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Monopoly Control of Broadband Internet Threatens Free Speech (03/29/2005)

Secure Flight Airline Passenger Pre-Screening System (03/24/2005)

Feature on MATRIX (03/08/2005)
Feature on MATRIX (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange), the latest data-mining program to emerge from the government.

TSA Pat-down search abuse (12/21/2004)
TSA Pat-down search abuse

Naked Data: How The U.S. Ignored International Concerns and Pushed for Radio Chips In Passports Without Security (11/26/2004)
Documents obtained recently by the ACLU show that the United States government ignored warnings about privacy and security while successfully pushing for an international standard for new electronic passports that will leave citizens vulnerable to identity theft, invasions of privacy, or worse.

International Campaign to Stop Global Registration and Surveillance (11/04/2004)
International Campaign to Stop Global Registration and Surveillance - draft mockup page

ACLU and Privacy International Secure Flight Comments (Docket No. TSA-2004-19160) (10/25/2004)

April 5th, 2004, DOJ OLC Opinion Condoning Controversial FBI Surveillance Tactics (08/16/2004)
The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel issued this previously undisclosed memorandum in support of the FBI's controversial surveillance of peaceful protesters. The memo was issued in response to an internal complaint by a government employee.

Who Will Take the No-Spy Pledge? (08/09/2004)
Surveillance-industrial complex action page. Who will take the no-spy pledge?

ACLU Letter to Tom Ridge on CAPPS II (07/20/2004)

MATRIX Project Brochure (06/15/2004)