SIDE A : DJs Win Laptops Back

  12/01/2009

Following a hearing in the San Francisco Superior Court today, DJs and party guests Justin Credible and Matthew Higgins had their illegally seized laptops returned to them.
 

 
  Police Seize DJ's Laptops

  11/24/2009

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.
 


 
  Laptop Seizures at Customs Raise Outcry

06/26/2008


Bill Hogan was returning home to the U.S. from Germany in February when a customs agent at Dulles International Airport pulled him aside. He could reenter the country, she told him. But his laptop couldn't.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents said he had been chosen for "random inspection of electronic media," and kept his computer for about two weeks, recalled Hogan, 55, a freelance journalist from Falls Church, Va.

Fortunately, it was a spare computer that had little important information. But Hogan felt violated.

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Said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, "People keep their lives on these devices: diaries, personal mail, financial records, family photos. . . . The government should not be able to read this information."
 
  Debate Over Laptop Seizures Heats Up  


The question as to whether border agents and investigators have the right to snoop through travelers' laptops as they enter the United States is stirring up even more controversy...
 

 
  SF Cops May Have Gone too Far...     11/16/2009

San Francisco DJs at underground parties in SOMA are claiming that their equipment is being unfairly seized, and in some cases being held beyond a reasonable amount of time, by the San Francisco Police Department. A national electronic-rights organization is investigating the claims.