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What Your Cell Phone Company Is Telling the Government About You

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 4:48pm
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

Supreme Court Will Hear ACLU Case Challenging Warrantless Wiretapping Law

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 10:16am
The Supreme Court has just agreed to consider whether plaintiffs represented by the ACLU have the right to challenge the constitutionality of a controversial law that ... Read More

Government Asks for Another Delay in Targeted Killing FOIA Lawsuit

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 4:41pm
We’ve just learned that the Obama administration has asked the court for another extension for filing briefs in the ACLU’s FOIA lawsuit seeking ... Read More

VIDEO: Falling Short: Guantánamo Military Commissions and the Torture Connection

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 9:47am
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks will soon be tried at a military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay, ... Read More

VIDEO: See What Armed Domestic Drones Look Like

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 4:09pm
A big worry about U.S. law enforcement’s expanding use of drones is the lack of rules protecting from privacy violations. But drone manufacturers are also ... Read More

VIDEO: Presidential Power and the Targeted Killing Debate

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 5:34pm
The Obama administration’s strained defense of its targeted killing program is continuing to make people think long and hard about the government’s ... Read More

VIDEO: Holder Talks About Targeted Killing Program While DOJ Says It Can't

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 7:55pm
On Monday the Obama administration made its latest attempt to defend the government’s targeted killing program. Attorney General Eric Holder provided the most ... Read More

VIDEO: Doug Liman Talks About Crowdsourced Film Project "Reckoning With Torture"

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 11:48am
Video submissions from the public are now being taken for director Doug Liman’s new film, Reckoning With Torture: Memos and Testimonies From the “War On ... Read More

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Should Investigate Spying and Religious Profiling by NYPD

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 5:31pm
Today the ACLU and the New York Civil Liberties Union called on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to investigate religious and racial profiling by the New York ... Read More

Domestic Drones: Hear About Who’s Watching You from Above

By Josh Bell, ACLU at 9:44am
The ACLU recently released a report prompted by the increasing use of surveillance drones by U.S. law enforcement and other agencies. It finds that current privacy ... Read More
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