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Already king of the U.S. search engine hill, Google branched out into browser software with the recent release of Chrome. Unfortunately, Chrome's improvements, while alluring, come at a considerable cost in private information. Two data collection mechanisms, "Google Suggest" and usage statistics gathering, will collect massive amounts of data whenever we use the browser.Chrome does provide some o... Read More

In case you missed it on our National ACLU blog, here is an entry written by the ACLU's Amanda Simon about a report sponsored by DHS concluding that data mining is entirely ineffective in preventing terrorism:Yesterday, a report on data mining was released by the Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals (a.k.a.: CTPDITPONG). The... Read More

This morning, the San Francisco Superior Court dismissed a lawsuit challenging San Francisco's Municipal ID Ordinance, which establishes a program to ensure that members of the San Francisco community are not denied access to police protection and other essential City services because they lack government-issued identification. Read More

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Congress and the Bush White House overstepped their constitutional authority and violated the rights of millions of customers when they passed and approved legislation granting sweeping immunity to telecoms that collaborated in illegal spying.That assertion is contained in a court filing today by three California affiliates and the Illinois affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union and the E... Read More

Congress and the Bush White House overstepped their constitutional authority and violated the rights of millions of customers when they passed and approved legislation granting sweeping immunity to telecoms that collaborated in illegal spying. That assertion is contained in a court filing today by three California affiliates and the Illinois affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union and the ... Read More

San Francisco – Congress and the Bush White House overstepped their constitutional authority and violated the rights of millions of customers when they passed and approved legislation granting sweeping immunity to telecoms that collaborated in illegal spying. That assertion is contained in a court filing today by three California affiliates and the Illinois affiliate of the American Civil Li... Read More

On September 14, 2009 ACLU Foundation of Northern California and civil rights allies filed a motion to intervene in Associated General Contractors of America v. California Department of Transportation.  The lawsuit, currently pending in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, was brought by the Pacific Legal Foundation and seeks to dismantle Caltrans' Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) p... Read More

A broad coalition of public interest groups released two letters today calling on television networks and YouTube to protect online political speech in the final days of this election.These letters follow-up on an ACLU of Northern California and EFF blog post in August highlighting the importance of the Internet as a forum for political speech and calling on service providers and content owners to... Read More

Television networks should stop silencing political speech on the Internet, according to a letter the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California and a coalition of public interest groups sent to four major television networks today. Several broadcasting companies have sent letters to YouTube demanding that they take down videos containing short clips of news coverage even when... Read More