Privacy News & Issues
Andrew Crocker writes: In a major decision on Friday, the federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment.” Closely following arguments EFF has made in a number of cases, the court found that geofence warrants constitute the sort of “general, exploratory rummaging” that the drafters of the Fourth Amendment intended to outlaw. EFF…
A breach of National Public Data first announced in April is making news again in August as lawsuits start to pile on. The data breach may be one of the biggest breaches affecting Americans, Canadians, and UK persons. If you never heard of National Public Data, do not breathe a quick sigh of relief. You…
Katitza Rodriguez of EFF writes: This is the third post in a series highlighting flaws in the proposed UN Cybercrime Convention. Check out Part I, our detailed analysis on the criminalization of security research activities, and Part II, an analysis of the human rights safeguards. As we near the final negotiating session for the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty, countries are…
On behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice sued video-sharing platform TikTok, its parent company ByteDance, as well as its affiliated companies, with flagrantly violating a children’s privacy law—the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act—and also alleged they infringed an existing FTC 2019 consent order against TikTok for violating COPPA. The complaint alleges defendants failed to comply…