The Year We #TrashGeofenceTracking

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Friend,

There’s currently nothing stopping NYPD from scooping up nearly limitless numbers of New Yorkers’ location and keyword search data. With geofence warrants, police can require tech companies to identify every person in a specified place during a specified period, covering a geographic area as small as an apartment or as large as a city. The reverse keyword search warrant is a related and equally dangerous tool, which allows police to compel Google and other search engines to reveal everyone who searched for a given term or phrase. Both these general warrants violate the Constitution and have been weaponized to track political protests, religious services, and other sensitive sites.

Join us in our fight to ban geofence and keyword warrants in New York State by sharing on social media and contacting your state representatives.

Check out S.T.O.P.’s social media toolkit on the Reverse Location and Reverse Keyword Search Prohibition Act to learn more about how you can help to spread the word and #TrashGeofenceTracking in New York State.

Reach out to your state senator and assembly member today to ask that they co-sponsor the Reverse Location and Reverse Keyword Search Prohibition Act (A.3306 Solages/S.217 Myrie), which would ban geofence and keyword warrants as well as ban NYPD from purchasing any similarly compromising data.

Take action now to protect your civil rights! It’s easy – our toolkit contains all the resources you need to help out. Make sure to share with your networks and on social media! With your help, this is the year NY can finally ban geofence and keyword warrants once and for all.

In Solidarity,
Scarlett Galvin
Communications Intern

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NewsletterLeticia MurilloMarch 20, 2024