Issues: Privacy

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1313EFF fights in the courts and Congress to extend your privacy rights into the digital world, and supports the development of privacy-protecting technologies. Donate to EFF to help support our efforts.
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1515**For information about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, check out EFF's [Surveillance Self-Defense](http://ssd.eff.org/) project.**
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1717## Litigation
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19- [Echostar v. Freetech](https://eff.org/cases/echostar-v-freetech)
20- [Bunnell v. MPAA](https://eff.org/cases/bunnell-v-mpaa)
21- [Internet Archive et al v Mukasey et al](https://eff.org/cases/archive-v-mukasey)
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23 In December 2007, the Internet Archive, along with its counsel the ACLU and EFF, filed a lawsuit challenging a national security letter issued to the Archive.
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2519- [Long Haul v Regents of the University of California](https://eff.org/cases/long-haul-v-regents-university-california)
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2721 EFF and the ACLU of Northern California filed suit in federal court on January 14, 2009 to protect the privacy and free speech rights of two San Francisco Bay Area community organizations after the groups' computers were seized and the data copied by federal and local law enforcement.
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23- [Echostar v. Freetech](https://eff.org/cases/echostar-v-freetech)
24- [Bunnell v. MPAA](https://eff.org/cases/bunnell-v-mpaa)
2925- [US v Jones](https://eff.org/cases/us-v-jones)
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3127 EFF has urged a U.S. appeals court to reject government claims that federal agents have an unfettered right to install Global Positioning System (GPS) location-tracking devices on anyone's car without a warrant.
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33- [FOIA: Social Neworking Monitoring](https://eff.org/foia/social-nework-monitoring)
34- [Warshak v. United States](https://eff.org/cases/warshak-v-united-sta)
3529- [In Re: Matter of Search Warrant (Boston College)](https://eff.org/cases/re-matter-search-warrant-boston-college)
30- [People v. Taylor](https://eff.org/cases/people-v-taylor)
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32 EFF has urged a California state court to suppress evidence gathered by law enforcement from a suspect's iPhone during a warrantless search, including phone book contacts, called phone numbers, emails, text messages, Internet search history, and photos.
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34- [FOIA: Social Networking Monitoring](https://eff.org/foia/social-network-monitoring)
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36 EFF, along with students from the Samuelson Clinic at UC Berkeley, filed suit against a half-dozen government agencies seeking their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance.
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38- [Warshak v. United States](https://eff.org/cases/warshak-v-united-sta)
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3740» [All Privacy Cases](https://eff.org/related/384/case)
3841
3942## In The News
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41- CNET NEWS | February 03, 2010 [Police want backdoor to Web users' private data](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/2/3-1)
42- CNET NEWS | February 02, 2010 [Mozilla weighs privacy warnings for Web pages](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/2/2)
43- PC WORLD | January 29, 2010 [EFF: Browsers Can Leave a Unique Trail on the Web](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/1/29-0)
44- SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS | March 07, 2010 [Google's digital library faces key hurdles](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/3/7)
45- ASSOCIATED PRESS | March 02, 2010 [German court overturns law on phone, e-mail data](https://eff.org/press/mentions/0/0/0-10)
46- ABCNEWS.COM | February 22, 2010 [Is That a 'Black Box' in Your Car?](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/2/22-3)
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4548» [All Privacy News Articles](https://eff.org/related/384/mention)
4649
4750## Other Resources
4851
4952- [Google Book Search Settlement and Reader Privacy for Authors and Publishers](https://eff.org/issues/privacy/google-book-search-settlement-for-authors-and-publishers)
6063- May 01, 2008 [Protect Digital Privacy at the Border and Beyond](http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy)
6164- [Total Information Awareness (TIA)](http://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/)
6265- April 15, 2008 [Repeal the REAL ID Act](https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy)
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6467## Related Issues
6568
69- [Search Incident to Arrest](https://eff.org/issues/search-incident-arrest)
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71 EFF is helping courts apply this limited exception to the Fourth Amendment to warrantless searches of digital devices.
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6673- [Digital Books](https://eff.org/issues/digital-books)
6774- [Online Behavioral Tracking](https://eff.org/issues/online-behavioral-tracking)
6875- [Locational Privacy](https://eff.org/issues/location-privacy)
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7077 EFF is fighting to protect the privacy of this data that users of phones, GPS transmitters and location-based services leak to providers and to the government. In our cell tracking and GPS tracking cases, we advocate that the law protect this information by requiring police to get a search warrant before obtaining this sensitive data.
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7683
7784- [Cell Tracking](https://eff.org/issues/cell-tracking)
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7986 Can the government track your cell phone's location without probable cause?
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8188- [CALEA](https://eff.org/issues/calea)
82- [Travel Screening](https://eff.org/issues/travel-screening)
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84 Before you get on an airplane, the government wants to sift through the personal details of your life. If the data analysis says you're a security risk, too bad -- you may have no way of challenging the error.
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8690## Whitepapers
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8892- 2009 [On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever](https://eff.org/wp/locational-privacy)
8993- 2008 [Best Practices for Online Service Providers](https://eff.org/wp/osp)
9094- 2006 [Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy](https://eff.org/wp/six-tips-protect-your-search-privacy)
9195- 2005 [Investigating Machine Identification Code Technology in Color Laser Printers](https://eff.org/wp/investigating-machine-identification-code-technology-color-laser-printers)