The San Francisco Bay Guardian reports on the SF
Police Department's illegal laptop seizures, and EFF's
role in helping DJs and other party goers protect
their privacy and get their machines back.
Shortly after the Halloween incident, Miller and
the two other DJs who were at the party contacted
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit
advocacy group specializing in technology and
privacy issues. Jennifer Granick, a civil liberties
lawyer with EFF, said most people haven't heard
about this because few of these DJs, if any, ever
get convicted of a crime.
"DJs and the police department know that sound
equipment and laptops are being unlawfully seized.
But the public and the courts haven't heard much
about it because every time a DJ asks for a hearing,
the cops just give them their property back rather
than show up and defend the practice in open court
before a judge," she said.
