Tag: Location Tracking
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EPIC’s Jake Wiener to Testify Again on Privacy Protections for Traffic Camera Systems in Maryland
March 27, 2024
EPIC's Jake Wiener to testify in Maryland Senate on privacy protections for automated traffic enforcement programs.
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Data Protection
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Location Tracking
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Privacy in Public
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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EPIC, ACLU, EFF Urge NHTSA to Prioritize Privacy When Developing New Drunk Driving Prevention Systems
March 5, 2024
EPIC, EFF, and the ACLU urged NHTSA to select the most privacy protective technologies available for new rules requiring cars to prevent drunk and impaired driving.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Protection
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Location Tracking
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Privacy in Public
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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EPIC’s Jake Wiener to Testify on Privacy Protections for Traffic Camera Systems in Maryland
February 29, 2024
EPIC counsel Jake Wiener will testify in Maryland in support of a bill enacting strong privacy protections for automated ticketing systems.
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Data Protection
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Location Tracking
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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Data Broker Helped Anti-Abortion Group Target Planned Parenthood Visitors, Wyden Letter Reveals
February 13, 2024
A letter from Senator Wyden published today revealed that Near Intelligence, a location data broker, tracked individuals’ visits to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood locations to feed a massive anti-abortion ad campaign. Senator Wyden sent the letter Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission asking the agencies to investigate the company, which claims to have information on 1.6 billion people across 44 countries.
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Data Protection
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FISA Section 702
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Location Tracking
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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DHS Disregards Internal Policies and Avoids Fourth Amendment Protections to Track Your Location
February 8, 2024
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published a report on DHS’ use of Commercial Telemetry Data (CTD). CTD, in brief, is data collected from mobile devices by private entities that can form a detailed timeline of the device’s location over the period of time contained in the dataset. The OIG report found that Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the United States Secret Service (USSS) bought and used CTD in violation of their own meager internal privacy policies.
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Intelligence Surveillance
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Surveillance Oversight
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Analysis
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DHS OIG: CBP, ICE, and Secret Service Violated Privacy Policies, Failed to Develop Sufficient Policies Before Purchasing and Using Commercial Geolocation Data
September 29, 2023
A report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General (DHS OIG) revealed that CBP, ICE, and the Secret Service purchased and used commercial geolocation data in violation of their privacy policies, and that DHS components have failed to develop policies governing the purchase and use of location data.
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Data Protection
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Location Tracking
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Open Government
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Privacy Impact Assessments
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Privacy in Public
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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EPIC’s Jake Wiener Testifies Before DC Council on Electronic Monitoring
June 27, 2023
EPIC Counsel Jake Wiener will testify today before the DC Council on proposed changes to the electronic monitoring of people in the criminal justice system.
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Data Protection
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Government Databases
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Location Tracking
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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New ICE Privacy Impact Assessment Shows All the Ways the Agency Fails to Protect Immigrants’ Privacy
April 20, 2023
ICE finally published a Privacy Impact Assessment for its massive Alternatives to Detention program surveilling immigrants waiting for court dates. Despite being 20 years late, the document fails to account for most of the harms of ICE surveillance and is already outdated.
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Surveillance Oversight
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Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
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Analysis
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Greater Legal Protections Needed for Phone Geolocation Data
November 28, 2022
Mobile carriers' responses to FCC inquiry further underscore the urgent need for Congress to enact laws that safeguard the privacy of Americans’ location data.
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Communications Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Location Tracking
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Analysis
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