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Calling All Bookworms: What Do YOU Have to Hide?
There’s something really liberating about having some corner of your life that’s yours, that no one gets to see except you. It’s a little like nudity or taking a dump. Everyone gets naked every once in a while. Everyone has to squat on the toilet. There’s nothing shameful, deviant or weird about either of them. But what if I decreed that from now on, every time you went to evacuate some solid waste, you’d have to do it in a glass room perched in the middle of Times Square, and you’d be buck naked?
-Cory Doctorow, “Little Brother”
By By Noa Yachot, Communications Strategist, ACLU
Turning Transgender 'Visibility' into Meaningful Change for Transgender People
Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility, which is a moment to take stock of what “visibility” actually means in the day-to-day lives of transgender people around the world. As we become more visible in society, what is also visible is how much work remains to be done to create positive change for all transgender people.
By By Carl Charles, Skadden Fellow, ACLU LGBT Project
Body Cameras on Police in Schools
We’re starting to get questions about the use of body cameras by “school resource officers,” a.k.a. police officers stationed in schools.
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
The 'wHOLE' Truth Behind Solitary Confinement
On any given day in America there are 80,000 people in solitary settings, not counting youth in juvenile facilities and people in jails.
By Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
A New U.N. Champion for Privacy
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted today to establish a watchdog to monitor the state of privacy rights worldwide. That watchdog, called a special rapporteur, was created by a consensus vote of all members of the council. That’s very good news, and it’s been a long time coming. As we noted recently, it’s been clear for a while that privacy has been one of the most widely violated rights not to have its own, dedicated rapporteur.
By By Alex Sinha, Aryeh Neier Fellow, Human Rights Watch & ACLU
Half a Century Later, Mad Men's Peggy Olson Is Still Waiting for Paycheck Fairness
Despite the popularity of the show “Mad Men,” we are no longer living in the 1960s, but the current gender wage gap doesn’t reflect that. Ongoing wage inequity should be a thing that’s in the past.
By By Deborah J. Vagins, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Five Ways to Keep Your Data Safe Right Now
This post was first published on TED.com.
By By Chris Soghoian, Principal Technologist and Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project
Better Privacy Protections Are a Key to U.S. Foreign Policy Coherence
For all its interest in promoting human rights around the world, you’d think the United States would be more sensitive to the ways its own surveillance policies undermine those very rights.
By By Alex Sinha, Aryeh Neier Fellow, Human Rights Watch & ACLU
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