Free Future
The ACLU's blog on emerging technology and science. Edited by Jay Stanley.
Privacy & Technology
Criminal Law Reform
The AI Trapdoor Lying in Wait for Workers
Privacy & Technology
Another Police Use of AI
Privacy & Technology
Another Police Use of AI
Free Speech
Immigrants' Rights
Immigration Agents are Retaliating Against People Who Record Them
Free Speech
Immigrants' Rights
Immigration Agents are Retaliating Against People Who Record Them
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency
Free Speech
Immigrants' Rights
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship
Free Speech
Immigrants' Rights
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship
Privacy & Technology
+3 Issues
Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell
Privacy & Technology
+3 Issues
Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell
Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
There’s Only One State That is Asking the Right Questions About Digital Identity
Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
There’s Only One State That is Asking the Right Questions About Digital Identity
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Digital Driver’s Licenses Threaten to Create a “Great Internet Lockdown”
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Digital Driver’s Licenses Threaten to Create a “Great Internet Lockdown”
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Surveillance Supporters Tout Police Audit Logs But They’re Not an Effective Check and Balance
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Surveillance Supporters Tout Police Audit Logs But They’re Not an Effective Check and Balance
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Biometric bracelets for prisoners
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Biometric bracelets for prisoners
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After AI Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After AI Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun
Privacy & Technology
National Security
Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Even When Police Departments Opt Out, And Other Flock Developments
Privacy & Technology
National Security
Flock Can Share Driver-Surveillance Data Even When Police Departments Opt Out, And Other Flock Developments
Privacy & Technology
Many States Regulate the Scanning of ID Barcodes; Why Don’t They Offer Similar Protections for Digital Driver’s Licenses?
Privacy & Technology
Many States Regulate the Scanning of ID Barcodes; Why Don’t They Offer Similar Protections for Digital Driver’s Licenses?
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Sweeping Ban on Drone Flights Across Chicago Looks Suspiciously Like an Attempt to Ban Press Coverage
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Sweeping Ban on Drone Flights Across Chicago Looks Suspiciously Like an Attempt to Ban Press Coverage
Privacy & Technology
Human Rights
Surveillance Businesses Have Human Rights Responsibilities
Privacy & Technology
Human Rights
Surveillance Businesses Have Human Rights Responsibilities
Privacy & Technology
Digital Driver’s Licenses Could Make “Surveillance Pricing” Much Easier for Companies
Privacy & Technology
Digital Driver’s Licenses Could Make “Surveillance Pricing” Much Easier for Companies
Privacy & Technology
“Surveillance Pricing” Hurts Consumers, Incentivizes More Corporate Spying on Them
Privacy & Technology
“Surveillance Pricing” Hurts Consumers, Incentivizes More Corporate Spying on Them
Privacy & Technology
Open vs. Closed: The Battle for the Future of Language Models
Privacy & Technology
Open vs. Closed: The Battle for the Future of Language Models
Privacy & Technology
Autonomous Drone Patrols Start to Become a Thing
Privacy & Technology
Autonomous Drone Patrols Start to Become a Thing
Privacy & Technology
What's the Future of AI Language Models as a Decentralized Technology?
Privacy & Technology
What's the Future of AI Language Models as a Decentralized Technology?
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
I’m Hearing About More Pushback Against Flock, Fueled by Concern Over Anti-Immigrant Uses
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
I’m Hearing About More Pushback Against Flock, Fueled by Concern Over Anti-Immigrant Uses
Racial Justice
Privacy & Technology
Will Giant Companies Always Have a Monopoly on Top AI Models?
Racial Justice
Privacy & Technology
Will Giant Companies Always Have a Monopoly on Top AI Models?
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance
Privacy & Technology
+2 Issues
Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance
Many Are Focused on the Wrong Questions When it Comes to AI
Many Are Focused on the Wrong Questions When it Comes to AI
National Security
Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
National Security
Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
Older technology policy posts:
Machine Surveillance is Being Super-Charged by Large AI Models (2025-03-21)
Attempts at a Technological Solution to Disinformation Will Do More Harm Than Good (2024-12-24)
Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond (2024-12-17)
AI Generated Police Reports Raise Concerns Around Transparency, Bias (2024-12-10)
White paper: Police Departments Shouldn't Allow Officers to Use AI to Draft Police Reports (2024-12-10)
DHS Focus on "Soft Targets" Risks Out-of-Control Surveillance (2024-10-24)
State Legislatures Need to Block Creation of Nightmarish National Identity System (2024-10-10)
States Dust Off Obscure Anti-Mask Laws to Target Pro-Palestine Protesters (2024-05-15)
White paper: Curbs Needed on Police Drone Surveillance of Public Gatherings (2024-03-14)
Communities Should Reject Surveillance Products Whose Makers Won't Allow Them to be Independently Evaluated (2024-03-06)
New Point-and-Shoot Chemical Detectors Raise Privacy and Constitutional Issues (2023-12-06)
Some Steps to Defend Against Online Doxxing and Harassment (2023-11-30)
TSA Shouldn't Force a Bad Digital ID System on America (2023-10-31)
Police Drones Could Turn America Into a Surveillance State (WSJ op-ed published 2023-07-28)
White paper: Eye-in-the-Sky Policing Needs Strict Limits (2023-07-27)
Will ChatGPT Revolutionize Surveillance? (2023-04-19)
Catholic Group Buying Data to Out Gay Priests is Tip of Location-Tracking Iceberg (2023-04-07)
Tesla Camera Scandal is the Latest Lesson in Dangers of Letting Companies Record You (2023-04-06)
Firestorm Over Green Bay City Hall Surveillance Microphones is a Reminder of Country We Don’t Want to Live In (2023-02-27)
New Mobile Phone Service Shows We Can Have Both Privacy and Nice Things (2023-02-15)
How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers (2023-02-13)
It’s Simply Too Dangerous to Arm Robots (2022-12-16)
Are Gun Detectors the Answer to Mass Shootings? (2022-11-02)