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FBI Partially Lifts Gag Order on NSL Recipient

08/10/2010 – The FBI has partially lifted a gag it imposed on ACLU client Nicholas Merrill in 2004 that prevented him from disclosing to anyone that he received a national security letter (NSL) ...

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Are Outdated Laws Putting Your Digital Privacy at Risk?

08/10/2010 – With each passing day, we're leaving a trail of more and more personal data. Take cell phones, for example—90% of Americans carry one, each of which can be used as a tracking ...

California Marriage Ban Struck Down

08/04/2010 – In a landmark decision today, a federal judge ruled that Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that excluded same-sex couples from marriage in the state, violates the United ...

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Court Blocks Key Sections of Arizona Racial Profiling Law

07/28/2010 – Ensuring that Arizona law enforcement will not be required to demand "papers" from people they stop who they suspect are "unlawfully present" in the U.S., a federal ...

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Obama Administration In Danger Of Establishing "New Normal" With Worst Bush-Era Policies, Says ACLU

07/29/2010 – The Obama administration has repudiated some of the Bush administration's most egregious national security policies but is in danger of institutionalizing others permanently into law, ...

The ACLU Celebrates 90 Years of Protecting Liberty

Ninety years ago, America was reeling from a post-World War I fear that the Communist Revolution that had taken place in Russia would spread to the United States. As is often the case ...