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SD Council Supports AB 392; SF Sups Oppose Face Surveillance

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|Date: May 15, 2019
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SD Council Supports AB 392; SF Sups Oppose Face Surveillance

SF Board of Sups Approves Historic Face Surveillance Ban and Oversight Law (From Press Release) - Today, ...

SF Board of Sups Approves Historic Face Surveillance Ban and Oversight Law (From Press Release) - Today, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the Stop Secret Surveillance Ordinance, a histori ...

May 15, 2019
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Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology

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|Date: May 12, 2019
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Personal Information Treated Like Raw Material for Surveillance Technology

By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold without your ...

By Jake Snow The information that you share with a company should not be repurposed or sold without your consent. But companies are building algorithms from massive repositories of personal informatio ...

May 12, 2019
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Electric Scooters Are Racing to Collect Your Data

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|Date: July 29, 2018
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Electric Scooters Are Racing to Collect Your Data

By Nomi Conway As scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime scramble to get scooters on the street, they are ...

By Nomi Conway As scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime scramble to get scooters on the street, they are also racing to gather data, and have failed to take the time and steps necessary to properly a ...

July 29, 2018
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Congress Just Passed a Terrible Surveillance Law. Now What?

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|Date: January 21, 2018
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Congress Just Passed a Terrible Surveillance Law. Now What?

By Neema Singh Guliani Both Democrats and Republicans deserve sharp criticism for continuing to allow the ...

By Neema Singh Guliani Both Democrats and Republicans deserve sharp criticism for continuing to allow the NSA to engage in mass, warrantless spying. Congress today missed a historic opportunity to ref ...

January 21, 2018
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Congress Votes to Give Administration Greater Spy Powers

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|Date: January 12, 2018
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Congress Votes to Give Administration Greater Spy Powers

By Neema Singh Guliani and Elizabeth Beavers House leadership today once again caved to irresponsible fea ...

By Neema Singh Guliani and Elizabeth Beavers House leadership today once again caved to irresponsible fearmongering from the intelligence agencies and succeeded in jamming through a hastily drafted su ...

January 12, 2018
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Police Tracking Prescription Drugs

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|Date: August 08, 2017
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Police Tracking Prescription Drugs

By Beth Schwartzapfel As drug overdose deaths continue their record climb, Missouri last month became the ...

By Beth Schwartzapfel As drug overdose deaths continue their record climb, Missouri last month became the 50th state to launch a prescription drug monitoring program, or PDMP. These state-run database ...

August 08, 2017
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Will Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Data?

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|Date: June 07, 2017
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Will Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Data?

By Nathan Freed Wessler The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a landmark case that will det ...

By Nathan Freed Wessler The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a landmark case that will determine how the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution protects cell phone data that tracks the de ...

June 07, 2017
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New Documents Shed Light on the Government’s Surveillance of Americans

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|Date: April 23, 2017
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New Documents Shed Light on the Government’s Surveillance of Americans

By Ashley Gorski The ACLU today released more than a dozen new documents concerning the government’s warr ...

By Ashley Gorski The ACLU today released more than a dozen new documents concerning the government’s warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans. They were obtained from several intelligence age ...

April 23, 2017
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Reining In President Trump’s Ability to Spy

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|Date: February 22, 2017
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Reining In President Trump’s Ability to Spy

By Ashley Gorski It’s been just over a month since Donald J. Trump assumed the enormous powers of the U.S ...

By Ashley Gorski It’s been just over a month since Donald J. Trump assumed the enormous powers of the U.S. presidency, including the power to control the government’s far-reaching surveillance of Amer ...

February 22, 2017
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Monitoring Local Police Surveillance Equipment

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|Date: February 16, 2017
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Monitoring Local Police Surveillance Equipment

Editor’s note: The city of Davis may soon be looking into whether to have an ordinance that would monitor ...

Editor’s note: The city of Davis may soon be looking into whether to have an ordinance that would monitor the city police’s surveillance equipment. by Chad Marlow Donald Trump told the American public ...

February 16, 2017
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Trump Has the Keys to the Surveillance State, but CA Has a Long History of Changing the Locks

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|Date: January 20, 2017
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Trump Has the Keys to the Surveillance State, but CA Has a Long History of Changing the Locks

By Anna Porto When Donald Trump takes the oath of office later today, he will inherit an unprecedented su ...

By Anna Porto When Donald Trump takes the oath of office later today, he will inherit an unprecedented surveillance state that includes expansive powers and databases filled with information on millio ...

January 20, 2017
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Did WikiLeaks Act Appropriately During the Election?

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|Date: December 21, 2016
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Did WikiLeaks Act Appropriately During the Election?

Back in October and November, the Vanguard published two commentaries arguing that WikiLeaks had essentia ...

Back in October and November, the Vanguard published two commentaries arguing that WikiLeaks had essentially crossed the line by leaking selective emails that were essentially private, campaign commun ...

December 21, 2016
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Sunday Commentary: WikiLeaks and the Danger to Privacy

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 23, 2016
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Sunday Commentary: WikiLeaks and the Danger to Privacy

Last week, we had a discussion on whether WikiLeaks went too far in their release of hacked emails. It w ...

Last week, we had a discussion on whether WikiLeaks went too far in their release of hacked emails. It was a topic of discussion that Glen Greenwald (no relation) had on the Intercept with author and ...

October 23, 2016
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Documents Show DOJ Admitting that StingRays Spy on Innocent Bystanders

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|Date: November 08, 2015
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Documents Show DOJ Admitting that StingRays Spy on Innocent Bystanders

by Linda Lye Documents recently obtained by the ACLU of Northern California from the Department of Justic ...

by Linda Lye Documents recently obtained by the ACLU of Northern California from the Department of Justice confirm concerns about the federal government’s use of StingRays – a highly intrusive cell ph ...

November 08, 2015
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ACLU Celebrates String of Legislative Victories in California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2015
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ACLU Celebrates String of Legislative Victories in California

By Natasha Minsker Last fall, the three ACLU affiliates in California launched our newly expanded Sacrame ...

By Natasha Minsker Last fall, the three ACLU affiliates in California launched our newly expanded Sacramento office: the ACLU of California Center for Advocacy & Policy. One year ago, we had a sta ...

October 14, 2015
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Governor Vetoes Border Crossing Identification License Bill

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 10, 2015
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Governor Vetoes Border Crossing Identification License Bill

On Friday, Governor Brown vetoed SB 249, sponsored by Democratic Senator Ben Hueso, a measure to create “ ...

On Friday, Governor Brown vetoed SB 249, sponsored by Democratic Senator Ben Hueso, a measure to create “enhanced” driver's licenses (EDLs) to be used as an additional border-crossing identification d ...

October 10, 2015
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Enhanced Driver’s Licenses Would Be A Privacy and Civil Liberties Nightmare

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|Date: October 02, 2015
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Enhanced Driver’s Licenses Would Be A Privacy and Civil Liberties Nightmare

by Kevin Baker If someone tried to sell you security software that was ten years old, would you buy it? O ...

by Kevin Baker If someone tried to sell you security software that was ten years old, would you buy it? Of course, it wouldn’t make sense to spend money on something that’s now outdated and vulnerable ...

October 02, 2015
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Is the Sacramento Sheriff Spying on You?

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|Date: September 18, 2015
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Is the Sacramento Sheriff Spying on You?

by Linda Lye In response to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the Sacramento Sheriff has now admitted that i ...

by Linda Lye In response to a lawsuit brought by the ACLU, the Sacramento Sheriff has now admitted that it used intrusive cellphone surveillance technology – commonly known as a “StingRay” – without o ...

September 18, 2015
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Can California Lead on Privacy in Cloud Computing?

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|Date: September 06, 2015
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Can California Lead on Privacy in Cloud Computing?

by Anupam Chander My parents grew up in a pen and paper world, where most of their writings and records w ...

by Anupam Chander My parents grew up in a pen and paper world, where most of their writings and records were kept at home, in their offices, or with close confidantes. I grew up in a world of computer ...

September 06, 2015
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