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Congress Must Strengthen Financial Privacy Laws, ACLU Says (03/04/1999)
The "Know Your Customer" proposal would require banks to create profiles of all their customers and monitor all of a customer's transactions to determine if any are unusual and therefore "suspicious." Those transactions would then be reported to the federal government. The regulations would vastly expand current bank reporting practices. 

ACLU Warns of Privacy Abuses in Government Plan to Expand DNA Databases (03/01/1999)
DALLAS, TX -- The American Civil Liberties Union believes that any proposal to create wholesale DNA data banks of suspects presents a frightening potential for a 'brave new world' in which genetic information is routinely collected and used in ways that will likely result in abuse and discrimination.

Citing Continuing Privacy Threats, ACLU Calls for Hearings on Government Databases (02/18/1999)
WASHINGTON--Following revelations that the U.S. Secret Service funded a private company's efforts to develop a national database of driver's license photographs, the American Civil Liberties Union today called on the government to protect -- not prostitute -- Americans' privacy.

ACLU of Florida Renews Call For Repeal of Law Permitting Sale of Photos and Personal Data from Driver's License Files (02/18/1999)
MIAMI--The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida today renewed its call for the repeal of the 1998 amendment to a transportation bill that permitted the sale of personal data on millions of Floridians.

Oakland Kills Video Surveillance Project (09/22/1997)

AzCLU Denounces Town of Superior's Big Brother Policing Tactics (01/14/1997)