Issues: Privacy

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 Privacy rights are enshrined in our Constitution for a reason - a thriving democracy requires respect for individuals' autonomy as well as anonymous speech and association. These rights must be balanced against legitimate concerns like law enforcement, but checks must be put in place to prevent abuse of government powers.
 EFF fights in the courts and Congress to extend your privacy rights into the digital world, and supports the development of privacy-protecting technologies. Donate to EFF to help support our efforts.
 **For information about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, check out EFF's [Surveillance Self-Defense](http://ssd.eff.org/) project.**
+## Privacy Cases
+## Litigation
 - [Echostar v. Freetech](https://eff.org/cases/echostar-v-freetech)
 - [Bunnell v. MPAA](https://eff.org/cases/bunnell-v-mpaa)
 - [Internet Archive et al v Mukasey et al](https://eff.org/cases/archive-v-mukasey)
     In December 2007, the Internet Archive, along with its counsel the ACLU and EFF, filed a lawsuit challenging a national security letter issued to the Archive.
     EFF and the ACLU of Northern California filed suit in federal court on January 14, 2009 to protect the privacy and free speech rights of two San Francisco Bay Area community organizations after the groups' computers were seized and the data copied by federal and local law enforcement.
 - [US v Jones](https://eff.org/cases/us-v-jones)
     EFF has urged a U.S. appeals court to reject government claims that federal agents have an unfettered right to install Global Positioning System (GPS) location-tracking devices on anyone's car without a warrant.
+- [FOIA: Social Neworking Monitoring](https://eff.org/foia/social-nework-monitoring)
 - [Warshak v. United States](https://eff.org/cases/warshak-v-united-sta)
 - [In Re: Matter of Search Warrant (Boston College)](https://eff.org/cases/re-matter-search-warrant-boston-college)
+- [NSA Multi-District Litigation](https://eff.org/cases/att)
+    Documents relating to all cases.
 » [All Privacy Cases](https://eff.org/related/384/case)
 ## In The News
+- LIBRARY JOURNAL | November 16, 2009 [Google Book Search Database Halved By Removing Most Foreign Texts](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2009/11/16-2)
+- FOXNEWS.COM | November 12, 2009 [Web Site Says Justice Department Demanded It Secretly Turn Over Readers' Information](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2009/11/12-2)
+- CBSNEWS.COM | November 09, 2009 [Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2009/11/9-2)
+- LOS ANGELES TIMES | December 17, 2009 [Homeland Security rescinds Nation of Islam intelligence analysis](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2009/12/17-0)
+- NEW YORK TIMES | December 16, 2009 [Intelligence Improperly Collected on U.S. Citizens](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2009/12/16-0)
+- WASHINGTON POST | December 17, 2009 [Documents show DHS improperly spied on Nation of Islam in 2007](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2009/12/17)
 » [All Privacy News Articles](https://eff.org/related/384/mention)
 ## Other Resources
 - [Google Book Search Settlement and Reader Privacy for Authors and Publishers](https://eff.org/issues/privacy/google-book-search-settlement-for-authors-and-publishers)
 - May 01, 2008 [Protect Digital Privacy at the Border and Beyond](http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy)
 - [Total Information Awareness (TIA)](http://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/)
 - April 15, 2008 [Repeal the REAL ID Act](https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy)
 ## Related Issues
+- [Online Behavioral Tracking](https://eff.org/issues/online-behavioral-tracking)
 - [Locational Privacy](https://eff.org/issues/location-privacy)
     EFF is fighting to protect the privacy of this data that users of phones, GPS transmitters and location-based services leak to providers and to the government. In our cell tracking and GPS tracking cases, we advocate that the law protect this information by requiring police to get a search warrant before obtaining this sensitive data.
 - [Pen Trap](https://eff.org/issues/pen-trap)
 - [Real ID](https://eff.org/issues/real-id)
     Before you get on an airplane, the government wants to sift through the personal details of your life. If the data analysis says you're a security risk, too bad -- you may have no way of challenging the error.
 - [Search Engines](https://eff.org/issues/search-engines)
     Learn about search engine privacy issues.
+- [RFID](https://eff.org/issues/rfid)
+    Radio Frequency Identification
 ## Whitepapers
 - 2009 [On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever](https://eff.org/wp/locational-privacy)
 - 2008 [Best Practices for Online Service Providers](https://eff.org/wp/osp)
 - 2006 [Six Tips to Protect Your Search Privacy](https://eff.org/wp/six-tips-protect-your-search-privacy)
 - 2005 [Investigating Machine Identification Code Technology in Color Laser Printers](https://eff.org/wp/investigating-machine-identification-code-technology-color-laser-printers)