State Legislatures Need to Block Creation of Nightmarish National Identity System

The ACLU has issued legislative recommendations on protecting privacy and accessibility when creating digital IDs.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/state-legislatures-need-to-block-creation-of-nightmarish-national-identity-system

Around the country, state legislatures are embracing the creation of a nightmarish new electronic national identification system that has the potential to track everybody — online and off. This system is being created in the form of digital driver’s licenses. At first blush, these can seem harmless. Digital driver’s licenses are just what they sound like: A digital version of your state-issued driver license, permit or non-driver ID, carried in an app on your smartphone.

#id #privacy #aclu #american-civil-liberties-union #civil-liberties #orwellian-nightmare #surveillance #security #digital-id

Why Kamala Harris Must Break the Cycle of Unlawful and Abusive Government Surveillance

The ACLU is calling on a Harris-Walz Administration to halt civil liberties harms caused by the government’s spying on and discriminating against Americans in the U.S. and abroad.

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/why-kamala-harris-must-break-the-cycle-of-unlawful-and-abusive-government-surveillance

Since this nation’s founding, the executive branch has been granted — or has claimed — immense power to enforce the law, including the power to surveil, investigate, and impose criminal or other sanctions that deprive individuals of their freedoms. Today, national security agencies — including those with law enforcement, intelligence, homeland security, and defense functions — combine their expansive authorities with unprecedented digital tools that peer into our lives and collect immense amounts of information about us.

And don't forget the role of Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple in all of this. We are living through a War Against Privacy^TM^.

#privacy #security #surveillance #aclu #american-civil-liberties-union #harris #walz #government-surveillance #nsa #fbi #fisa #civil-liberties

Police Want to Treat Your Data Privacy Like Garbage. The Courts Shouldn't Let Them.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/police-want-to-treat-your-data-privacy-like-garbage-the-courts-shouldnt-let-them

Imagine this: You lost your phone, or had it stolen. Would you be comfortable with a police officer who picked it up rummaging through the phone’s contents without any authorization or oversight, thinking you had abandoned it? We’ll hazard a guess: hell no, and for good reason.

#privacy #security #surveillance #phone #cell-phone #smartphone #aclu #american-civil-liberties-union

Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests

Academic freedom and free speech are essential. Universities must protect them.

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/open-letter-to-college-and-university-presidents-on-student-protests

• Schools must not single out particular viewpoints for censorship, discipline, or disproportionate punishment
• Schools must protect students from discriminatory harassment and violence
• Schools can announce and enforce reasonable content-neutral protest policies but they must leave ample room for students to express themselves
• Schools must recognize that armed police on campus can endanger students and are a measure of last resort
• Schools must resist the pressures placed on them by politicians seeking to exploit campus tensions

#aclu #american-civil-liberties-union #free-speech #freedom #liberty #academic-freedom #university #universities #protests #free-expression #civil-liberties #university-presidents

Why is the ACLU Representing the NRA Before the US Supreme Court?

The ACLU has always stood up for free speech – no matter the speaker.

If the bad guys rights can be violated, so can ours.

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/why-is-the-aclu-representing-the-nra-before-the-us-supreme-court

For more than 100 years the American Civil Liberties Union has defended the right to free speech – no matter the speaker, and regardless of whether we agree with their views.

#nra #free-speech #american-civil-liberties-union #aclu #scotus #supreme-court #supreme-court-of-the-united-states