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@aclu

@aclu
52 posts
2023-05-18
This law tramples on our free speech rights under the guise of national security and lays the groundwork for excessive government control over the internet. Elected officials do not have the right to selectively censor entire social media apps based on their country of origin.
2023-05-18 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signs the country's first bill that bans TikTok in a state, set to go into effect on January 1, 2024

Ban is slated to take effect next year—if it survives expected litigation  —  Montana's governor signed the country's first bill that outright bans TikTok …

2023-04-16
This ban is censorship, pure and simple. Hundreds of thousands of people in Montana use TikTok to communicate, get the news, and express themselves. We won't stop fighting against these unconstitutional bans — in Montana and at the federal level. https://www.cnn.com/...
2023-04-16 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Montana lawmakers approve a first-of-its-kind bill that bans TikTok and bars app stores from offering the app within the state, starting on January 1, 2024

Supporters of the first-of-its-kind-bill expect legal challenges if the governor signs the legislation

2023-04-15
This ban is censorship, pure and simple. Hundreds of thousands of people in Montana use TikTok to communicate, get the news, and express themselves. We won't stop fighting against these unconstitutional bans — in Montana and at the federal level. https://www.cnn.com/...
2023-04-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Montana lawmakers approve a first-of-its-kind bill that bans TikTok and bars app stores from offering the app within the state, starting on January 1, 2024

Supporters of the first-of-its-kind-bill expect legal challenges if the governor signs the legislation

2023-04-07
This is yet another example of a corporation being careless with our most personal data — and why we need robust privacy laws. https://www.aclu.org/...
2023-04-07 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Tesla staff privately shared videos from customers' car cameras from 2019 to 2022 on an internal messaging system, including a child being hit by a car

Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.”

2023-03-08
Without a tie-breaking fifth commissioner, the FCC can't pursue important work like expanding broadband access and restoring net neutrality. President Biden and Congress must do their jobs by nominating and confirming a new commissioner as soon as possible. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-08 View on X
Washington Post

Biden's FCC nominee Gigi Sohn tells the White House she is dropping out after her nomination stalled for 16 months amid industry opposition and personal attacks

a huge setback. As we learned when I authored CA's successful net neutrality law, these industries will stop at nothing to kill pro-consumer laws https://www.washingtonpost.com/ .....

2023-02-28
A ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans who use the app to express themselves daily. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-28 View on X
Reuters

The White House gives federal agencies 30 days to ensure they don't have TikTok installed on government devices and 120 days to adjust IT contracts with vendors

report Tweets: @aclu : A ban on TikTok would violate the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans who use the app to express themselves daily. https://twitter.com/... Govern...

2023-02-22
Section 230 plays a crucial role in creating online spaces for creativity, education, politics, and collaboration. Without Section 230, we stand to lose the internet as we know it. https://apnews.com/...
2023-02-22 View on X
Washington Post

A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to struggle to define where Section 230's legal shield should end

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that could shift the foundations of internet law.

2023-01-29
Surveillance doesn't make students safer — especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ...
2023-01-29 View on X
The 74

Gaggle, which offers a tool to monitor online student communications, plans to stop flagging LGBTQ keywords in school assignments, after discrimination concerns

especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ... @evan_greer : In a world where LGBTQ+ youth are being...

2023-01-28
Surveillance doesn't make students safer — especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ...
2023-01-28 View on X
The 74

Gaggle, which offers a tool for monitoring online student communication, says it will no longer flag LGBTQ keywords in assignments after discrimination concerns

especially when it puts LGBTQ students at a higher risk of being flagged and forcibly outed. https://www.the74million.org/ ... @cendemtech : “...the keywords put LGBTQ students at ...

2023-01-26
This is the right call. Like it or not, President Trump is one of the country's leading political figures and the public has a strong interest in hearing his speech. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
Axios

Meta plans to reinstate Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks with “new guardrails to deter repeat offenses”, after a two-year ban

- “We've always believed that Americans should be able to hear from the people who want to lead the country,” Clegg told Axios.

2022-07-28
Most of us don't know what personal information is being transmitted from our vehicles, let alone who exactly is collecting, analyzing, and sharing that data, or who the data is being shared with. We deserve to have control over what data leaves our cars.https://themarkup.org/...
2022-07-28 View on X
The Markup

A look at 37 companies within the connected vehicle data marketplace, a largely unregulated industry that some estimate will be worth $300B-$800B by 2030

A firehose of sensitive data from your vehicle is flowing to a group of companies you've probably never heard of Tweets: @funnymonkey , @themarkup , @jaycstanley , @nabihasyed , an...

2022-06-26
It's scary, but not a hypothetical threat. In 2017, an online search for abortion medication was used to charge a woman with second-degree murder. In 2015, a woman's text messages about ordering abortion medication contributed to her conviction. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-06-26 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Meta told staff not to discuss the Roe v. Wade ruling on wide-reaching internal channels, citing a company memo issued after the May draft opinion leak

Meta told its workers on Friday not to openly discuss the Supreme Court's ruling eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion …

It's scary, but not a hypothetical threat. In 2017, an online search for abortion medication was used to charge a woman with second-degree murder. In 2015, a woman's text messages about ordering abortion medication contributed to her conviction. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-06-26 View on X
Reuters

As anti-abortion state laws kick in, law enforcement could force tech companies to give up users' search history, geolocation, and other pregnancy-related data

The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …

2022-06-25
It's scary, but not a hypothetical threat. In 2017, an online search for abortion medication was used to charge a woman with second-degree murder. In 2015, a woman's text messages about ordering abortion medication contributed to her conviction. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2022-06-25 View on X
Reuters

As state laws limiting abortion kick in, tech companies could be forced by law enforcement to hand over users' search histories and other pregnancy-related data

The technology industry is bracing for the uncomfortable possibility of having to hand over pregnancy-related data to law enforcement …

2022-06-09
Police are capitalizing on secret data collection to obtain unprecedented surveillance powers that are essentially unapproved and unsupervised by democratic processes. This must end. https://www.forbes.com/...
2022-06-09 View on X
Forbes

Unsealed docs: the US Secret Service ordered travel companies Sabre and Travelport to spy on a Russian hacker for two years, providing weekly location reports

Thomas Brewster / Forbes :

2022-05-19
Today, we and @ACLUTx have joined an amicus brief to the Supreme Court urging the court to block a Texas law which would prohibit social media platforms from moderating users' posts due to their content.
2022-05-19 View on X
Washington Post

Texas asks SCOTUS to keep the state's social media law in effect; AG Ken Paxton argues that social media platforms should be regulated as common carriers

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post :

2022-05-12
The driverless cars circling San Francisco were never meant to be used for police surveillance — and they never should be. Giving the police access to the massive amounts of information they collect is a recipe for abuse. https://www.vice.com/...
2022-05-12 View on X
VICE

A San Francisco Police department training document notes that video footage from continuously recording autonomous vehicles can be obtained as evidence

and they never should be. Giving the police access to the massive amounts of information they collect is a recipe for abuse. https://www.vice.com/... @becomingdatasci : Cops have a...

2022-03-08
Wrongful arrests are what happen when police rely on biased, dangerous technology like face recognition tech. https://www.wired.com/...
2022-03-08 View on X
Wired

Three Black men discuss the impact of wrongful arrests made by police departments in New Jersey and Michigan using facial recognition tech

Robert Williams, Michael Oliver, and Nijeer Parks were misidentified by facial recognition software.  The impact cast a long shadow. … APPLICATION

2022-02-12
BREAKING: Newly declassified documents reveal that the CIA has been secretly conducting massive surveillance programs that capture Americans' private information.
2022-02-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Senators Wyden and Heinrich: declassified docs show a CIA bulk surveillance program collecting Americans' data without clear judicial or congressional oversight

The lawmakers called for the immediate declassification of details about the surveillance program and what data was collected Source: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden … .

This surveillance is done without any court approval, and with few, if any, safeguards imposed by Congress to protect our civil liberties. https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ ...
2022-02-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Senators Wyden and Heinrich: declassified docs show a CIA bulk surveillance program collecting Americans' data without clear judicial or congressional oversight

The lawmakers called for the immediate declassification of details about the surveillance program and what data was collected Source: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden … .