News & Commentary

Big Tech is copying the tobacco industry's 3-step playbook designed to suffocate democratic resistance and consolidate power.

For the third time in five years, California rejected a bill that would have greenlit government use of facial recognition across the state.

Automatic license plate readers collect and store highly sensitive information that can reveal where we work, live, worship, or seek reproductive health services. Sharing any ALPR information with out-of-state or federal law enforcement agencies has been forbidden in California since 2016.

Companies and legislators are using misleading test scores to justify the expansion of facial recognition into our communities. That flawed approach understates the threat this dangerous technology poses to civil rights.

Over the last year, the ACLU of Northern California conducted a high-level analysis of the types of places captured by law enforcement in geofence warrants across San Francisco. The study revealed a troubling violation of our right to be secure in our homes and to be free from unreasonable search without probable cause.

Our right to speak anonymously, long protected by U.S. courts, is increasingly under attack by corporations and wealthy individuals looking to upend decades of free speech precedent.

We are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether Meta and X have broken their anti-surveillance commitments