News & Commentary about Privacy and Surveillance
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The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
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Nov 30, 2015
NSA, Unplugged: The Government Finally Stopped Vacuuming Up Our Phone Records
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Nov 19, 2015
Renewed Calls for More Surveillance Aren’t Based in Reality
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Oct 29, 2015
The NSA Claims It Wants to Be Transparent. How About Starting With Section 702?
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Oct 24, 2015
Court Chooses to Ignore Overwhelming Evidence of NSA’s Mass Internet Spying
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Oct 6, 2015
CFP 2015 Looks at Intelligence Abuses Then and Now
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Sep 25, 2015
How the NSA’s Mass Internet Spying Poisons Society
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Sep 24, 2015
Artist Trevor Paglen Talks to Jameel Jaffer About the Aesthetics of NSA Surveillance