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What the Bears’ Brandon Marshall’s Struggles With Mental Illness Teach Us About the Criminal Justice System
In a recent article in ESPN the Magazine, Chicago Bears All-Pro Wide Receiver Brandon Marshall admitted that in 2011 he was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder.
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By By Ajmel Quereshi, Staff Counsel, ACLU
Investigating the Imaginary Thought Police
Earlier this year, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, abruptly abandoned a survey of Americans’ media information needs, which, despite its modest scope, would have provided crucial data for the FCC in its efforts to maintain viewpoint diversity in our increasingly concentrated media markets.
By By Sarah Harrison, Washington Legislative Office
Dear Privacy Board: It’s Us, the 95%
There are seven billion people in the world, and 95 percent of them live outside the United States. We know from dozens of revelations from the last year that few, if any, are immune from the watchful eyes of the National Security Agency.
By By Naureen Shah, ACLU Legislative Counsel
Radar Speed Signs, Machine Monitoring, and Chilling Effects
I’ve always found radar speed signs to be interesting indicators of our relationship with technology, and I think how we relate to these signs can tell us something about privacy and technology.
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
CCA Continues to Cite Misleading Study It Funded
As an academic, it’s my job to be a skeptic.
By By Christopher Petrella, Researcher, U.C. Berkeley
Government Privacy Panel: One Step Behind Congress, the Courts, and the American People
When Congress, the courts, and the American people disagree with you, it's probably time to re-think your position.
By By Neema Singh Guliani, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
The Privacy Oversight Board Should Have Listened to Senator Obama
In 2008, Barack Obama, then a U.S. senator, realized that if an important surveillance law were to pass, Americans’ right to privacy in their international communications would be (in the later words of the Department of Justice) “significantly diminished, if not completely eliminated.”
By By Alex Abdo, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project
The Civil Rights Act at 50: A Conversation with Rep. John Conyers
Listening to Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) speak is like having a real life history lesson. Mr. Conyers is the second-longest serving member of Congress, having been in office for nearly 50 years. After participating in the March on Washington in 1963, he entered Congress in the middle of the fight for civil rights and, as a leading civil rights activist himself, has played a key role in passing, protecting and expanding the our nation’s most vital civil rights laws.
By By Deborah J. Vagins, ACLU Washington Legislative Office
Drones, Accidents, and Secrecy
The Washington Post recently ran some amazing articles on the safety record of drones. The three-part series focuses on the more than 400 large U.S. military drones that have crashed overseas, domestic U.S. crashes of military drones inside and outside military airspace, and the record of incidents of small drones coming dangerously close to civilian aircraft within the United States. Fortunately nobody has been killed in any crashes yet, but it all makes for gripping reading.
By By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
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