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One ACLU client spent six months in jail, because police relied on facial recognition technology to incorrectly identify her as a suspect. She’s the fourteenth person known to be wrongfully arrested due to the technology’s failures.

As the ACLU fights to protect people’s privacy, playwright Matthew Libby discusses his play about the private companies fueling the government’s surveillance of immigrants.

ACLU white paper warns the technology may serve everyone but ordinary people

Such readings shouldn’t generally be retained at all, but if they are at least privacy needs to be protected.

CEO attacks motives of people who care about privacy, says they are trying to “normalize lawlessness” and “let murderers go free”

ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition.

While searching for a new apartment in Atlanta recently, I was alarmed and stressed out by some of the information I was asked to provide. Most frightening was having to let these companies use scans of my face when I had no idea what they were going to do with the information.

ACLU of Georgia Policy Counsel Ben Lynde was quoted in a revealing investigative report published this weekend by The Intercept that shows the Georgia Army National Guard plans to combine two deeply controversial practices to persuade teens to enlist.