privacy
ACLU warns on proposal to broaden state wiretap law
The following statement may be attributed to Gavi Wolfe, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.
Blog: Pentagon love affair and the rise of the surveillance state
The FBI was able to read the emails of former CIA director David Petraeus without a shred of evidence that a crime had been committed and without bothering to obtain a warrant from a court. What does that mean for the rest of us? Read our executive director Carol Rose's "On Liberty" blog at Boston.com.
Podcast: So you think the government doesn't have a file on you?
Through automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), state, local and federal governments are collecting information about where you go and when--regardless of whether you have broken the law. How do they store this information? How is it secured? How is it used? The ACLU recently sued the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, seeking answers to these and other questions.
ACLU sues federal agencies over license plate reader information
Demands records on how ordinary citizens' data is kept and shared.
