New York County Faces Lawsuit Over Camera Network Tracking Millions of Drivers

A coalition of civil rights groups has filed a class action lawsuit against Westchester County, New York, challenging its massive license plate reader program as an unconstitutional surveillance system. The county has deployed nearly 600 license plate reader cameras that have collected about 1.6 billion scans of vehicles traveling through the suburban county just north […]
U.S. Spy Law Nears Deadline Amid Fight Over Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Data

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, one of the most important U.S. surveillance authorities, is set to expire on June 12, 2026, unless Congress renews it. The law allows U.S. intelligence agencies, including the NSA, FBI and CIA, to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign individuals located outside the United States with help from […]