[liberationtech] FW: Google Sign-On Letter - Improving Warrant Disclosures

[Todd Davies]

From: digital_assembly_network <digital_assembly_network-bounces at lists.stanford.edu> on behalf of Albert Fox Cahn <Albert at stopspying.org>
Date: Friday, November 20, 2020 at 7:24 AM
To: "digital_assembly_network at lists.stanford.edu" <digital_assembly_network at lists.stanford.edu>
Cc: Fabian Rogers <Fabian at stopspying.org>
Subject: [digital_assembly_network] Google Sign-On Letter - Improving Warrant Disclosures



All (apologies for cross posting),



We’re working with the Privacy NY coalition and other groups to gather support for a sign-on letter to Google, asking that the company improve its transparency around novel types of search warrants. Currently, Google’s transparency report<https://transparencyreport.google.com/> lists the total number of warrants it receives in each country, but it doesn’t divulge the number of geofence<https://onezero.medium.com/googles-geofence-warrants-face-a-major-legal-challenge-ac6da1408fba?gi=sd> and keyword search warrants<https://www.cnet.com/news/google-is-giving-data-to-police-based-on-search-keywords-court-docs-show/> it receives. Geofence and keyword warrants pose a unique threat to civil rights and privacy, and additional disclosures would significantly improve our advocacy campaigns to ban these warrants.



Please sign on to our letter by COB on Tuesday, December 2nd. The text of the sign-on letter is available here<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fAcCA_fhP_H9dv6C8mSDADbXkagsOJol/edit>, and the sign on form can be accessed here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2MALnRrpcDqHM_UCqMGfLAFeKKga_jUYxnpzdYB5ZkyYv5A/viewform>. Please contact Fabian Rogers (fabian at stopspying.org<mailto:fabian at stopspying.org>) if you have any questions or concerns.



Best,

Albert





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Albert Fox Cahn, Esq.

Executive Director

Pronouns: he/his/him



Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

@ The Urban Justice Center

40 Rector Street, 9th Floor

New York, NY 10006

Tel. +1 (646) 602-5600 ext. 5652

Albert at StopSpying.org<mailto:Albert at StopSpying.org>

www.StopSpying.org<http://www.stopspying.org/>



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