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An Online Privacy Fact Sheet from the ACLU
The more photos you move online, the more digital footprints you leave behind.
The more photos you move online, the more digital footprints you leave behind.
THE MORE YOU READ & WATCH
ONLINE, THE MORE DIGITAL
FOOTPRINTS
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.
By Allie Bohm
ACLU National Office
By Sarah Roberts
ACLU National Office
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.
By Chris Calabrese
ACLU Washington Legislative Office
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.
Downloadable One-Page Information Sheets
Demand Your dotRights: An Online Privacy Fact Sheet from the ACLU [also in Spanish]