Electronic Frontier Foundation Archives - Cop Block

Court Documents Reveal Feds Demanded Finger Prints To Open Phones During Raid

October 18, 2016 Asa J 689 Views Accountability, biometric data, biometric information, California, Central District of California, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Court documents, Department of Justice, digital device, Electronic Frontier Foundation, encryption keys, federal agents, federal raid, finger print raid, fingerprints, FORBES, fourth amendment, iphone, Jennifer Lynch, lancaster, Legal experts, Marina Medvin, Medvin Law, passwords, Police State, smartphone, thumbprints, unreasonable search, warrant

Court documents have revealed that federal agents attempted to bypass iPhone security measures by demanding individuals’ biometric information to open the

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Articles Police Abuse

A Touch Of Dystopia: Milwaukee Police Hid Stingray Use From Courts, Says ACLU

February 20, 2016February 20, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1024 Views 7th circuit court of appeals, Accountability, ACLU, america, american civil liberties union, American police culture, amicus brief, blog, Brutality, cell phone data, Civil rights, comment, constitution, cop block, copblock.org, cops, Corruption, courts, data collection, Department of Justice, discuss, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, dystopia, Ed Flynn, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, encouraging police to prey on the people, excessive force, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, federal probe, federal program, freedom, fugitive, Harassment, illegal, Illegal search/entry, insanity by definition, intelligence cop, jail, journalism, judge, Justice System, milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, milwaukee police, monitoring, MPD, news, no victim no crime, nondisclosure agreement, oddly vague language, orwellian, overuse, phone tracking, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police industrial complex, Police State, politics, PR event, prison industrial complex, rights, scrutinous pressure, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, share, stingrays, streamlining convictions, strike the root, subverting the courts, Surveillance, surveillance state, sustainable democratic models, Transparency, undisclosed Stingray use, unethical, Update, warrantless data collection, Warrior Cop, wi, Wisconsin, wisconsin police, writing

Scrutinous pressure continues to bury Milwaukee’s police department despite its recent DOJ-sponsored public forum. Days later, the ACLU blasted the

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Small Texas Town Banks $2.1M Thanks To New License Plate Readers

February 8, 2016February 8, 2016 Asa J 686 Views automatic license plate readers, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, corporate-fascism, Electronic Frontier Foundation, fascist, highway robbers, jefferson county, legal plunder, legalized plunder, license plate readers, no victim no crime, Police State, Port Arthur, Port Arthur police, Port Arthur police department, road pirates, Statistic Brain Research Institute, Surveillance, surveillance technology, Texas, Traffic Enforcement Unit, Vigilant Solutions

In a case of a road pirates wet dream come true, the small Texas town of Port Arthur has increased its

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Paying To Add Your DNA To a Government Database via Ancestry.com and 23andMe

October 31, 2015October 31, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 3244 Views 23andMe, Accountability, Ancestry.com, big brother, big brother is watching, civil liberties, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, crazy conspiracy, database, Dishonesty, DNA, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, filmmaker, freedom, Fusion.net, genealogy, government funded DNA databases, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, Justice System, kelly patterson, Michael Usry, murder, new orleans, New Orleans Advocate, NYU law, police, Police State, Privacy, private genetic databases, Professor Erin Murphy, rape kit, rights, totally reasonable steps by law enforcement, Transparency, video, wild goose chase, Wired

Normally, Big Brother has to go through the hassle of getting a warrant and establishing some sort of probable cause

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Articles Original Content

The Future Of Internet Freedom To Be Decided By CISA Vote

October 22, 2015October 22, 2015 Asa J 685 Views 1st St. NE, Apple, BAS, Business Software Alliance, CCIA, CIA, CISA, CISPA, Computer and Communications Industry Association, copblock, copblock.org, Cyber-Security Information Sharing Act, cybersecurity, Debunking Myths about Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, Dept. of Commerce, Dept. of Defense, Dept. of Homeland Security, Dept. of the Treasury, DHS, Director John Brennan, Doug Maughan, Dropbox, East Capitol St. NE, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Experian, FBI, FCC, Fight for the future of the internet, Google, internet freedom, internet privacy, NSA, online freedom, online privacy, OPM, Passcode, Privacy, privacy protections, protest, reddit, Save The Internet, Secretary Jeh Johnson, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Sen. Richard Burr, Senate vote, Snowden leaks, Stored Communications Act, Surveillance, surveillance bill, surveillance state, Twitter, U.S. Congress, Washington D.C., Yelp

The future of internet freedom hangs in the balance as the Senate is poised to vote on the Cyber-Security Information

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Microsoft Vs. DOJ – Feds Argue They Can Demand Emails From Anyone In The World

September 10, 2015March 1, 2016 Asa J 609 Views Apple, Attorney Lee Tien, Brad Smith, business records, Cisco, copblock, copblock.org, data collection, Department of Justice, drug trafficking investigation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, emails, Executive Vice President for Legal and Corporate Affairs, federal court case, foreign emails, fox news, Government of Ireland, Hotmail, international law, Ireland, microsoft, Microsoft General Counsel, Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith, national sovereignty, NPR, Redmond Washington, search warrant, Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Snowden leaks, Surveillance, The Guardian, three-judge panel, verizon, Washington

A monumental court case resumed Wednesday between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice that will set critical precedent in

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On Freedom of Information Act Requests

December 18, 2013January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 988 Views cop block, copblock.org, Electronic Frontier Foundation, foia, Freedom of Information Act, public records request, reporters committee for freedom of the press, society of professional journalists, the foia project, Transparency, video

This video is admittedly not the most dynamic or awe-inspiring but I thought it worthwhile to put-together a video about

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Improve your online security with the HTTPS Everywhere plugin for Firefox

August 7, 2011May 9, 2013 CopBlock 374 Views Electronic Frontier Foundation, Encryption, Firefox, Internet security, Online security, Privacy, strike the root

By installing HTTPS Everywhere, your web browser will automatically encrypt connections to websites that have the option thereby enhancing your online privacy and security.

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