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Criminalizing Drug Users Is Killing People
21-year-old Alysa Ivy was surrounded by people when she died of a heroin overdose. Not one of them called 911 for help. Instead, they left her alone in a motel room, afraid they’d be arrested if they called the authorities.
By By Chloe Cockburn, Advocacy and Policy Counsel, ACLU
"Snowden Was Justified." Get the Facts and You’ll Likely Agree.
A New York audience devoted nearly two hours yesterday evening to a riveting Intelligence Squared debate about Edward Snowden and the surveillance regime that his disclosures revealed.
By By Noa Yachot, Communications Strategist, ACLU
Court Rules Feds Need Warrant to Access Drug Prescriptions Database
In a significant win for the privacy rights of anyone who has ever gotten a drug prescription, a federal judge in Oregon ruled yesterday that the DEA needs a warrant to search confidential prescription records.
By By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Her is Oscar Nominated – Why Isn’t She?
Hollywood's annual awards season culminates with the Academy Awards, a night honoring the best films and performances of the year. This year, all five directors nominated for the Best Director award are men. Last year, all the nominees were men. In fact, a woman hasn't been nominated for Best Director since 2010, the year that Kathryn Bigelow took home the honor for directing The Hurt Locker. Bigelow is the only woman to have ever won the award, and she is one of only four women who has ever been nominated for it in the Academy Awards' 86 year history.
By By Emily Carter, Legal Assistant, Women's Rights Project, ACLU
Big Data, George Orwell, and Tanks
I recently came across an interesting passage by George Orwell. It made me think about Big Data.
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Remembering Larry King
We live in freedom by necessity. We must reshape our world. We must love one another, or die.
--Vijay Prashad, The World We Want is the World We Need, Riverside Church
By By Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, ACLU
Five Surveillance Myths Stalling NSA Reform, Debunked
These piece ran originally at The Guardian.
By By Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
ACLU Defends Nonprofit Free Speech
Political speech regulation remains an incredibly complex and contentious issue in our government, and there is plenty of legitimate concern about the recent influx of big, outside money in modern campaigns.
By By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
On the Agenda: February 10-14
Old-man winter spared the nation's capital the crippling blow it dealt to the Northeast last week, which turned out to be a very good thing for NSA critics. That meant that the House Judiciary Committee's hearing on surveillance reform went on as planned, and it was a doozy for Obama administration witness, Deputy Attorney General James Cole.
By By Matthew Harwood, Media Strategist, ACLU
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