We at the ACLU of Massachusetts are working hard to document privacy abuses and government surveillance throughout the Commonwealth, but your help can make our project much more successful! Join us! What can you do? Help fill in our map of surveillance...
Technology advances at accelerating speeds each year. In the United States, a lot of the best and brightest minds and research dollars are devoted to engineering new military, surveillance and law enforcement technologies. Many of these technologies of surveillance, repression and control...
Location privacy Network-based location technologies Historic cell site location information: The SJC has established a warrant requirement to obtain historical telephone call cell site location information of six hours or more. Commonwealth v. Augustine, 472 Mass. 448 (2015) The Court held that...
A school district in New York has flipped the switch to activate a facial recognition system across hundreds of cameras in its school buildings, drawing sharp criticism from civil rights advocates and concerned parents and students. The move comes as school administrators...
Yesterday the First Circuit became the first federal court of appeals to hear oral argument on the constitutionality of the warrantless placement of a secret video camera on top of a utility pole after the ACLU’s 2018 victory in the Supreme Court...
A state judge in Virginia ruled earlier this month that license plate tracking data collected by automatic license plate reader (ALPR) systems are personally identifiable information, outlawing their storage when law enforcement has no good reason to collect and retain them. The...
Midday yesterday, activists affiliated with immigrants rights groups NWDC Resistance and Mijente donned Jeff Bezos masks outside Amazon’s Seattle Spheres building to protest the tech giant’s collaboration with ICE. The activists demanded Amazon stop marketing and selling its face surveillance technology, Rekognition,...
Unfortunately, Congress has begun scratching an old, FBI-inspired itch again. Staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee, with the support of chair Senator Chuck Grassley and ranking democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, are reportedly in talks with technology companies about legislation that would most...
PRIVATE/PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE PARTNERSHIP TO FUEL TRUMP’S DEPORTATION MACHINE From Verge: ICE is about to start tracking license plates across the US Verge reports that Immigration Customs Enforcement is expanding its agents’ access to the country’s largest location tracking database, maintained by a private corporation...
In conversations about civil liberties reform, we often come face to face with the inescapable fact that our world and our issues are interconnected. It’s not possible to fully address systemic racism in the criminal system without also addressing economic injustice. Drug...