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Jan 16, 2025
ACLU Comment on Presidential Executive Order to Strengthen Digital ID Regulations
WASHINGTON – Today, the Biden Administration announced an Executive Order on strengthening cybersecurity regulations for critical infrastructure sectors and establishing federal ...
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Privacy & Technology
Dec 17, 2024
ACLU Applauds Arizona Supreme Court Historic Decision That Police Need a Warrant to Access DNA
PHOENIX — In a 7-0 decision, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a warrant is required to extract and analyze people’s DNA, saying that a person’s limited consent to a searc...
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Privacy & Technology
Court case: State v. Mitcham
Oct 24, 2024
ACLU Warns that Biden-Harris Administration Rules on AI in National Security Lack Key Protections
WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration today released its National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence (AI), establishing guidelines for how the U.S. government ...
Sep 23, 2024
Child Safety, Free Speech, and Privacy Experts Tell Supreme Court: Texas’s Unconstitutional Age Verification Law Must be Overturned
In Friend-of-the-Court Briefs, Orgs Explain that Age-gating the Internet Will Not Keep Kids or Adults Safe
Court case: Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton
Aug 28, 2024
ACLU Releases Roadmap to Rein in Government Surveillance Under a Harris Administration
The roadmap continues the ACLU’s 2024 election policy memo series exploring likely policies from a potential Trump or Harris administration.
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National Security
Privacy & Technology
Aug 16, 2024
ACLU Cheers Ninth Circuit Decision to Block Content-Based Provisions of California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today blocked several provisions of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) that impermissibly and unconstituti...
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Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
Court case: Netchoice, LLC v. Bonta
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News & CommentaryFeb 2026
Privacy & Technology
License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data. Explore News & Commentary.License Plate Readings Shouldn’t Be Public Data
Such readings shouldn’t generally be retained at all, but if they are at least privacy needs to be protected -
News & CommentaryFeb 2026
Privacy & Technology
Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out. Explore News & Commentary.Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out
Think twice about sending video from your home to companies, and possibly police and hackers -
News & CommentaryFeb 2026
Privacy & Technology
Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers To Go After Man Who Wrote Op-ed. Explore News & Commentary.Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed
Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers -
CaliforniaJan 2026
Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
Doe V. Dhs. Explore Case.Doe v. DHS
On February 2, 2026, the ACLU, ACLU of Northern California, and the ACLU of Pennsylvania filed a motion in federal court to quash a Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) administrative subpoena seeking Google subscriber records about our client, solely because he engaged in constitutionally protected speech criticizing DHS conduct.