EFF has issued a press release about U.S. v. Jones, a case in the District Court for the District of Columbia: A federal district court is poised to determine whether the government can use cell phone data obtained without a warrant to establish an individual’s location. In an amicus brief filed Monday, the Electronic Frontier…
EPIC: Voters Should Be Wary of 2012 Election Apps
From EPIC.org: EPIC has released a report, “Smartphones and the 2012 Election,” which focuses on the potential risks to voters who download election-related apps to their smartphones and tablets. The report contends that these apps promote greater citizen participation in e-democracy, but also may contain malware, disseminate false information — or, as was recently reported about an…
Anatomy of a Privacy Victim
Stewart Baker writes: Adam Mueller, a police-the-police campaigner, has been convicted and sentenced to three months in jail for recording and posting telephone conversations with a police captain, a high school principal and a school secretary in Manchester, NH. Mueller was calling for comment on a student’s cell phone video allegedly showing a Manchester officer using excessive…
Email Privacy Pioneer Launches Silent Circle To Protect Mobile, Internet Calls
An Internet privacy veteran and inventor of a popular email encryption scheme is launching a suite of new products next month that will allow people to scramble their mobile phone calls, e-mails, text messages and Internet voice and video calls. Phil Zimmermann, creator of the standard email encryption known as PGP, which stands for ‘Pretty Good Privacy’,…