Remember the George W. Bush warrantless wiretapping program? The one that was so illegal that Congress had to pass a special law to ensure that no one was ... Read More
This week, Northwestern and the University of Michigan law schools released a National Registry of Exonerations, a new database chronicling the ever-growing number of ... Read More
A recent court order may not have attracted much media attention, but it is tremendously important to a few of us Alaskans. The order deals with the Department of ... Read More
It’s time for cell phone companies to be up front with customers about how their personal information – including their location history and who they call ... Read More
Late last week, the ACLU joined a letter to the Social Security Administration (SSA) drafted by our coalition partners at the National Center for Transgender ... Read More
By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 11:09am
On Friday I posted about an ongoing effort by the DEA to put automatic license plate reading (ALPR) devices on public interstates, where they will sweep up records of ... Read More
Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, makes opening remarks
Vanita Gupta, ACLU deputy legal director, Center for Justice, serves ... Read More
By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 5:18pm
Privacy researcher Chris Soghoian gave a very nice talk at TEDx recently on “Why Google Won’t Protect You From Big Brother.” He provides a cogent ... Read More
On Saturday, the Board of Directors of the NAACP, the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots-based civil rights organization, passed a ... Read More
This morning we received good news; the Supreme Court has just agreed to consider whether plaintiffs represented by the ACLU have the right to challenge the ... Read More
