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Metadata matters

A study published today in the Journal of Internet Medical Research finds that analyzing GPS and communications records from your smartphone can predict with near 90% accuracy whether or not you're depressed.

July 15, 2015

Time to stop grumbling about fixing state public records law

We're so close.

July 15, 2015

Late for work, yet still free

Boston commuters were understandably peeved when protesters formed human barricades on Interstate 93 north and south of the city last

July 13, 2015

Actual conversation with a TSA agent

I have my ACLU bag (filled with SCOTUS opinions for my 4th of July reading, of course), and the TSA agent sees the bag and asks, "Do you work for them?"

And I say yes.

And he asks, "Are you an attorney?"

And I say yes.

July 11, 2015

The 2015 Muzzle Awards

Dan Kennedy's annual 2015 Muzzle Awards—now hosted by WGBH—"come amid what can only be described as a crisis in transparency on Beacon Hill and throughout Massachusetts.

July 8, 2015

Boston Globe highlights ACLU board member Shannon Erwin as emerging Muslim leader

ACLU board member Shannon Erwin knows the civil liberties threats faced by local Muslims: she joined other Muslim lawyers to provide access to legal counsel to Muslims contacted by law enforcement after the 2013 Marathon bombings, and last year, she cofounded the

July 8, 2015