records Protected Under Fourth Amendment

In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment protects location records generated by mobile phones. The government in Carpenter v. United States had obtained more than 6 months of location records without a warrant. EPIC...

Appeals Court: Border Searches of Cell Phones Require 'Reasonable Suspicion'

A federal appeals court has ruled that U.S. border officials may not conduct a forensic search of a mobile device without a "reasonable suspicion" that the device contains evidence of a crime. The court's decision followed Riley v. California, a...

EPIC Urges Appeals Court to Uphold Fourth Amendment Protections for Searches of Students' Cell Phones

EPIC has filed an amicus brief with the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Jackson v. McCurry, stating that teachers may not search a student's cell phone unless they have followed an explicit school policy that complies with Fourth Amendment...

EPIC Urges Supreme Court to Apply Constitution to Cell Phone Data

EPIC has filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief in Carpenter v. United States concerning the Fourth Amendment and location data. EPIC urged the Supreme Court to reject a 1970s case, Smith v. Maryland (1979), that allows for the warrantless collection of calling...

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Privacy of Cell Phone Location Data

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted review in Carpenter v. United States, a case concerning the privacy of cell phone location data. At issue is data that can be used to track cell phone users and whether police are required...

Massachusetts Court Upholds Privacy Rights of Cell Phone Users

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled today in Commonwealth v. White that the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement from seizing a cell phone based simply on an officer’s suspicion that a cell phone may be used in a crime, finding...

Massachusetts Court Hears Arguments in Student Privacy Case

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments yesterday in Commonwealth v. White, a case concerning both student privacy and cell phone privacy. EPIC filed an amicus brief in the case, arguing that the police should obtain a warrant before seizing...

In Court: EPIC Urges Massachusetts to Protect Student Privacy

EPIC has filed an amicus brief in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court regarding a student privacy case. EPIC said that the police should obtain a warrant before seizing a student's cell phone. Citing a recent Supreme Court case, EPIC explained...

Senators Push DHS to Enact Cell Phone Monitoring Policy

Senator Chuck Grassley and Senator Patrick Leahy have asked DHS Jeh Johnson to enact a policy on cell phone surveillance devices, known as "Stingrays." The Department of Justice recently adopted new guidelines on Stingray use that requires agents to obtain...

Unanimous Supreme Court Upholds Privacy Rights of Cell Phone Users

The Supreme Court ruled today that a warrantless search of a cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment, even when it occurs during a lawful arrest. The Court's decision in Riley v. California makes clear that "a search of the information...

Supreme Court Considers Privacy of Cell Phones

Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases presenting the question of whether the warrantless search of a cell phone following an arrest violates the Fourth Amendment. A transcript of arguments in the first case, Riley v. California, is here...

Riley v. California

Concerning the Constitutionality of a Warrantless Cell Phone Search Incident to Arrest Outcome | Background | EPIC's Interest in Riley v. California | Legal Documents | Resources | News Reports Outcome The Supreme Court held in a unanimous decision by...

Locational Privacy

Background | Cases | News | Resources EPIC's Alan Butler talks to the Wall Street Journal on Location Privacy Latest News : () More top news » ');"> » () "> Issues When individuals are moving about in public...