Tim Cushing reports: The Baltimore Police Department was an enthusiastic early adopter of cell site simulator technology. In 2015, a Baltimore detective admitted the department had deployed its collection of cell tower spoofers 4,300 times since 2007. The best estimate on how many of those 4,300 deployments ever showed up in [Read More…]
Jennifer Lynch of EFF writes: Should the fact that your neighbors can see the outside of your house mean the police can use a camera to record everything that happens there for more than five months? We don’t think so either. That’s why we joined ACLU, ACLU of Massachusetts, and [Read More…]
Laura J. Nelson reports: For nearly a year, Uber has been fighting a rule that requires all companies to share real-time data on each scooter and shared bicycle trip taken in the city of Los Angeles. The Silicon Valley giant, which owns the scooter and bike company Jump, escalated that battle on [Read More…]
Joe Cadillic has been in overdrive, trying to keep us all informed about threats to our privacy and civil liberties. I can’t even keep up with all the links he sends me during the course of a day, so I thought that this week, I would just give you a [Read More…]