Police Say a Simple Warning Will Prevent Face Recognition Wrongful Arrests. That's Just Not True. | ACLU

Even when police heed warnings to take additional investigative steps, they exacerbate the unreliability of face recognition results.

Four Actions You Can Take To Protect Digital Rights this International Women’s Day

This International Women’s Day, defend free speech, fight surveillance, and support innovation by calling on our elected politicians and private companies to uphold our most fundamental rights—both online and offline.1. Pass the “My Body, My Data”...

Communities Should Reject Surveillance Products Whose Makers Won't Allow Them to be Independently Evaluated | ACLU

Independent reviewers of new surveillance technology play a crucial role in safeguarding our right to privacy.

EFF Joins Forces with 20+ Organizations in the Coalition #MigrarSinVigilancia

Today, EFF joins more than 25 civil society organizations to launch the Coalition #MigrarSinVigilancia ("To Migrate Without Surveillance"). The Latin American coalition’s aim is to oppose arbitrary and indiscriminate surveillance affecting...

TSA Shouldn't Force a Bad Digital ID System on America | ACLU

If we must have a digital ID system, we should take the time to do it right.

The Vital Role of End-to-End Encryption | ACLU

In this golden age for surveillance, encryption technology is crucial.

Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant

Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of a keyword warrant—a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a...

Keeping Our Kids Safe from the EdTech Surveillance Industry | ACLU

Our new report illustrates why harmful surveillance tools are a poor option for improving school safety.

How Our Affiliates are Fighting for Education Equity | ACLU

ACLU affiliates are challenging discriminatory discipline policies, censorship efforts, and the use of force in schools across the country.

First Draft of UN Cybercrime Convention Drops Troubling Provisions, But Dangerous And Open-Ended Cross Border Surveillance Powers Are Back on the Table

This is Part I of a two-part post about the first draft of the UN Cybercrime Convention. Part I provides background on treaty negotiations and analyzes our first take on the Zero draft and its human rights implications. Part II analyzes the...

Victory! Ninth Circuit Allows Human Rights Case to Move Forward Against Cisco Systems

People around the world have been searching for ways to hold accountable companies that build tools for government repression. From massive surveillance systems to state-sponsored malware, governments around the world are increasingly using...

Victory! New Jersey Court Rules Police Must Give Defendant the Facial Recognition Algorithms Used to Identify Him

In a victory for transparency in police use of facial recognition, a New Jersey appellate court today ruled that state prosecutors—who charged a man for armed robbery after the technology showed he was a “possible match” for the suspect—must turn...

To Save the News, We Must Ban Surveillance Advertising

This is part three of an ongoing, five-part series. Part one, the introduction, is here. Part two, about breaking up ad-tech companies, is here.The ad-tech industry is incredibly profitable, raking in hundreds of billions of dollars every year by...

How the Arizona Attorney General Created a Secretive, Illegal Surveillance Program to Sweep up Millions of Our Financial Records | News & Commentary | American Civil Liberties Union

New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs on Americans’ financial data.

Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects, Threatening Privacy and Public Health | News & Commentary | American Civil Liberties Union

States must craft policies to rein in unbridled police access to newborn blood samples.

Six Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Surveillance Technology | News & Commentary | American Civil Liberties Union

Community members, policymakers, and political leaders can make better decisions about new technology by asking these questions.

Stop Invasive Remote Proctoring: Pass California’s Student Test Taker Privacy Protection Act

Remote proctoring companies like Proctorio, ProctorU, and ExamSoft collect all manner of private data on students and test takers, from biometric information to citizenship status to video and audio of a user’s surroundings. During the pandemic...

We Need Answers About the CIA’s Mass Surveillance

The Central Intelligence Agency has been collecting American’s private data without any oversight or even the minimal legal safeguards that apply to the NSA and FBI, an unconstitutional affront to our civil liberties. According to a declassified...

PDX Privacy: Building Community Defenses in Difficult Times

The Electronic Frontier Alliance is made up of more than seventy groups of concerned community members, often including workers in the tech industry who see issues of the industry from the inside. One of the Alliance’s most active members is PDX...

The Catalog of Carceral Surveillance: Patents Aren't Products (Yet)

In EFF’s Catalog of Carceral Surveillance, we explore patents filed by or awarded to prison communication technology companies Securus and Global Tel*Link in the past five years. The dystopian technology the patents describe are exploitative and...