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Jun 02, 2025
Digital Identity Leaders and Privacy Experts Sound the Alarm on Invasive ID Systems
Signatories, including the ACLU, warn officials of “Phone Home” feature of digital IDs that allows the government to track people’s daily lives
Issue Areas: Privacy & Technology
May 19, 2025
ACLU and ACLU of Louisiana Sound Alarm on New Orleans Police Department’s Secret Use of Real-Time Facial Recognition
Network of face recognition surveillance cameras distinguishes New Orleans as the worst abuser of this technology in the nation
Issue Areas: Privacy & Technology National Security
May 12, 2025
Disability Rights and Privacy Advocates Raise Concerns with Proposed Autism “Registry”
Letter to RFK, Jr. Details Risks of Surveillance, Stigmatization, and Marginalization
Issue Areas: Disability Rights Privacy & Technology
May 07, 2025
ACLU Demands Social Security Administration Turn Over Docs on DOGE’s Access to Americans’ Data
The group also released a related report today on the significant risks of DOGE consolidating federal data
Issue Areas: Privacy & Technology
Court case: U.S. DOGE Service Access to Sensitive Agency Records Systems FOIA
Apr 25, 2025
Human Rights First Joins ACLU and NYCLU in Amicus Brief to Protect First Amendment Rights and Interests of NGOs Advocating for U.S. Sanctions
Today, Human Rights First, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court for the East...
Issue Areas: Privacy & Technology Free Speech National Security
Court case: In Re: Application of Isaac Levi Pilant, for an Order Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782 to Conduct Discovery for Use in a Foreign Proceeding
Apr 21, 2025
ACLU Sues Social Security Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs for Information about DOGE Data Access
Suit seeks to enforce FOIA requests on records of potentially unlawful access to Americans’ sensitive data
Issue Areas: Privacy & Technology
Court case: U.S. DOGE Service Access to Sensitive Agency Records Systems Multiagency FOIA
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