Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon shows just how easily AI surveillance can be turned against the people in this country, fueled by the government's purchases of our private data. U.S. privacy law is decades behind the technology. Congress must step in. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Congress must prevent AI surveillance. The Anthropic feud proves it | Ashley Gorski and Patrick Toomey

The company’s clash with the Pentagon is a fight over the future of American privacy

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The First Amendment protects our rights to protest and record federal agents performing their duties in public view. Revoking someone’s Global Entry status in retaliation for that activity is unconstitutional. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents

Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

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Our client has devoted his life to defending human rights, but the Trump administration's sanctions against the ICC prevent him and other advocates from pursuing justice. We're suing to defend defend their First Amendment right to advise and assist the ICC.

Opinion | Trump Is Helping Human Rights Abusers. I’m Suing to Stop Him.

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BREAKING: A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act immediately after we filed our lawsuit. President Trump is not above the law.

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court. This is an attack on accountability and free speech, exposing people in the U.S. to punishments for helping ICC investigations on atrocities committed anywhere, including genocide and war crimes.

Last night, for the first time, a federal court held that the FBI's warrantless queries of Section 702 databases violated the Fourth Amendment. Enormous win for privacy rights. The opinion is here: www.aclu.org/documents/se... (1/5)

Terrible day for the First Amendment and the rights of 170 million Americans who use TikTok. The government should not be allowed to ban an entire platform based on speculative harms and vague invocations of "national security." The First Amendment demands more here.

Allowing the government to ban a social media platform based on nothing more than hypothetical harms would be a grave mistake. We urge the court to uphold our First Amendment rights and and block this ban.

Supreme Court signals it will uphold ban on TikTok over national security concerns and other takeaways from oral arguments | CNN Politics

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold a controversial ban on TikTok over concerns about its ties to China, with justices lobbing pointed questions at lawyers for the social media a...

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The ACLU and several NGOs just filed an amicus brief in support of TikTok and its users, urging the Supreme Court to block the ban on First Amendment grounds.

Today, we filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to block the TikTok ban. If the law is allowed to go into effect, it would force 170 million American users off the platform starting January 19, 2025. We hope the Court intervenes to protect our First Amendment rights.

The D.C. Circuit's decision today to uphold the TikTok ban is enormously disappointing. If allowed to stand, it would give the government far too much power to restrict Americans' speech online.