By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 10:40am
The Verge had a story last week (expanding on an August report from the Chicago Tribune that I’d missed) that the Chicago police have created a list of the “400 most dangerous people in Chicago.” The Trib reported on one fellow, who had no criminal arrests, expressing surprise over having received a visit from the police and being told he was on this list. A 17-year-old girl was also shocked when told she was on the list.
By Kade Crockford, Director, ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project at 4:37pm
There has been a lot of press coverage in the past couple of weeks about the Department of Homeland Security posting a solicitation for contract proposals regarding access to a national license plate reader database—and DHS’s decision, once mainstream…
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 12:19pm
I get paid to defend unpopular speech. And, I’m the first to jump at the slightest hint of government censorship or coercion in the free market of ideas, as our recent comments critical of the IRS’s plans to regulate non-partisan political speech…
By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 2:04pm
Our crack communications staff here at the ACLU have taken the graphical blog post I did on location tracking, and what it might look like in the future, and turned it into a snappy new video.
All of our materials on the various facets of the…
By Bennett Stein, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at 10:47am
Way back in 2007, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information about how and when the government obtains cell phone location data without a warrant. Since then, we have learned that the practice of using cell phones as tracking…
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 4:33pm
The Federal Communications Commission has taken the first step in rebooting the net neutrality rules. Today's announcement by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler follows a major D.C. Circuit decision this year, which struck down the existing rules requiring that…
By Matthew Cagle, Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Fellow, ACLU of Northern California at 4:04pm
This was originally posted by the ACLU of Northern California.
In the wake of our shareholder advocacy, AT&T has now joined Verizon and released its first transparency report. AT&T's report shows how federal, state,…
By Kade Crockford, Director, ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project at 10:57am
This was posted to privacysos.org.
Technology in the digital age has changed the way the government conducts surveillance against targets, and the law must change accordingly. So ruled two separate state supreme courts in decisions that take…
By Kade Crockford, Director, ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project at 11:00pm
Governments at the local, state, and federal level increasingly collect troves of sensitive information about where we go, what we read, who we know, what we buy, and more. Some people say they don't care about this silent and ever present surveillance.…
By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 1:48pm
In a significant win for the privacy rights of anyone who has ever gotten a drug prescription, a federal judge in Oregon ruled yesterday that the DEA needs a warrant to search confidential prescription records.
