Jennifer Granick of EFF writes: Following a hearing in the San Francisco Superior Court today, DJs and party guests Justin Credible and Matthew Higgins had their illegally seized laptops returned to them. This is great news, and a real relief to the pair who have been without their machines for over a month. It started…
Category: Surveillance
Judge Denies FBI Dismissal From Berkeley Raid Lawsuit
Michael Garcia reports: A federal judge denied a motion Monday to dismiss the FBI from a lawsuit filed by two Berkeley community organizations whose computers and storage devices were seized in an August 2008 raid. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled that plaintiffs Long Haul Inc. and East Bay Prisoner Support can sue the investigative…
Blog post on 8 million law enforcement requests causes online furor
Not surprisingly, Chris Soghoian’s blog post on law enforcement surveillance requests, mentioned here yesterday, has generated a huge buzz in the privacy and civil liberties communities. Chris had attended a closed door conference where members of the intelligence and law enforcement field met with those in the telecom and surveillance fields and had recorded some…
EFF sues for info about social-networking surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), working with the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Samuelson Clinic), filed suit today against a half-dozen government agencies for refusing to disclose their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance. Recent news reports have publicized…