Press Releases
about Privacy & Technology
Dec 17, 2024
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Applauds Arizona Supreme Court Historic Decision That Police Need a Warrant to Access DNA
PHOENIX — In a 7-0 decision, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that a warrant is required to extract and analyze people’s DNA, saying that a person’s limited consent to a searc...
Issue Areas:
Privacy & Technology
Court case: State v. Mitcham
Oct 24, 2024
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Warns that Biden-Harris Administration Rules on AI in National Security Lack Key Protections
WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration today released its National Security Memorandum on Artificial Intelligence (AI), establishing guidelines for how the U.S. government ...
Sep 23, 2024
Child Safety, Free Speech, and Privacy Experts Tell Supreme Court: Texas’s Unconstitutional Age Verification Law Must be Overturned
In Friend-of-the-Court Briefs, Orgs Explain that Age-gating the Internet Will Not Keep Kids or Adults Safe
Court case: Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton
Aug 28, 2024
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Releases Roadmap to Rein in Government Surveillance Under a Harris Administration
The roadmap continues the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’s 2024 election policy memo series exploring likely policies from a potential Trump or Harris administration.
Issue Areas:
National Security
Privacy & Technology
Aug 16, 2024
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Cheers Ninth Circuit Decision to Block Content-Based Provisions of California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today blocked several provisions of the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (CAADCA) that impermissibly and unconstituti...
Issue Areas:
Privacy & Technology
Free Speech
Court case: Netchoice, LLC v. Bonta
Jul 30, 2024
ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û Slams Senate Passage of Kids Online Safety Act, Urges House to Protect Free Speech
WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate today passed the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which would violate the First Amendment by enabling the federal government to dictate what information...
Issue Areas:
Free Speech
Privacy & Technology
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