Bio
Vera Eidelman is a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on the rights to free speech and privacy in the digital age. She focuses on the free speech rights of protesters and young people, online speech, and genetic privacy. She has litigated cases including Dakota Rural Action v. Noem, a constitutional challenge to “riot boosting” laws that chilled protest, In re Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury, in defense of the right to write, publish, and distribute books others sought to ban as “obscene,” and ACLU v. Clearview AI, a state privacy law challenge to nonconsensual faceprinting. She has also represented a racial justice protester, in Mckesson v. Doe, and a high school cheerleader, in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., before the Supreme Court.
Vera was previously a William J. Brennan fellow with the ACLU, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before joining the ACLU, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Featured work
Feb 5, 2021
The Streets Belong to the People — Always Have, Always Will
![Angela Miracle Gladue, center, a member of the Frog Lake First Nations, attends a rally in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe near the White House](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/02/Standing-Rock-Header-Image-400x400.jpg)
Jan 7, 2021
Clearview's Dangerous Misreading of the First Amendment Could Spell the End of Privacy Laws
![Facial recognition software scanning people walking across a busy intersection.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/01/WEB21-Face-Recognition-Crowd-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x400.jpg)
Jun 3, 2020
The Response to Protests Against Police Brutality is Not More Brutality
![Protests turned violent on Saturday, May 30 as thousands of demonstrators marched along LA streets](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/Policing-of-Protests-Header-Image-400x400.jpg)
Oct 24, 2019
South Dakota Governor Caves on Attempted Efforts to Silence Pipeline Protesters
![Water Protectors marching](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/10/web19-water-protectors-1a-blog-1110x740-400x400.jpg)
Oct 2, 2019
Rapid DNA Machines in Police Departments Need Regulation
![placeholder](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/10/web19-rapid-dna-machine-credit-ap-photo-bruce-schreiner-blogimage-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Apr 17, 2019
There’s No Such Thing as a Right Not to Be Called a Nazi
![Supreme Court in the Winter](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-supremecourtwinter-1160x768_0-400x400.jpg)
Apr 2, 2019
The Government’s System of Censoring Its Former Employees Is Unconstitutional
![Capitol](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-capitol-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Apr 1, 2019
The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented a New Legal Term to Target Pipeline Protesters
![Pipeline Protestor](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-standingrockprotest-1160x768-400x400.jpg)
Feb 7, 2019
When Colleges Confine Free Speech to a ‘Zone,’ It Isn’t Free
![Free speech zone sign in front of statue](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web19-free-speech-zone-1160x768-400x400.jpg)