Issues: Privacy

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 **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.**
 ## Litigation
 - [Warshak v. United States](https://eff.org/cases/warshak-v-united-sta)
+- [FOIA: Social Networking Monitoring](https://eff.org/foia/social-network-monitoring)
+    EFF, along with students from the Samuelson Clinic at UC Berkeley, filed suit against a half-dozen government agencies seeking their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance.
 - [In Re: Matter of Search Warrant (Boston College)](https://eff.org/cases/re-matter-search-warrant-boston-college)
 - [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.
 - [Long Haul v Regents of the University of California](https://eff.org/cases/long-haul-v-regents-university-california)
     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.
+- [FOIA: Social Networking Monitoring](https://eff.org/foia/social-network-monitoring)
+    EFF, along with students from the Samuelson Clinic at UC Berkeley, filed suit against a half-dozen government agencies seeking their policies for using social networking sites for investigations, data-collection, and surveillance.
 - [San Mateo Court Litigation](https://eff.org/cases/san-mateo)
     EFF has urged a California state court to suppress evidence gathered by law enforcement from a suspect's iPhone during a warrantless search, including phone book contacts, called phone numbers, emails, text messages, Internet search history, and photos.
+- [FOIA: Records on PATRIOT Act Use and Misuse](https://eff.org/foia/foia-records-patriot-act-use-and-misuse)
+- [City of Ontario v. Quon](https://eff.org/cases/city-ontario-v-quon)
+- [Hersh v. Cohen](https://eff.org/cases/hersh-v-cohen)
+    EFF filed suit against the DOJ, demanding FBI records on effectiveness, lawfulness, and potential misuse of three controversial PATRIOT Act surveillance provisions.
+- [In Re Application of the United States of America for an Order Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2703(d)](https://eff.org/cases/re-application-united-states-america-order)
 » [All Privacy Cases](https://eff.org/related/384/case)
 ## In The News
+- SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS | June 24, 2010 [Facebook to hire White House Economic Council's chief of staff](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/6/24-1)
+- WALL STREET JOURNAL BLOG | June 25, 2010 [Facebook Staffs Up On Public Policy](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/6/25)
+- PBS | June 22, 2010 [With Location-Tracking Technology, Cell Users Paying Price of Privacy](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/6/22-3)
+- BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK | July 08, 2010 [The FTC Takes on the Spam Dispensers](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/7/8-0)
+- TECHNEWS WORLD | July 08, 2010 [Report: NSA Heads Up 'Perfect' Plan to Hunt Down Cyberthreats](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/7/8)
+- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE | July 06, 2010 [Erasing all digital footprints 'impossible'](https://eff.org/press/mentions/2010/6/6-1)
 » [All Privacy News Articles](https://eff.org/related/384/mention)
 ## Other Resources
 - [HTTPS Everywhere FAQ](https://eff.org/https-everywhere/faq)
 - [Privacy Software: Tor](http://tor.eff.org/)
 - April 15, 2008 [Repeal the REAL ID Act](https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy)
 - [Total Information Awareness (TIA)](http://www.eff.org/Privacy/TIA/)
 ## Related Issues
+- [National Security Letters](https://eff.org/issues/national-security-letters)
 - [International Privacy Standards](https://eff.org/issues/international-privacy-standards)
     Here is a list of international accords related to privacy that serve as the foundation for national laws, policy frameworks and international agreements throughout the world.
 - [Social Networks](https://eff.org/issues/social-networks)
 - [Search Incident to Arrest](https://eff.org/issues/search-incident-arrest)
 - [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)
+    Threatening Your Privacy Through an Unfunded Government Mandate
 ## 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)