EFF fights for cell phone users' privacy

Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release

For Immediate Release: Monday, February 08, 2010

Contact:

Kevin Bankston
   Senior Staff Attorney
   Electronic Frontier Foundation
   bankston@eff.org
   +1 415 436-9333 x126

Jennifer Stisa Granick
   Civil Liberties Director
   Electronic Frontier Foundation
   jennifer@eff.org
   +1 415 436-9333 x134

Rebecca Jeschke
   Media Relations Director
   Electronic Frontier Foundation
   press@eff.org
   +1 415 436-9333 x125

EFF Fights for Cell Phone Users' Privacy in Thursday
Hearing

Government Should Come Back With a Warrant If It Wants
Location Information

Philadelphia - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
will be arguing this Thursday before the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, urging the
court to block a government attempt to seize telephone
company records detailing a cell phone user's past
locations without first getting a search warrant.

EFF is serving as a friend of the court or "amicus," joined
by co-amici the ACLU, the ACLU of Pennsylvania, and the
Center for Democracy & Technology.  Professor Susan
Freiwald of the University of San Francisco, who submitted
a separate amicus brief to the panel, will be joining EFF
Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston in arguing on Thursday
that federal privacy statutes in combination with the
Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protect the
privacy of cell phone users and require the government to
show probable cause before obtaining cell phone location
information.

WHAT:
Oral argument In the Matter of the Application of the
United States of America for an Order Directing a Provider
of Electronic Communication Service to Disclose Records to
the Government

WHEN:
Thursday, February 11th
9:30am

WHERE:
Albert Branson Maris Courtroom (19th floor)
U.S. Courthouse
601 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19106

For more information on attending Thursday's hearing,
contact press@eff.org.

For the full EFF amicus brief to the Third Circuit:
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/celltracking/Filed%20Ce... 


For more on the issue of cell phone tracking:
http://www.eff.org/issues/cell-tracking

For this release:
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2010/02/08

About EFF

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil
liberties organization working to protect rights in the
digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and
challenges industry and government to support free
expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported
organization and maintains one of the most linked-to
websites in the world at http://www.eff.org/


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