Issues: Privacy

ARCHIVED 2010-09-03, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20100903_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20100803_rev01

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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- [Warshak v. United States](https://eff.org/cases/warshak-v-united-sta)
2019- [FOIA: Social Networking Monitoring](https://eff.org/foia/social-network-monitoring)
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2221 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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23- [San Mateo Court Litigation](https://eff.org/cases/san-mateo)
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25 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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27- [Warshak v. United States](https://eff.org/cases/warshak-v-united-sta)
2428- [In Re: Matter of Search Warrant (Boston College)](https://eff.org/cases/re-matter-search-warrant-boston-college)
2529- [US v Jones](https://eff.org/cases/us-v-jones)
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2731 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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29- [Long Haul v Regents of the University of California](https://eff.org/cases/long-haul-v-regents-university-california)
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31 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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33- [San Mateo Court Litigation](https://eff.org/cases/san-mateo)
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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.
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3733- [City of Ontario v. Quon](https://eff.org/cases/city-ontario-v-quon)
38- [Hersh v. Cohen](https://eff.org/cases/hersh-v-cohen)
34- [Rehberg v. Hodges](https://eff.org/cases/rehberg-v-hodges)
35- [NASA v. Nelson](https://eff.org/cases/nasa-v-nelson)
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4037» [All Privacy Cases](https://eff.org/related/384/case)
4138
4239## In The News
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44- BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK | July 08, 2010 [The FTC Takes on the Spam Dispensers](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/7/8-0)
45- TECHNEWS WORLD | July 08, 2010 [Report: NSA Heads Up 'Perfect' Plan to Hunt Down Cyberthreats](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/7/8)
46- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | July 06, 2010 [Erasing all digital footprints 'impossible'](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/6/6-1)
41- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | August 30, 2010 [Facebook Places and other privacy threats](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/8/30)
42- SLATE | August 27, 2010 [The Internet's Secret Back Door](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/8/27)
43- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | August 25, 2010 [Experts advise caution using Facebook Places](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/8/25)
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4845» [All Privacy News Articles](https://eff.org/related/384/mention)
4946
5047## Other Resources
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5249- [HTTPS Everywhere FAQ](https://eff.org/https-everywhere/faq)