Matthew Gault reports: This article was produced in collaboration with 404 Media, a new independent technology investigations site. A judge in Nevada has ruled that “tower dumps”—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still use the…
Category: Court
Another California Court Rejects Privacy Claims Targeting Online Chat Feature
Erin Moore and Matthew Verdin of Covington and Burling write: Plaintiffs’ lawyers have continued to bring privacy claims targeting businesses that use vendors to help provide beneficial chat features on their website, as we last reported here. Late last year, a Southern District of California judge dismissed another set of privacy claims challenging the routine use…
Judge Blocks Cities From Defending HHS Abortion Privacy Rule
Ian Lopez reports: A federal judge in Texas shot down a request from two liberal cities and a physician group to defend a Biden administration abortion rule in a lawsuit should the Trump administration drop out of the case. Doctors for America and the cities of Madison, Wis., and Columbus, Ohio, “fail to demonstrate a…
Our Privacy Act Lawsuit Against DOGE and OPM: Why a Judge Let It Move Forward
On April 9, Adam Schwartz of EFF wrote: Last week, a federal judge rejected the government’s motion to dismiss our Privacy Act lawsuit against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). OPM is disclosing to DOGE agents the highly sensitive personal information of tens of millions of federal employees, retirees, and…