Electronic Frontier Foundation
Community Associations |
Charitable & Nonprofit
815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109
Recent News About Electronic Frontier Foundation
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SACRAMENTO – The Civil Justice Association of California (CJAC) believes that a piece of state legislation requiring companies to divulge to people what data they collect would create an opportunity for frivolous litigation.
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SAN FRANCISCO – An act that requires companies to start telling people what data they collect has a solid advocate in the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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A representative for one of three social activist organizations suing the California Department of Justice said its collections procedure for DNA samples taken from people arrested and later cleared of wrongdoing is unconstitutional.
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An official for the nonprofit activist organization Equal Justice Society said a California Department of Justice practice of retaining DNA samples—taken from people arrested but who turned out to be innocent—targets African Americans.
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Plaintiffs suing the California Justice Department over its retention of DNA samples from people arrested but not convicted of felonies said erasing private evidence of the innocent should be made an automatic requirement.
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An attorney has filed a lawsuit in the San Francisco Superior Court against a government program he claims is collecting DNA from innocent people.
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SAN JOSE – A California court has deemed unenforceable a Canadian order directing Google to remove search results from all of its domains.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The California Supreme Court has largely upheld but remanded, the American Civil Liberties Union's license plate reader data request case.
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SAN DIEGO – California’s 4th Appellate Court on June 28 upheld the conviction of a lower court in the case of Kevin Bollaert, a man who ran what was known as a revenge porn website that posted nude photos and information about ex-girlfriends and personal enemies.
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SAN FRANCISCO – A San Francisco-based online home rental business has filed a lawsuit against the city regarding its attempts to enforce a housing law.
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SAN FRANCISCO – A recent lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California against Google, Facebook and Twitter raises questions about how far is too far for freedom of speech.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Federal judges are becoming more and more aware of the potential dangers that tactics known as “copyright trolling” pose to the public, according to a senior lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital rights.
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TYLER, Texas – Siri may be hearing the inside of a courtroom in the near future after Dot 23 filed a patent-violation suit against Apple Inc., based in Cupertino, over the voice-recognition and voice-dialing technology.
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OAKLAND – After eight years, a window of opportunity opened last month in Jewel v. NSA, a Fourth Amendment case involving the seizure of AT&T customers’ data by the National Security Agency.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The $9 million class-action lawsuit settlement agreed to by software developer Carrier IQ and several mobile phone manufacturers in a U.S. District Court in California looks very large, and it certainly impressed the judge in the case.
