American Civil Liberties Union
69 Stories
Filtering firm, hackers settle copyright case
News
ACLU ads warn Of "massive" government cyber-snooping
News Ratcheting up its attack on government cyber-surveillance efforts, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is launching a print and Internet advertising campaign that warns of "massive" government monitoring efforts.
ACLU stands behind John Does online
News The American Civil Liberties Union renews its pledge to protect anonymous online speakers from legal action taken by those they criticize.
Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal
News Opponents of Google Books settlement say the search giant will still have exclusive rights to digitize orphaned out-of-print works.
Tags: Regulations, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., U.S., revenue, U.S. Department Of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Settlement, antitrust, blog
ACLU chapter flags Facebook app privacy
News Chapter aims to raise awareness of fact that not only can third-party apps on Facebook's platform access your data, they can see some of your friends', too.
Tags: Web 2.0, Security, Privacy, User Data, American Civil Liberties Union, sexual orientation, Northern California, photograph, e-mail, Facebook
Legal advocates push for Google Books privacy
News American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation and UC Berkeley Law Clinic ask Google to protect reader privacy with its Book Search project.
Tags: Digital media, Google Inc., Privacy, American Civil Liberties Union, Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., e-mail, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eric Schmidt, U.S.
Facebook ratchets up privacy controls, again
News This time the social network is responding to advocacy groups' and policymakers' concerns about the amount of user data exposed to third-party developers.
Tags: Web 2.0, Authentication and encryption, User Data, American Civil Liberties Union, Developer, API, product marketing, Facebook, blog, vice president
Google Books opposition pours in at deadline
News Tuesday is the last day to file statements on Google's Book Search settlement and several groups have gone on record opposing the deal.
Tags: Data Management, Web 2.0, Databases, Web sites, American Civil Liberties Union, Settlement, antitrust, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Judge
US cybersecurity review scrutinizing telecom policy
News Senior government officials say U.S. President Barack Obama's cybersecurity review will be the springboard for future plans.
Tags: Data security, Network security, Privacy, Government, Cybersecurity, Telecommunications, American Civil Liberties Union, Internal Revenue Service, Hathaway, Center for Democracy and Technology
US Homeland Security continues laptop seizures
News New guidelines are announced to clarify the U.S. border department's practice of seizing laptops and electronic gadgets indefinitely.
Tags: Consumer Technology, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, American Civil Liberties Union, electronic media, phone, agent, Laptop Computer, Homeland Security, Adobe PDF, disk
Court won't force library to filter Net content
News A California library cannot be sued under state law for failing to filter Internet content, a state appeals court has decided.
Judge sides with Net filtering firm in copyright case
News
ACLU wants SEC Web surveillance plan suspended
News
Lawsuit filed to block "Internet wiretaps"
News Civil liberties groups have asked a federal appeals court to block recently adopted rules that allow the U.S. government to monitor the Internet and other communications systems.
High school student wins parody case
News A teenager, who was suspended from high school for building a Web page mocking his assistant principal, wins US$10,000 in damages.
