Bio
Patrick Toomey (@PatrickCToomey) is the deputy director of the ACLU National Security Project, where he works on issues related to electronic surveillance, national security prosecutions, whistle-blowing, and racial profiling. Toomey is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Nancy Gertner, U.S. district judge for the District of Massachusetts, and to the Hon. Barrington D. Parker, U.S. circuit judge for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Featured work
Nov 4, 2021
Can the Government Wrongfully Spy on You and Get Away With It?

Sep 7, 2021
The Privacy Lesson of 9/11: Mass Surveillance is Not the Way Forward

Jun 1, 2021
A New Consensus Around Transparency and National Security Surveillance

Apr 2, 2021
A Chinese American Scientist and His Family Are Battling the FBI’s Profiling in Court

Mar 26, 2021
The Government is Racing to Deploy AI, But at What Cost to Our Freedom?

Feb 5, 2020
The Government is Using its Foreign Intelligence Spying Powers for Routine Domestic Investigations

Jan 18, 2019
The Justice Department Shouldn’t Be Snooping on Journalists

Sep 24, 2018
What a European Court Ruling Means for Mass Spying Around the World

Aug 22, 2018
The NSA Continues to Violate Americans' Internet Privacy Rights
