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Health Care or Spyware? Lawsuit Attacks Mass. Covid-Tracking App

November 22, 2022
…Sheng Li, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance, said that this involuntary download policy violates the US Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, which forbids government agencies from taking a citizen’s property without just compensation. The memory inside a smartphone belongs to the owner, and “the government cannot take your property without giving you some sort…
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Judge Turns Down Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s Effort to Quash Subpoena

November 19, 2022
…“Ms. Psaki’s lawyers tried to argue that she is above the law and that her time is too precious to bother with such frivolities as a deposition in a First Amendment case. They persisted with this contention, although the judge presiding over the case in the Western District of Louisiana found that exceptional circumstances existed—specifically,…
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Can Joe Biden's Student Loan Cancellation Plan Survive the Supreme Court?

November 18, 2022
…”It would be difficult to predict how the Justices would rule on something as tricky as standing, especially given that each of the relevant States presents different theories about how they are injured,” Sheng Li, an attorney at the New Civil Liberties Alliance who authored an amicus brief challenging the debt relief program, wrote Newsweek in an…
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Massachusetts DPH, Google ‘Secretly’ Installed COVID ‘Spyware’ onto 1M Phones, Lawsuit Says

November 18, 2022
…The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit, filed a lawsuit this week in U.S. District Court on behalf of two Bay State Android users, who allege that a DPH contact tracing app was downloaded onto their phones on or around July 1, 2021, without their “permission or awareness.”…Read the full article
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Lawsuit Claims Massachusetts and Google Installed COVID-19 ‘Spyware’ on 1 Million Devices

November 18, 2022
…Plaintiffs Robert Wright and Johnny Kula were among 1 million Massachusetts residents who had the state’s “COVID Exposure Settings: US-MA” app auto-installed without their consent, according to the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), the nonpartisan civil rights group that filed the lawsuit (pdf) on Tuesday…Read the full article
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Mass. Health Officials Worked with Google to Covertly Install COVID ‘Spyware’ into 1M Phones, Lawsuit Claims

November 16, 2022
…In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a nonpartisan civil rights firm, accused the Bay State’s health department of “brazen disregard for civil liberties” by installing “spyware that deliberately tracks and records movement and personal contacts onto over a million mobile devices without their owners’ permission and awareness.” The class-action suit…
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