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Your Questions Answered: How Data Centers Erode Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
ACLU experts break down how data centers negatively impact communities, violate civil liberties, and how we can respond.
By Jina John
Your Questions Answered: How Data Centers Erode Civil Rights and Civil LibertiesPodcast
The Lawyer Who Changed the Way We Look at Discrimination
Years before the Supreme Court recognized its first sex discrimination claim, a visionary lawyer named Pauli Murray was building a case that said the 14th Amendment protects against both race and...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
This Supreme Court Term: Our Rights and Freedoms at Stake
The ACLU could have its busiest Supreme Court term ever, with potential cases on immigration, voting rights, and religious freedom in schools.
By Cecillia Wang
This Supreme Court Term: Our Rights and Freedoms at Stake
What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today
In "Let the Record Show," the ACLU's newest podcast, we discuss how office politics gave courts the power to decide if political decisions are constitutional. It's led to an array of landmark decisions that continue to protect our civil liberties today.
By Vanessa Mbonu, Hibah Ansari
What 'Let the Record Show' Reveals About a 200-Year-Old Petty Paperwork Problem That Gave Courts Its Power Today
We Launched the First Comprehensive Civil Rights Review of Mass Deportations. Here’s How It’s Impacting Democracy.
ACLU breaks down findings from our latest report on how mass deportations are breaking our democracy.
By Naureen Shah
We Launched the First Comprehensive Civil Rights Review of Mass Deportations. Here’s How It’s Impacting Democracy.Podcast
The Lawyer Who Changed the Way We Look at Discrimination
Years before the Supreme Court recognized its first sex discrimination claim, a visionary lawyer named Pauli Murray was building a case that said the 14th Amendment protects against both race and...
Protecting Rights Up and Down The Ballot
We are spending the most we ever have to protect reproductive freedoms, voting rights, and democracy.
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Privacy Rights Do Not Come With a Price Tag
Apps you use every day collect and sell sensitive data that could wind up in government hands without your knowing it. A new bill would change that.
Apps you use every day collect and sell sensitive data that could wind up in government hands without your knowing it. A new bill would change that.
The Public Should Have Access to the Surveillance Court’s Opinions
Decisions related to the surveillance of Americans should not be kept hidden from the public.
By Charlie Hogle
Decisions related to the surveillance of Americans should not be kept hidden from the public.
By Charlie Hogle
Daunte Wright Should Never Have Been Stopped
On At Liberty, Paige Fernandez and Somil Trivedi respond to Daunte Wright’s death.
By Yael Sheinfeld
On At Liberty, Paige Fernandez and Somil Trivedi respond to Daunte Wright’s death.
By Yael Sheinfeld
COVID-19 May Fade, But Will the Tracking Tools Built to Fight It?
We must ensure that temporary COVID-19 data surveillance infrastructures do not needlessly outlast this once-in-a-century pandemic.
We must ensure that temporary COVID-19 data surveillance infrastructures do not needlessly outlast this once-in-a-century pandemic.
Special Report: Chase Strangio on the Legislative Assault on Trans Youth
At Liberty unpacks a year in which more than 100 bills attacking trans people have been introduced across the country, and where the ACLU is...
By ACLU
At Liberty unpacks a year in which more than 100 bills attacking trans people have been introduced across the country, and where the ACLU is...
By ACLU
Daunte Wright Should Never Have Been Stopped
On Sunday, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after being pulled over for traffic violations. The violations? He had expired tags on his license and air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror of his car. This story is...
On Sunday, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed by a police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota after being pulled over for traffic violations. The violations? He had expired tags on his license and air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror of his car. This story is...
The Computer Got it Wrong: Why We’re Taking the Detroit Police to Court Over a Faulty Face Recognition 'Match'
Face recognition technology turns everybody into a suspect and threatens our civil rights.
By Jeremy Shur, Deborah Won
Face recognition technology turns everybody into a suspect and threatens our civil rights.
By Jeremy Shur, Deborah Won
Police Must Not Create Digital Dossiers of Data from our Phones and Computers
Courts are starting to scrutinize free-wheeling searches of the libraries’ worth of private information stored on our electronic devices.
Courts are starting to scrutinize free-wheeling searches of the libraries’ worth of private information stored on our electronic devices.
The Oscar Nominated Film Uplifting the Disability Rights Revolution
This week, we are revisiting one of our favorite episodes featuring a conversation with the filmmakers of the documentary, “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution.” Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham use archival footage and interviews to tell the story of a summer camp that seeded a disability...
This week, we are revisiting one of our favorite episodes featuring a conversation with the filmmakers of the documentary, “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution.” Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham use archival footage and interviews to tell the story of a summer camp that seeded a disability...
Special Report: Chase Strangio on the Legislative Assault on Trans Youth
The Arkansas legislature just passed HB 1570, a bill that would ban gender confirming health care for trans youth in the state. This comes just one day after Arkansas’ Governor Asa Hutchinson, vetoed the bill amidst pleas from doctors, social workers, and parents of transgender youth. Arkansas...
The Arkansas legislature just passed HB 1570, a bill that would ban gender confirming health care for trans youth in the state. This comes just one day after Arkansas’ Governor Asa Hutchinson, vetoed the bill amidst pleas from doctors, social workers, and parents of transgender youth. Arkansas...