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By Julia Harumi Mass, Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California

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This Secret Domestic Surveillance Program Is About to Get Pulled Out of the Shadows

The federal government will have to produce information on a vast and secret domestic surveillance program and defend the program's legality in open court. That's the result of a decision issued Friday by the federal judge presiding over our lawsuit challenging the Suspicious Activity Reporting program, part of an ever-expanding domestic surveillance network established after 9/11.
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Suing to Defend Americans' Right to Take Pictures in Public

What does an 86-year-old art photographer have in common with a young man with a video game habit?