/issues/technology/blog/index.xml Make your voice heard! Subscribe to this feed to stay informed about opportunities to take action on urgent civil liberties legislation. en-us Thursday, September 2, 201011:09:10 PST http://www.aclunc.org/news/rss_feeds.shtml Weblog Editor 2.0 croallos@aclunc.org (Catrina Roallos) croallos@aclunc.org (Catrina Roallos) 60 Daily compilation of links to articles related to technology and civil liberties. /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_september_2,_2010.shtml /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_september_2,_2010.shtml September 2, 2010 PST A new report explores racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in access to education, employment, and housing. It found that these factors relate to how likely it is someone will be incarcerated, and that lack of data collection hinders the ability to address this problem. As a result lawmakers are creating policies without fully understanding the racial, ethnic, and gender impact of their decisions. /news/press_releases/report_on_disparities_and_the_criminal_justice_system_finds_that_lack_of_data_leads_to_bad_policy.shtml /news/press_releases/report_on_disparities_and_the_criminal_justice_system_finds_that_lack_of_data_leads_to_bad_policy.shtml September 2, 2010 PST Download the Summer 2010 ACLU-NC Newsletter and read about our latest events and initiatives. /news/print_newsletters/summer_2010.shtml /news/print_newsletters/summer_2010.shtml September 2, 2010 PST Daily compilation of links to articles related to technology and civil liberties. /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_september_1,_2010.shtml /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_september_1,_2010.shtml September 1, 2010 PST On Tuesday, preschoolers in Richmond, California showed up for school and were handed jerseys embedded with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips. But when it comes to student safety, insecure RFID creates more problems than it solves. We hope to work with the school officials and parents in Richmond to help them take a good look at this program and whether it properly protects the privacy and security of their young children. /issues/technology/blog/chipping_students_creates_more_problems_than_it_solves.shtml /issues/technology/blog/chipping_students_creates_more_problems_than_it_solves.shtml September 1, 2010 PST New lethal injection procedures were recently approved by a state agency, but those procedures have NOT been approved by a judge and an injunction against executions has NOT been lifted. But the Governor and AG have not stopped—they are moving forward with preparing for an execution and asking for more execution dates. /action/take_action/tell_the_governor_and_the_attorney_general_to_follow_the_rules.shtml /action/take_action/tell_the_governor_and_the_attorney_general_to_follow_the_rules.shtml September 1, 2010 PST Practical tips about interacting with police officers in California, with ''dos'' and ''don'ts'' sections about being stopped for questioning, stopped in your car, and being arrested or taken to a police station. /issues/criminal_justice/police_practices/your_rights_the_police.shtml /issues/criminal_justice/police_practices/your_rights_the_police.shtml September 1, 2010 PST Last Friday, Judge James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York held that cell phone tracking invades Americans' reasonable expectations of privacy and is thus protected by the Fourth Amendment. We believe that Judge Orenstein got it exactly right. /issues/technology/blog/judge_no_difference_betweeen_cell_phone_tracking_and_gps_vehicle_tracking.shtml /issues/technology/blog/judge_no_difference_betweeen_cell_phone_tracking_and_gps_vehicle_tracking.shtml August 31, 2010 PST Daily compilation of links to articles related to technology and civil liberties. /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_31,_2010.shtml /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_31,_2010.shtml August 31, 2010 PST Daily compilation of links to articles related to technology and civil liberties. /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_30,_2010.shtml /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_30,_2010.shtml August 30, 2010 PST Every year tens of thousands of people in California are arrested for simply possessing small amounts of marijuana. These arrests overload our already stressed courts and jails. California's Proposition 19 offers a remedy that will move marijuana policy in a direction that makes sense. /issues/criminal_justice/moving_towards_rational_marijuana_policy_california_aclu_affiliates_endorse_prop_19.shtml /issues/criminal_justice/moving_towards_rational_marijuana_policy_california_aclu_affiliates_endorse_prop_19.shtml August 30, 2010 PST Daily compilation of links to articles related to technology and civil liberties. /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_27,_2010.shtml /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_27,_2010.shtml August 27, 2010 PST The thousands of women California sends into military service are being deprived of the fundamental right to make pregnancy decisions because federal law prohibits almost all abortion services at U.S. military hospitals. To obtain safe, legal abortion care servicewomen must sometimes travel abroad (and arrange leave) or take their chances with an unsafe, illegal, local or self-induced abortion. Congress should end the ban on private funding of abortion at military facilities. Our Armed Services women deserve more from their country. /issues/reproductive_rights/california's_military_women_support_our_freedom._shouldn't_we_support_theirs.shtml /issues/reproductive_rights/california's_military_women_support_our_freedom._shouldn't_we_support_theirs.shtml August 27, 2010 PST Is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) spying on Muslim communities in Berkeley, Fresno, Visalia, San Jose or other Northern California communities? We don't know. But the ACLU of Northern California is determined to find out. /issues/government_surveillance/is_the_fbi_spying_on_muslims_in_california.shtml /issues/government_surveillance/is_the_fbi_spying_on_muslims_in_california.shtml August 27, 2010 PST Daily compilation of links to articles related to technology and civil liberties. /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_26,_2010.shtml /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_26,_2010.shtml August 26, 2010 PST Daily compilation of links to articles related to technology and civil liberties. /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_25,_2010.shtml /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_25,_2010.shtml August 25, 2010 PST SXSW Interactive is a major annual technology and media conference. We need your help to make sure that privacy is on the SXSW agenda. Vote for our SXSW panels before Friday, August 27th. /issues/technology/blog/help_get_privacy_on_the_agenda_at_sxsw_-_vote_for_aclu-nc_panels.shtml /issues/technology/blog/help_get_privacy_on_the_agenda_at_sxsw_-_vote_for_aclu-nc_panels.shtml August 25, 2010 PST The American Civil Liberties Union, the Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco Bay Guardian filed a lawsuit Aug. 24 against the FBI to speed the release of FBI records on the investigation and surveillance of Muslim communities in the Bay Area. /news/press_releases/lawsuit_seeks_information_on_fbi_activities_in_northern_ca_muslim_communities.shtml /news/press_releases/lawsuit_seeks_information_on_fbi_activities_in_northern_ca_muslim_communities.shtml August 24, 2010 PST Hundreds of millions of sensitive records have been compromised by data breaches. If your personal records were compromised by a breach, wouldn't you want companies to be required to tell you important information about the breach and how to protect yourself? Then ask Governor Schwarzenegger to sign SB 1166, which standardizes the details that must be disclosed to security breach victims. /issues/technology/blog/urge_gov._schwarzenegger_to_sign_security_breach_notification_bill.shtml /issues/technology/blog/urge_gov._schwarzenegger_to_sign_security_breach_notification_bill.shtml August 23, 2010 PST Daily compilation of links to articles related to technology and civil liberties. /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_23,_2010.shtml /issues/technology/blog/technology_civil_liberties_news_roundup_-_august_23,_2010.shtml August 23, 2010 PST