Although the AI-generated surveillance of the public has been paused, the program continues to send automatic alerts to the Louisiana State Police and federal authorities.
The Big Sky State becomes the first to close the "data broker loophole" allowing the government to get private information without a warrant.
A Supreme Court case could determine whether Americans own their digital data—or whether the government can take that information without a warrant.
Congress just approved a new online censorship scheme under the auspices of thwarting revenge porn and AI-generated "nonconsensual intimate visual depictions."
The feds are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across spy agencies. What could go wrong?
Schools across the country are gathering personal information and putting students' privacy at risk.
Detroit lawyer Amir Makled has confidential client data on his phone. That didn’t stop U.S. Customs and Border Protection from trying to search it.
Know how much the law does—and doesn’t—protect your privacy rights.
Popular encryption apps are probably secure if government officials rely on them.
And you shouldn't be panicked into doing it either.
The court leaves open, though, the possibility that a narrower challenge aimed just at restrooms with closed stalls, where students wouldn't generally be partly or fully undressed where others can see them.
Central bank digital currencies would destroy any chance for financial privacy, but society is willingly moving in that direction.
Already this year, the agency has allegedly conducted a warrantless raid in Newark and several warrantless arrests in the Midwest.
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
Last month, the U.K. reportedly demanded access to any Apple user's data anywhere in the world. Paul wants to know if any other companies have received similar orders recently.
No, not even if you do it in a county that borders Mexico.
The bill is a "law against criticism of any kind," according to a lawyer who testified against it.
At least not if the goal is keeping minors from viewing porn.
If enacted, the order would weaken digital security for Apple users throughout the U.K.
So the Missouri Court of Appeals concludes, in allowing a negligence/design defect case to proceed against Lyft, based on a driver's having been murdered by riders who "fraudulently and anonymously request[ed]" a ride.
A federal magistrate judge flags the issue, though doesn't purport to resolve it.
The newly confirmed head of the country's leading law enforcement agency has a history of advocating politically motivated investigations even while condemning them.
Citing Reddit posts and podcast interviews, pseudonymous government employees are arguing that DOGE violated federal privacy regulations when setting up a government-wide email system.
The reported order from Britain's Home Office is further proof that governments pose a greater privacy risk than corporations.
Nearly a dozen lawsuits allege that DOGE's access to government payment and personnel systems violates a litany of federal privacy and record-handling laws.
Public records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show how sensitive police databases are used and abused.
The Bank Secrecy Act regime forces banks to report customers to the government for an ever-growing list of “red flags.”
A new crop of restrictive laws faces a friendly reception in the courts but ongoing public resistance.
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board should be Trump's ally in a battle against the deep state. So why is he undermining it?
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a Texas case that could have major ramifications across the country—including, perhaps, the end of anonymity online.
Some IRS offices routinely threw away sensitive material with regular trash, while others used unlocked or damaged storage bins.
Proponents call it modernization, but watchdogs see a path to censorship.
Lee says this is about "sexual and violent content." It goes far beyond that.
Administrators say AI surveillance tech helps struggling students get care. But false alarms are common.
The Ninth Circuit upholds defendant’s conviction.
David McKnight and Julian Alcala were accused of separate plots to steal sexually explicit photos from women's phones during traffic stops.
The heart of our argument for a preliminary injunction in First Amendment Coalition, LaRoe & Volokh v. Chiu.
We're challenging a California statute that bans publishing "information relating to a sealed arrest."
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