Privacy concerns grow over FBI data gathering
Watchdogs fear the organization's new facial-recognition system will collect information on innocent civilians
Saturday, Oct 27, 2012 11:30 AM UTCNews FBI, ACLU
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ACLU challenges Bay Area police drone plans
Alameda County will experiment with drones. Activists and residents demand details
Thursday, Oct 18, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 15Technology Alameda County, Policing
Morgan Stanley sued for subprime discrimination
A class-action suit alleges that the investment bank steered black borrowers to bad mortgages
Monday, Oct 15, 2012 6:58 PM UTCBusiness Morgan Stanley, Discrimination
Rights groups: Ban solitary confinement of youths
The ACLU and Human Rights Watch say the government should ban solitary for offenders under 18
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 7:55 PM UTCNews ACLU, From the Wires, Prisons
Documents show spike in warrantless surveillance
The ACLU publishes government records obtained via FOIA
Friday, Sep 28, 2012 3:19 PM UTCTechnology Wire-tapping, Surveillance
$1 million to pepper-sprayed protesters
Sitting Occupy demonstrators were doused at the University of California, Davis
Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012 6:07 PM UTCNews Pepper-spray, Occupy, UC Davis
Distress spreads in Arizona over “Show-your-papers” law
Immigrant rights activists prepare concerned citizens now that SB 1070 is in effect
Friday, Sep 21, 2012 6:29 PM UTC 35News SB 1070, Police, Arizona
Arizona “show-your-papers” law begins
Police can carry out immigration checks on anyone who is stopped and suspected
Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 5:17 PM UTCNews Illegal immigrants, Police
Drones: Hidden in plain sight
How the government talks about a drone program it won't acknowledge exists
Saturday, Sep 15, 2012 2:00 PM UTC 10Politics ProPublica, Drones, U.S. Military
Four ways your privacy is being invaded
Slowly but surely, government and telecommunications companies have forged a police-corporate surveillance complex
Tuesday, Sep 11, 2012 1:44 PM UTCLife AlterNet, Privacy, FBI, Terrorism
Study: Divided classes promote stereotypes
A new report from the ACLU confirms what feminists have long suspected: Single-sex classrooms don't help kids learn
Sunday, Sep 2, 2012 2:30 PM UTC 39All Salon Feministing, Feminism, ACLU, Sex
Death penalty opponents’ unlikely allies
Across the country, family members of murder victims have come out against capital punishment
Monday, Aug 20, 2012 6:52 PM UTCLife The Crime Report
Racial profiling on an “industrial scale”
The ACLU uncovers an FBI program that pairs Census data with "crude stereotypes" to map ethnic communities
Saturday, Oct 22, 2011 1:00 PM UTC 31News Race, ACLU
Dennis G. Jacobs: Case study in judicial pathology
The ACLU scores a big victory over government lawlessness, but the dissenting judge's ugly outburst speaks volumes
Thursday, Sep 22, 2011 10:23 AM UTCPolitics ACLU
The ACLU on Obama and core liberties
The leading civil liberties group documents the dangerous continuity between this President and the last one
Wednesday, Sep 7, 2011 11:08 AM UTC 261Politics ACLU
Why we need to police the police
Cops don't like it, but cellphone videos are an important check on brutality
Friday, May 20, 2011 11:01 AM UTC 38News ACLU, When in Rome
Government employer asks man for Facebook login during job interview
Maryland Department of Corrections asks a candidate for his Facebook password. Is this the next privacy frontier?
Monday, Feb 21, 2011 3:01 PM UTC 71Entertainment Facebook, ACLU, Privacy
L.A. authorities plan to use heat-beam ray in jail
The "Assault Intervention Device" draws fire from civil rights groups, who compare it to torture
Thursday, Aug 26, 2010 10:52 PM UTC 28News California, ACLU
Tuesday link dump: Let’s get South Carolina back to work!
Alvin Greene's new campaign site, Tom Coburn does something terrible, and updates on the Kos poll scandal
Tuesday, Jun 29, 2010 11:01 PM UTCPolitics 2012 Elections, ACLU, Islam
Thursday link dump: Stop whatever you imagine the ACLU is doing
BP's mistakes, Scientology, and restoring liberty by restricting direct democracy
Friday, May 28, 2010 12:01 AM UTCPolitics War Room, ACLU, Gulf Oil Spill
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