EFF and MuckRock have filed hundreds of public records requests with law enforcement agencies around the country to reveal how data collected from automated license…
By Derrick Broze Documents released to the American Civil Liberties Union detail how the CIA considered using a controversial psychotropic drug as a ‘truth serum’….
By Hugh Handeyside, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project An American family that underwent a harrowing detention at the hands of U.S. Customs and…
By Ashley Gorski, Staff Attorney, ACLU National Security Project On Tuesday, in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, a federal privacy watchdog released an…
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man On June 15, 1215, King John sat in a field in Runnymede, England, surrounded by angry nobles. His Barons—the big…
Activist Post Editor’s Note: As we’ve been covering for some time, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a mandate that’s been 15 years…
By John W. Whitehead “If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington…
By Karen Melton Stewart So, suddenly someone you are related to, someone you know pretty well, or your spouse, begins to have some bad luck,…
By Shahid Buttar A proposed amendment to the Chicago municipal code would allow businesses to use face surveillance systems that could invade biometric and location…
By Hina Shamsi, Director, ACLU National Security Project Imagine: You’ve never been charged with any crime, yet the government blacklists you as a terrorism threat…
By Michael Maharrey The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) plans to expand a surveillance program that tracks the location of millions of everyday people through pictures…
By Aaron Kesel The TSA is using facial recognition technology with a “biometric confirmation” rate of 85% for testing purposes at airports. U.S. Customs and…
By Nathan Sheard For too long, the New York Police Department has secretly deployed cutting-edge spy tech, without notice to the public. Many of these…
By Aaron Kesel According to a new report by Forbes, for the first time in the U.S. and possibly the world, law enforcement have accessed…
