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Feb 21, 2014

Setting the record straight on DHS and license plate tracking

Free Speech and Pluralism

There has been a lot of press...

By By Kade Crockford, Director, ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project

There has been a lot of press...

By By Kade Crockford, Director, ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project
Feb 21, 2014

Relax, It’s Not the Thought Police

Free Speech and Pluralism

I get paid to defend unpopular speech. And, I’m the first to jump at the slightest hint of government censorship or coercion in the free market of ideas, as our recent...

By By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office

I get paid to defend unpopular speech. And, I’m the first to jump at the slightest hint of government censorship or coercion in the free market of ideas, as our recent...

By By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Feb 21, 2014

The Promise and Hope of Detroit

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", as Percy Bysshe Shelley put it. I was reminded of this power that poetry has to illuminate...

By By Dennis Parker, Director, ACLU Racial Justice Program

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world", as Percy Bysshe Shelley put it. I was reminded of this power that poetry has to illuminate...

By By Dennis Parker, Director, ACLU Racial Justice Program
Feb 21, 2014

Guantánamo Dispatch: When a Guilty Plea is the Way Out

I watched a man yesterday plead guilty to war crimes in a military commission, and it troubled me. It troubled me because just the day before, I watched the defense counsel in another commission proceeding...

By By Marcellene Hearn, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project

I watched a man yesterday plead guilty to war crimes in a military commission, and it troubled me. It troubled me because just the day before, I watched the defense counsel in another commission proceeding...

By By Marcellene Hearn, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
Feb 20, 2014

New Location Tracking Video Released

Free Speech and Pluralism

Our crack communications staff here at the ACLU have taken the graphical blog post I did on location tracking, and...

By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project

Our crack communications staff here at the ACLU have taken the graphical blog post I did on location tracking, and...

By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Feb 20, 2014

In Court Today: Challenging DOJ Secrecy on Use of Warrantless Cell Phone Location Tracking

Free Speech and Pluralism

Way back in 2007, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information about how and when the government obtains...

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

Way back in 2007, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information about how and when the government obtains...

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