Adam Schwartz

Adam Schwartz is a Senior Staff Attorney with the EFF's civil liberties team.
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Views Tuesday, August 18, 2020 No to Expanded HHS Surveillance of COVID-19 Patients The federal government plans to process more of our personal data, in the name of containing COVID-19, but without showing that this serious privacy intrusion would actually do anything to protect public health. EFF filed comments in opposition to these new plans from the U.S. Department of Health... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 10, 2020 You Have a First Amendment Right to Record the Police Like the rest of the world, we are horrified by the videos of George Floyd’s murder. Once again, police brutality was documented by brave bystanders exercising their First Amendment rights. Their videos forcefully tell a painful truth that has further fueled a movement to demand an end to racism... Read more |
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Views Friday, February 02, 2018 Keep Border Spy Tech Out of Dreamer Protection Bills If Congress votes this month on legislation to protect Dreamers from deportation, any bill it considers should not include invasive surveillance technologies like biometric screening, social media snooping, automatic license plate readers, and drones. Such high tech spying would unduly intrude on... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 20, 2017 No Hunting Undocumented Immigrants With Stingrays In the latest sign of mission creep in domestic deployment of battlefield-strength surveillance technology, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this year used a cell site simulator (CSS) to locate and arrest an undocumented immigrant, according to a report yesterday by The... Read more |
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Views Friday, October 28, 2016 AT&T Requires Police to Hide Hemisphere Phone Spying AT&T built a powerful phone surveillance tool for police, called Hemisphere. Every day , AT&T adds four billion call records to Hemisphere, making it one of the largest known reservoirs of communications metadata that the government uses to spy on us. Law enforcement officials kept... Read more |