SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records about a multi-million dollar, secretive program that surveils immigrants and other foreign visitors’ speech on social media. DHS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) use the Visa Lifestyle Vetting Initiative (VLVI)…
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Court Won’t Hear Merits of EPIC Suit Challenging Secret Postal Service Surveillance Program
From EPIC.org: A federal district court on Friday dismissed EPIC’s lawsuit challenging a secret surveillance program run out of the law enforcement wing of the Postal Service, reasoning that EPIC did not suffer a “cognizable injury in fact” from the Service’s unlawful refusal to disclose information about the program. In EPIC v. USPS, EPIC is seeking to enforce…
This Database Stores the DNA of 31,000 New Yorkers. Is It Illegal?
Troy Closson reports: Three years ago, Shakira Leslie was returning home from a cousin’s birthday party in the Bronx when officers pulled over her friend’s car for a traffic infraction. After she got out of the back seat, the police searched her and found nothing illegal. […] weeks later, Ms. Leslie learned new details about…
A Comprehensive Privacy Law May Be Heading for Massachusetts, And Businesses Should Prepare
This post was originally published on the MassTLC Blog. Get ready: there’s a good chance that comprehensive data privacy legislation is coming to the Commonwealth. If your business is not already compliant with the European Union’s or UK’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), then you might have some work…