EFF: EFF Sues San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to Obtain Records About Use of Privacy Invasive Cell-Site Simulators
EFF Sues San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to Obtain Records About Use of Privacy Invasive Cell-Site Simulators EFF Investigating Compliance with CalECPA San Bernardino, California—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department today to gain access to records about search warrants where cell-site simulators , devices that allow police to locate and track people by tricking their cell phones into a connection, were authorized in criminal investigations. EFF seeks the records to investigate whether California law enforcement agencies are complying with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act ( CalECPA ). The law, co-sponsored by EFF and passed in 2015, protects Californians’ personal information by requiring police to obtain a warran t to access people’s digital records—such as emails and geographic location information stored on devices or in the cloud—and notify those whose records are being sought. Police c...