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Apr 09, 2012

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  • Read more about Online Photo Sites: Are You Overexposed?

An Online Privacy Fact Sheet from the ACLU

The more photos you move online, the more digital footprints you leave behind.

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Apr 09, 2012

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  • Read more about Book and Video Sites: Who's Peeking Over Your Shoulder?

An Online Privacy Fact Sheet from the ACLU

THE MORE YOU READ & WATCH
ONLINE, THE MORE DIGITAL
FOOTPRINTS

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Apr 09, 2012

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  • Read more about Prison Realignment: Fix the Funding Formula

After decades of tough-on-crime policies and draconian sentencing practices, California's correctional system - a state with one of the highest incarceration rates in a country with one of the highest incarceration rates - finally buckled under its own weight. Faced with last year's historic Supreme Court order requiring a reduction in prison overcrowding, the state enacted AB 109 to realign the criminal justice system. Under AB 109, most people convicted of low-level, non-violent offenses will no longer go to state prison.

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Apr 09, 2012

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  • Read more about Maryland Legislature to Employers: Hands Off Facebook Passwords

By Allie Bohm
ACLU National Office

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Apr 06, 2012

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  • Read more about Court Says No GPS Tracking? How About Cell Phone Tracking?

By Sarah Roberts
ACLU National Office

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Apr 05, 2012

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  • Read more about ACLU-NC and ALC Help Teach Free Speech Civics Lesson to Local H.S. Principal

With the help of the ACLU of Northern California and the Asian Law Caucus, three high school seniors in San Francisco recently gave their principal a basic civics lesson: students have free speech rights, online and off.

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Apr 03, 2012

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  • Read more about A Primer for the Online Privacy Multistakeholder Process

By Chris Calabrese
ACLU Washington Legislative Office

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Apr 02, 2012

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  • Read more about The Results From Our Nationwide Cell Phone Tracking Records Requests

By Allie Bohm
ACLU National Office
 

Ten. That's the number of law enforcement agencies that responded to our coordinated public records requests on cell phone location tracking and reported that they, in fact, do not track cell phones. The number of agencies queried: 383. The number that responded (so far): some 200.

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Mar 27, 2012

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  • Read more about Technology and Civil Liberties Resources - Demand Your dotRights!

Technology and Civil Liberties Resources - Demand Your dotRights!

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Demand Your dotRights: An Online Privacy Fact Sheet from the ACLU [also in Spanish]

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For Immediate Release: Mar 27, 2012
Media Contact: press@aclunc.org, (415) 621-2493

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  • Read more about FBI Using "Mosque Outreach" to Gather Intelligence
For several years, the FBI's San Francisco office conducted a "Mosque Outreach" program that collected and illegally stored intelligence about American Muslims' First Amendment-protected beliefs and religious practices, according to government documents released today by the American Civil Liberties Union from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Northern California, Asian Law Caucus and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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