Good news today for the location privacy of all California FasTrak users.Legislation authored by State Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) to protect the privacy of drivers using the FasTrak payment system for toll bridges and roads was signed into law today by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

As Simitian points out, "your travel history is a road map to your personal life. Where you've been, and when, day after day, year after year, reveals a lot about you."

Executive Branch Spying Powers Already Too Broad, Says ACLU

Washington – The Obama administration is seeking to expand the government's ability to conduct invasive surveillance online, according to a report in The New York Times today.

ACLU of Northern California Challenge to The Abuse of Immigration Detainers Leads to Reforms by ICE

A man named Carlos was waiting at a bus stop in San Bernardino County one recent evening when officers stopped and questioned him "because he looked suspicious." When Carlos was unable to show identification, the police arrested him. Carlos, who works as a janitor, has lived in the United States for 12 years and is married to a U.S. citizen, was jailed and slated for deportation.

The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are calling for answers to critical privacy and safety questions that loom over a controversial federal program to track preschoolers with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips at George Miller III Head Start program in Richmond, California.