Federal Judge Upholds Arizonans’ Right to Record the Police
By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz The Arizona legislature last year passed a law (H.B. 2319 codified at A.R.S. § 13-3732) banning the video recording…
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Federal Judge Makes History in Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant
By Sophia Cope With United States v. Smith (S.D.N.Y. May 11, 2023), a district court judge in New York made history by being the first…
The STOP CSAM Act Would Put Security and Free Speech at Risk
By Mario Trujillo, by Andrew Crocker, by Sophia Cope A new U.S. Senate bill introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the internet….
Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops
By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz In a partial victory for police accountability, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that the…
First Circuit Affirms School’s Punishment of Students for Online Social Media Posts
By Sophia Cope The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a public school’s punishment of students for speech posted on social media….
Come Back with a Warrant: Congress Should Pass the Protecting Data at the Border Act
By Chao Liu and Sophia Cope We do not lose our constitutional rights at the border. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), however, believes…
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Public School Students’ Off-Campus Speech Rights
By Sophia Cope and Naomi Gilens In a win for freedom of speech, the U.S. Supreme Court held that public high school officials violated a…
First Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Secretly Audio Record the Police
By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz EFF applauds the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for holding that the First Amendment protects individuals…
EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Grant Immunity to Notorious Spyware Company
By Sophia Cope and Andrew Crocker EFF filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of WhatsApp’s lawsuit…
In Historic Opinion, Third Circuit Protects Public School Students’ Off-Campus Social Media Speech
By Sophia Cope The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an historic opinion in B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District, upholding the…
You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police
By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz Like the rest of the world, we are horrified by the videos of George Floyd’s murder. Once again, police…
Harvard Student’s Deportation Raises Concerns About Border Device Searches and Social Media Surveillance
By Saira Hussain and Sophia Cope Media outlets reported this week that an international student at Harvard University was deported back to Lebanon after border…
Ninth Circuit Goes a Step Further to Protect Privacy in Border Device Searches
By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a new ruling in U.S. v. Cano [.pdf] that…