New Civil Liberties Alliance@NCLAlegal
This may have flown under your radar, but NCLA settled a very important civil liberties and privacy case last week.
In Wright v. Goldstein, NCLA lawyers sued over a Massachusetts program that auto-installed a Covid tracking app on more than a million smartphones—without users’ knowledge or consent.
The spyware app tracked movements and contacts, and in even reinstalled itself if a smartphone owner deleted it.
Because of tireless work by NCLA litigators, including Peggy Little, pictured here at the courthouse after the settlement was approved, the government can’t install tracking device apps on your phone, and Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) agrees to destroy all of the data it illegally collected.