Guest Commentary: How Trump’s Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms
By the ACLU A second Trump administration threatens to use executive authority to further limit First Amendment…
Guest Commentary: How Trump’s Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms
By the ACLU A second Trump administration threatens to use executive authority to further limit First…
Newsom Announces 480 High Tech Cameras in East Bay – Civil Rights Groups Opposed
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA- Governor Newsom announced on Friday that California is installing…
Commentary: It Comes Back to Vulnerability and Housing Insecurity
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – On Tuesday night, I held my breath during…
Guest Commentary: Warrantless Pole-Camera Surveillance by Police Is Dangerous
We’re calling on the court to clarify that long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at…
Advocacy Groups Blast Surveillance Proposal as Jenkins Holds a Talk in the Tenderloin
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – This week newly appointed DA Brooke Jenkins…
Supreme Court Allows Suit to Move Forward against FBI for Spying on Muslims
By Delilah Hammons WASHINGTON, DC – The ACLU released a statement this week confirming the U.S. Supreme…
ACLU Releases Footage to Prove Suspected CHP Aerial Spying on Police Brutality Protestors Wasn’t Paranoia
By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The ACLU of Northern California Wednesday confirmed what many…
ICE and CBP Are Secretly Tracking Us Using Stingrays
The public has a right to know if and how often ICE and CBP are using Stingrays….
The Recent Ploy to Break Encryption Is An Old Idea Proven Wrong
by Jon Callas This is the fourth and final in a series of essays about a proposal…
Adding a Ghost User to Our Encrypted Communications Is No ‘Crocodile Chip’
By Jon Callas Note: This is part three of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas…
When You Have Data, They Will Come
By Jon Callas Note: This is part two of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas…
The ‘Ghost User’ Ploy to Break Encryption Won’t Work
By Jon Callas Note: This is part one of a four-part series where security expert Jon Callas…
Legislation Moves Forward Requiring Community Oversight of Law Enforcement Surveillance Technology
Earlier this year, the city of Davis became a leader in the move to oversee law enforcement…
Activists Should Fear the Surveillance State
By Noa Yachot An invasive spying law is set to expire at the end of this year,…
FBI Increasing Surveillance of Black Activists?
By Thaddeus Talbot and Hugh Handeyside A recently leaked FBI “Intelligence Assessment” contains troubling signs that the…
Reining In President Trump’s Ability to Spy
By Ashley Gorski It’s been just over a month since Donald J. Trump assumed the enormous powers…
Trump Has the Keys to the Surveillance State, but CA Has a Long History of Changing the Locks
By Anna Porto When Donald Trump takes the oath of office later today, he will inherit an…
7 Reasons a Government Backdoor to the iPhone Would Be Catastrophic
By Noa Yachot You’ve likely caught wind of the fact that the government and Apple are in…
Sunday Commentary II: Why Drones Are Potentially a Threat to Privacy and Worse
In 2011 the ACLU in a report wrote, “Unmanned aircraft carrying cameras raise the prospect of a…
