COVID-19 May Fade, But Will the Tracking Tools Built to Fight It?

We must ensure that temporary COVID-19 data surveillance infrastructures do not needlessly outlast this once-in-a-century pandemic.

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Special Report: Chase Strangio on the Legislative Assault on Trans Youth

At Liberty unpacks a year in which more than 100 bills attacking trans people have been introduced across the country, and where the ACLU is focusing its firepower to protect trans youth.

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The Computer Got it Wrong: Why We’re Taking the Detroit Police to Court Over a Faulty Face Recognition ‘Match’

Face recognition technology turns everybody into a suspect and threatens our civil rights.

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Police Must Not Create Digital Dossiers of Data from our Phones and Computers

Courts are starting to scrutinize free-wheeling searches of the libraries’ worth of private information stored on our electronic devices.

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The Promise of Systemic Equality Starts at Home

Last month, we called on the Biden administration to reckon with systemic racism. We're doing that work at our own organization too though.

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I Refused to Become an FBI Informant, and the Government Put Me on the No Fly List

With the help of the ACLU, I’m bringing a lawsuit to challenge the government’s actions.

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ICE’s Watchdog Agency Confirms Dangerous Conditions in Arizona Immigration Detention Facility

The conditions highlighted in this report are shocking, but not unusual. ICE detention is plagued by dangerous conditions and abuse of detained people.

A woman wears a protective face mask and gloves as she protests outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office Friday, May 29, 2020, in Plantation, Fla.

A Chinese American Scientist and His Family Are Battling the FBI’s Profiling in Court

We must secure justice for Professor Xi and other scientists who have long been harmed by the FBI’s discriminatory profiling and surveillance.

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More Surveillance Isn’t the Answer to the SolarWinds Hack

The existing surveillance apparatus is already expansive and especially dangerous to communities of color, Muslims, and immigrants.

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