Bio
Vera Eidelman is a staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on the rights to free speech and privacy in the digital age. She focuses on the free speech rights of protesters and young people, online speech, and genetic privacy. She has litigated cases including Dakota Rural Action v. Noem, a constitutional challenge to “riot boosting” laws that chilled protest, In re Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury, in defense of the right to write, publish, and distribute books others sought to ban as “obscene,” and ACLU v. Clearview AI, a state privacy law challenge to nonconsensual faceprinting. She has also represented a racial justice protester, in Mckesson v. Doe, and a high school cheerleader, in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., before the Supreme Court.
Vera was previously a William J. Brennan fellow with the ACLU, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before joining the ACLU, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Featured work
Apr 22, 2024
The Supreme Court Declined a Protestors' Rights Case. Here's What You Need to Know.
![A group of protesters.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/04/protest-rights-blog-400x400.jpg)
Mar 11, 2024
How to Protect Consumer Privacy and Free Speech
![A gavel on a laptop.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/03/gavel-data-privacy-blog-400x400.jpg)
Oct 19, 2023
The Supreme Court Will Set an Important Precedent for Free Speech Online
![A finger pressign a keyboard.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/10/online-freedom-blog-400x400.jpg)
Aug 1, 2023
Arkansas Wants to Unconstitutionally “Card” People Before They Use Social Media
![A group using a computer and smartphone.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/08/social-media-age-restriction-blog-400x400.jpg)
Jun 13, 2023
Donated Blood or an Organ? Police Shouldn’t Have Easy Access to Your DNA
![A group of blood test tubes.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/06/donate-blood-blog-400x400.jpg)
Jun 29, 2022
It’s 2022 and Two Books Are on Trial for ‘Obscenity’
![A bookshelf full of books.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/06/Virginia_Blog-400x400.jpg)
Jun 15, 2021
The Problem With Censoring Political Speech Online – Including Trump’s
![Man holding iPhone with social media icons displayed on the screen](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/06/Social-Media-Ban-Header-400x400.jpg)
May 17, 2021
Time and Again, Social Media Giants Get Content Moderation Wrong: Silencing Speech about Al-Aqsa Mosque is Just the Latest Example
![Social media icons including Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube on a phone screen.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/05/FB-Banning-Header-Image-400x400.jpg)
May 6, 2021
The Oversight Board’s Trump Decision Highlights Problems with Facebook’s Practices
![Donald Trump's Facebook profile on a web browser.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/05/WEB21-Trump-Facebook-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x400.jpg)
Mar 24, 2021
Punished for a Snapchat: Why Schools Shouldn’t Police Students’ Speech Outside of School
![Snapchat stories on a smart phone.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/03/WEB21-Snapchat-Stories-Standard-1110x740-1-400x400.jpg)