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By Bennett Stein, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

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News & Commentary
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  • Free Speech and Pluralism

ACLU Seeks Information About Airborne Cell Phone Snooping

The ACLU is filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today for information about a newly revealed Marshals Service program that uses aircraft to suck up location data from tens of thousands of people’s cell phones at a time.
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  • Free Speech and Pluralism

A Partial Victory For Judicial Transparency

In a partial victory for the public’s right to access and scrutinize court proceedings, a federal judge recently made public most of two previously sealed opinions authorizing gag orders on Twitter and Yahoo to prevent the companies from disclosing grand jury subpoenas demanding some of their subscribers’ records.