Publication
May 29, 2019
Stethoscope Medical Records Stock
  • Privacy and Surveillance

The government needs to get a warrant if it wants access to our private health information

Choosing between obtaining health care and giving up one’s privacy rights is no choice at all.
Publication
May 28, 2019
Scales of justice with green and purple color effect
  • Criminal Justice Law Reform

District attorneys can help end mass incarceration

This country has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and Massachusetts is not immune.
Publication
May 17, 2019
A slide from NYPD FIS describing "removal of facial expression" technique
  • Privacy and Surveillance|
  • +1 Issue

Police are copying and pasting body parts in face recognition searches

New reports from Georgetown show police are using face surveillance tech in highly subjective, often bizarre ways. We need a moratorium now.
Publication
May 15, 2019
Surveillance Camera Stock by Rama
  • Privacy and Surveillance

Who is watching your face? Absent regulation, it's hard to know.

Companies and government agencies big and small are making plans to track us by our physical characteristics. Absent law, we may never know it's happening.
Publication
May 1, 2019
Workers protest against Google's handling of sexual misconduct allegations
  • Free Speech and Expression|
  • +1 Issue

There’s a battle brewing at Google over employee speech. The outcome affects us all.

Retaliating against Big Tech employees who push their employers to do the right thing is a threat to us all.
Publication
May 1, 2019
Rahsaan Hall and Dan McFadden

Two ACLU of Massachusetts advocates honored

This month, we celebrate two ACLU of Massachusetts advocates who’ve been honored for their tireless work on behalf of civil rights and civil liberties.
Publication
Apr 30, 2019
Cars sitting in traffic
  • Privacy and Surveillance

Virginia judge declares Police Department’s warehousing of license plate data illegal

Police across the country conduct dragnet surveillance of motorists using license plate readers. But a Virginia court has declared the practice illegal.
Publication
Apr 30, 2019
Customs and Border Patrol officer checks someone's passport at an airport
  • Privacy and Surveillance

We got U.S. Border officials to testify under oath. Here’s what we found out.

ICE and CBP allow unfettered, warrantless searches of travelers’ digital devices, and empower officers to dodge the Fourth Amendment.
Publication
Apr 23, 2019
Black iPhone Stock
  • Privacy and Surveillance

Mass. high court requires warrants for stingray, GPS phone surveillance

The Mass. Supreme Judicial Court just issued a ruling requiring police to get warrants before tracking cellphones in real time, including with stingrays.