by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Nov 18, 2022 | In the News
…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...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Nov 16, 2022 | In the News
…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...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Nov 16, 2022 | In the News
…”Many states and foreign countries have successfully deployed contact tracing apps by obtaining the consent of their citizens before downloading software onto their smartphones,” said Sheng Li, litigation counsel at the New Civil Liberties Alliance,...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Nov 15, 2022 | Press Releases
Washington, DC (November 15, 2022) – The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, has filed an amicus curiae brief in Allstates Refractory Contractors LLC v. Walsh, et al., challenging the constitutionality of the Occupational...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Nov 15, 2022 | COVID-19, Press Releases
Washington, DC (November 15, 2022) – The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) worked with Google to auto-install spyware on the smartphones of more than one million Commonwealth residents, without their knowledge or consent, in a misguided effort to combat...
