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05/21/2012
Government Surveillance

The Government, Privacy, and Companies (The Ones We Pay and the Ones We Don’t)

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
05/18/2012
Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (5/18/2012)

By Anna Salem, ACLU of Northern California at 3:03pm
In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and ... Read More
05/16/2012
Facebook

Facebook: $100 Billion IPO. Almost 1 Billion Users. You Do the Math.

By Chris Conley, ACLU of Northern California at 8:35am
The big news in the business world this week is Facebook’s ongoing Initial Public Offering, where the company is selling shares to the public based on an ... Read More
05/11/2012
Civil Liberties in the Digital Age

Civil Liberties in the Digital Age: Weekly Highlights (5/11/2012)

By Anna Salem, ACLU of Northern California at 2:52pm
In the digital age that we live in today, we are constantly exposing our personal information online. From using cell phones and GPS devices to online shopping and ... Read More
05/09/2012
Social Networking Privacy

Password Protection Act of 2012: A Good Start Against Employer Snooping

By Chris Calabrese, Washington Legislative Office at 6:06pm
Today Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Representative Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and a number of cosponsors filed the Password Protection Act of 2012 in the Senate and ... Read More
05/04/2012
This Week in Civil Liberties

This Week in Civil Liberties (5/4/2012)

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 4:41pm
What surveillance tool used by law enforcement could lead to nightmarish privacy infringement? This week, the White House confirmed the existence of what program that ... Read More
05/04/2012
Facebook

Maryland Passes Nation's First Social Media Privacy Protection Bill

By Melissa Coretz Goemann, ACLU of Maryland at 4:30pm
Just this week, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed into law the first bill in the nation prohibiting employers from requiring or requesting employees or ... Read More
05/02/2012
Freedom of Expression

I Like Ike

By Aden Fine, Senior Staff Attorney, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 8:09am
“I Like Ike” is one of the most well-known and catchiest political slogans of all time. According to a decision that was issued by a federal judge in ... Read More
04/30/2012
Data Mining

The Potential Chilling Effects of Big Data

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 11:46am
Last week I posted about “Big Data” and how it is being used to discover new facts about people, to sift and sort them based on subtle patterns, to flag ... Read More
04/25/2012
Social Networking Privacy

ACLU Guidance on Demands For Passwords To Protected Accounts

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 3:54pm
The Associated Press wrote a story a couple of weeks ago about job applicants being compelled to turn over the passwords to their social-networking accounts. This is ... Read More

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