Issues: Privacy
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| 13 | 13 | EFF 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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| 15 | 15 | **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.** |
| 16 | 16 | |
| 17 | 17 | ## Litigation |
| 18 | 18 | |
| 19 | - [Warshak v. United States](https://eff.org/cases/warshak-v-united-sta) | |
| 19 | 20 | - [In Re: Matter of Search Warrant (Boston College)](https://eff.org/cases/re-matter-search-warrant-boston-college) |
| 20 | 21 | - [US v Jones](https://eff.org/cases/us-v-jones) |
| 21 | 22 | |
| 22 | 23 | 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. |
| 23 | 24 | |
| 24 | 25 | - [Long Haul v Regents of the University of California](https://eff.org/cases/long-haul-v-regents-university-california) |
| 25 | 26 | |
| 26 | 27 | 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. |
| 27 | 28 | |
| 28 | - [Echostar v. Freetech](https://eff.org/cases/echostar-v-freetech) | |
| 29 | - [Warshak v. United States](https://eff.org/cases/warshak-v-united-sta) | |
| 30 | 29 | - [FOIA: Social Networking Monitoring](https://eff.org/foia/social-network-monitoring) |
| 31 | 30 | |
| 32 | 31 | 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. |
| 33 | 32 | |
| 33 | - [San Mateo Court Litigation](https://eff.org/cases/san-mateo) | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | 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. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | - [FOIA: Records on PATRIOT Act Use and Misuse](https://eff.org/foia/foia-records-patriot-act-use-and-misuse) | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | EFF filed suit against the DOJ, demanding FBI records on effectiveness, lawfulness, and potential misuse of three controversial PATRIOT Act surveillance provisions. | |
| 40 | ||
| 34 | 41 | - [In Re Application of the United States of America for an Order Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2703(d)](https://eff.org/cases/re-application-united-states-america-order) |
| 35 | - [Rehberg v. Hodges](https://eff.org/cases/rehberg-v-hodges) | |
| 36 | 42 | |
| 37 | 43 | » [All Privacy Cases](https://eff.org/related/384/case) |
| 38 | 44 | |
| 39 | 45 | ## In The News |
| 40 | 46 | |
| 41 | - COMPUTING NOW - IEEE | April 05, 2010 [Browser Fingerprints Threaten Privacy](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/4/5) | |
| 42 | - USA TODAY | April 27, 2010 [Senators Ask Facebook to Alter Feature that Shares Info](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/4/27-2) | |
| 43 | - CNN | May 03, 2010 ['Smart dust' aims to monitor everything](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/5/3) | |
| 47 | - THE ATLANTIC | June 08, 2010 [Closing the Digital Frontier](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/6/8-1) | |
| 48 | - ASSOCIATED PRESS | June 08, 2010 [Lawmakers crack down on prepaid cells, cite terror](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/6/8-0) | |
| 49 | - WIRED BLOG | June 08, 2010 [The Social Network Users' Bill of Rights](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/6/8) | |
| 44 | 50 | |
| 45 | 51 | » [All Privacy News Articles](https://eff.org/related/384/mention) |
| 46 | 52 | |
| 47 | 53 | ## Other Resources |
| 48 | 54 | |
| 55 | - [HTTPS Everywhere](https://eff.org/https-everywhere) | |
| 49 | 56 | - [Google Book Search Settlement and Reader Privacy for Authors and Publishers](https://eff.org/issues/privacy/google-book-search-settlement-for-authors-and-publishers) |
| 50 | 57 | - July 23, 2009 [Don't Let Google Close the Book on Reader Privacy](https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy) |
| 51 | 58 | - [TOSBack](https://eff.org/code/tosback) |
| 52 | 59 | - [Google Book Search Settlement and Reader Privacy](https://eff.org/issues/privacy/google-book-search-settlement) |
| 53 | 60 | - April 06, 2009 [Reform The PATRIOT Act: Stop Abuse of National Security Letters](https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy) |
| 54 | 61 | - February 03, 2009 [California Action Alert - Say No to Biometrics in CA Driver's Licenses](https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy) |
| 55 | 62 | - [MyTube - Limit the Privacy Risks of Embedded Video](https://eff.org/code/mytube) |
| 56 | 63 | - [EFF's Case Against AT&T](https://eff.org/nsa/hepting) |
| 57 | 64 | - June 20, 2008 [Tell The Senate to Vote Against Immunity](https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy) |
| 58 | 65 | - May 07, 2008 [Don't Let the Justice Department Harvest DNA from Innocents](https://eff.org/action/protectdna) |
| 59 | - [Privacy Software: Tor](http://tor.eff.org/) | |
| 60 | 66 | - May 01, 2008 [Protect Digital Privacy at the Border and Beyond](http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy) |
| 61 | - [Total Information Awareness (TIA)](http://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/) | |
| 67 | - [Privacy Software: Tor](http://tor.eff.org/) | |
| 62 | 68 | - April 15, 2008 [Repeal the REAL ID Act](https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy) |
| 69 | - [Total Information Awareness (TIA)](http://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/) | |
| 63 | 70 | |
| 64 | 71 | ## Related Issues |
| 65 | 72 | |
| 73 | - [International Privacy Standards](https://eff.org/issues/international-privacy-standards) | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | Here is a list of international accords related to privacy that serve as the foundation for national laws, policy frameworks and international agreements throughout the world. | |
| 76 | ||
| 66 | 77 | - [Social Networks](https://eff.org/issues/social-networks) |
| 67 | 78 | - [Search Incident to Arrest](https://eff.org/issues/search-incident-arrest) |
| 68 | 79 | |
| 69 | 80 | EFF is helping courts apply this limited exception to the Fourth Amendment to warrantless searches of digital devices. |
| 70 | 81 | |
| 71 | 82 | - [Digital Books](https://eff.org/issues/digital-books) |
| 76 | 87 | |
| 77 | 88 | - [Pen Trap](https://eff.org/issues/pen-trap) |
| 78 | 89 | - [Real ID](https://eff.org/issues/real-id) |
| 79 | 90 | |
| 80 | 91 | Threatening Your Privacy Through an Unfunded Government Mandate |
| 81 | 92 | |
| 82 | - [Cell Tracking](https://eff.org/issues/cell-tracking) | |
| 83 | ||
| 84 | Can the government track your cell phone's location without probable cause? | |
| 85 | ||
| 86 | 93 | ## Whitepapers |
| 87 | 94 | |
| 88 | 95 | - 2009 [On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever](https://eff.org/wp/locational-privacy) |
| 89 | 96 | - 2008 [Best Practices for Online Service Providers](https://eff.org/wp/osp) |
| 90 | 97 | - 2006 [Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy](https://eff.org/wp/six-tips-protect-your-search-privacy) |
| 91 | 98 | - 2005 [Investigating Machine Identification Code Technology in Color Laser Printers](https://eff.org/wp/investigating-machine-identification-code-technology-color-laser-printers) |