News & Commentary about Surveillance Technologies
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![Protestors react to a low flying helicopter during a march in Brooklyn, New York.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/Police-Surveillance-Protests-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Jun 24, 2020
Protests, Aerial Surveillance, and Police Defunding
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Jun 24, 2020
Wrongfully Arrested Because Face Recognition Can’t Tell Black People Apart
![Facial recognition software scanning a crowd.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/WEB20-Facial-Recognition-Software-Scanning-Crowd-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
Jun 24, 2020
The Untold Number of People Implicated in Crimes They Didn’t Commit Because of Face Recognition
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Jun 16, 2020
How is Face Recognition Surveillance Technology Racist?
![Facial scan over black woman's face to assess identification.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/Microsoft-Face-Recognition-400x266.jpg)
Jun 10, 2020
Microsoft Says it Supports Racial Justice. Will it Refuse to Power Discriminatory Police Surveillance?
![Clearview AI facial recognition software logo on the glowing screen and blurred faces from social media on the background](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/05/Clearview-AI-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
May 28, 2020
We’re Taking Clearview AI to Court to End its Privacy-Destroying Face Surveillance Activities
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Apr 9, 2020
ACLU Lawsuit Over Baltimore Spy Planes Sets Up Historic Surveillance Battle
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Mar 27, 2020
Those “Free” Remote Learning Apps Have a High Cost: Your Student’s Privacy
![A passenger using a facial recognition kiosk in the background with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer watching in the foreground.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/WEB20-Airport-Facial-Recognition-Kiosk-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Mar 12, 2020
The Government Has a Secret Plan to Track Everyone’s Faces at Airports. We’re Suing.