The Hepting Case: Privacy Issues and Implications

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Lab Report File: Legal Regulation and Compliance
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EFF’s Mission Statement.................................................................................................................2
Privacy issues of the Hepting case...................................................................................................3
The privacy law violation and the implications of such violations.................................................4
Privacy law violation...................................................................................................................4
Legal implications.......................................................................................................................4

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EFF’s Mission Statement
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) supports and advocates the laws and litigations
that speaks against the violation of the First Amendment Rights pertaining to telecommunication
and computer technology. It defends the infringement of civil rights and helps people by way
of its action center. Its primary mission is to safeguard the private data and information that
consumers share to companies or government authorities. EFF’s purpose is to defend free
speech, consumer rights, privacy and innovation from being restricted or exploited. EFF stands
strong to protect the privacy of individuals in today’s world where Human Rights violation are
becoming rampant. It strives to work for better encryption programs, security research, open
source software, file-sharing tools and lots more pertaining to the evolving scenario of
technological world. EFF strives to highlight the issues to the policymakers and encourages them
formulate better policies to safeguard the infringement of privacy rights, makes the press and the
public aware of the prevalent issues through workshops, educational guides, comprehensive
analysis, etcetera. It indulges into class-action lawsuits to protect the above-mentioned rights to
which the citizens are entitled ("About EFF", 2018). One such case is the Hepting v. AT&T
where the telecommunication service provider along with the National Security Agency (NSA)
in an illegal program to data-mine and wiretap the private and confidential conversations of the
citizens. It has a connection to the NSA warrantless surveillance case where the government
frames a program to monitor phone conversations without warrant or authorization.