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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare It,Share ItThis week we learned that San Francisco Police used a woman’s own DNA—collected years earlier as part of an investigation into her sexual assault—to charge her for an unrelated property crime. What’s worse—it appears the S.F. police routinely search victims’ DNA in criminal investigations.Marking a big win for the privacy and civil liberties of immigrant communities, the Biden Administration recently a Trump-era proposed rule that would have massively expanded the collection of biometrics from people applying for an immigration benefit. Introduced in September 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...Last week, Maryland and Montana passed laws requiring judicial authorization to search consumer DNA databases in criminal investigations. These are welcome and important restrictions on forensic genetic genealogy searching (FGGS)—a law enforcement technique that has become increasingly common and impacts the genetic privacy of millions of Americans.Consumer personal genetics companies...Along with the ACLU of Pennsylvania, we filed an amicus brief in the United States District Court for Western Pennsylvania explaining that secret forensic technology is inconsistent with criminal defendants’ constitutional rights and the public’s right to oversee the criminal trial process. We also explain why source code, and other...EFF, joined by several leading civil liberties and immigrant rights organizations, recently filed a calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to withdraw a that would exponentially expand biometrics collection from both U.S. citizens and noncitizens who apply for immigration benefits and would allow...The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) recently-issued requiring the collection of DNA from hundreds of thousands of individuals in immigration detention is a dangerous and unprecedented expansion of biometric screening based not on alleged conduct, but instead on immigration status. This type of forcible DNA collection erodes civil...This week, we filed an in a arguing that the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police from surreptitiously collecting our DNA without a warrant. This case is one of the first to challenge the collection of DNA from a free person after results of...Last year, the Supreme Court issued a in a case we’ve written about a lot, called Carpenter v. United States, ruling that the Fourth Amendment protects data generated by our phones called historical cell-site location information or CSLI. The Court recognized that CSLI creates a “detailed chronicle...This week, GEDmatch, a genetic genealogy company that gained notoriety for giving law enforcement access to its customers’ DNA data, quietly its users it is now operated by Verogen, Inc., a company two years ago to market “next-generation [DNA] sequencing” technology to....As the number of migrants at the southern border has surged in the past several months, the Trump administration has turned to increasingly draconian measures as a form of deterrence. While the separation of children from their parents and housing of migrants in overcrowded and ill-equipped holding facilities have rightfully...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare It,Share ItThis week we learned that San Francisco Police used a woman’s own DNA—collected years earlier as part of an investigation into her sexual assault—to charge her for an unrelated property crime. What’s worse—it appears the S.F. police routinely search victims’ DNA in criminal investigations.Marking a big win for the privacy and civil liberties of immigrant communities, the Biden Administration recently a Trump-era proposed rule that would have massively expanded the collection of biometrics from people...

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EFF Challenges Surreptitious Collection of DNA at Iowa Supreme Court

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