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"License plate tracking for police set to go nationwide," by Alfred Ng, CNET, August 18, 2020
"How Your Phone Is Used to Track You, and What You Can Do About It," by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, New York Times, August 19, 2020
"Civil Rights and First Amendment Defenders Urge First Circuit to Require a Warrant for Border Device Searches," by Saira Hussain, Adam Schwartz and Sophia Cope, Electronic Frontier Foundation, August 18, 2020
"Cellphone apps designed to track covid-19 spread struggle worldwide amid privacy concerns," by Craig Timberg, Steve Hendrix, Min Joo Kim and Fiona Weber-Steinhaus, Washington Post, August 18, 2020
"Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data from Apps, Contract Confirms," by Joseph Cox, VICE, August 17, 2020
"NYPD Used Facial Recognition Technology In Siege Of Black Lives Matter Activist’s Apartment," by George Joseph and Jake Offenhartz, Gothamist, August 14, 2020
"Search Warrants Can Require Defendants to Give Phone Passcode," by Joe Atmonavage, Governing, August 12, 2020
"Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality Of Border Patrol Checkpoints On I-93," by Todd Bookman, NHPR, August 11, 2020
"Facial Recognition Start-Up Mounts a First Amendment Defense in Privacy Suits," by Kashmir Hill, New York Times, August 11, 2020
"Witness Seized on Immigration Suspicions Can Pursue Lawsuit," by Brian Flood, Bloomberg Law, August 10, 2020
"Police built an AI to predict violent crime. It was seriously flawed," by Matt Burgess, WIRED, August 06, 2020
"The latest FISA findings are reassuring. Given the potential for abuse, continuing accountability is essential.," by Editorial Board, Washington Post, August 06, 2020
"Protester Surveillance May Test Constitutional Privacy in Courts," by Julia Weng and Daniel R. Stoller, Bloomberg Law, August 04, 2020
"Why a Data Breach at a Genealogy Site Has Privacy Experts Worried," by Heather Murphy, New York Times, August 01, 2020
"Lawmaker questions Google's CEO about geofence warrants," by Alfred Ng, CNET, July 29, 2020
