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PC World October 16, 2002 Michelle Madigan |
ACLU Campaign Challenges Patriot Act Privacy unnecessarily threatened under broad surveillance powers, civil liberties group charges. |
PC World December 2003 Bill Wallace |
The Patriot Act Reconsidered Next round of antiterrorist legislation seeks to balance privacy and security. |
Reason December 2003 Jesse Walker |
Bob Barr, Civil Libertarian Representing the right wing of the ACLU, Barr represents a set of conservatives' growing discomfort with the Bush administration's erosion of individual liberty. |
Reason October 2004 John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
InternetNews December 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
FCC Wiretap Order Raises ACLU Ire The American Civil Liberties Union Thursday became the latest member of a growing group challenging the Federal Communications Commission's order that all Voice over IP providers must build a standardized wiretap backdoor into their systems. |
Reason December 2002 Sara Rimensnyder |
Free For All For 20 years, social critic Wendy Kaminer has eloquently and ardently defended civil liberties. Post 9/11, that hasn't changed a bit, judging by her new essay collection, Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today. |
PC World October 17, 2002 Michelle Madigan |
DOJ Describes Its Cybersurveillance (Sort Of) Congressional inquiry satisfied, but some want more details about how Patriot Act power is being used. |
Reason April 2004 Julian Sanchez |
PATRIOT Spawn When a draft of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, nicknamed PATRIOT II, was leaked last year, public outrage scuppered the proposal, but pieces are emerging elsewhere. |
PC World February 10, 2003 Kyle Stock |
Feds Look to Expand Electronic Surveillance Confidential proposal calls for increased monitoring of private e-mail messages, Web surfing, and other online activities. |
InternetNews September 30, 2004 Roy Mark |
DOJ to Appeal Patriot Act Ruling Judge says 'democracy abhors undue secrecy' as he strikes down provisions that allow the FBI to obtain names from ISPs without judicial authority. The DOJ isn't buying it. |
Reason November 2005 David Weigel |
When Patriots Dissent Government error and bad publicity resulting from use of the PATRIOT Act have reduced the number of Americans who are willing to trade privacy for security. Politicians who vote against measures like PATRIOT will go home to sympathetic voters. |
Reason June 2004 Julian Sanchez |
Soundbite: Probing Privacy An interview with the author of The Naked Crowd on the uncharted terrain that is privacy policy in America's digital age. |
Reason December 2001 |
Guarding the Home Front Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? A panel of experts discuss which civil liberties they think are most at risk in what has been called America's first 21st century war... |
Information Today September 2003 Dick Kaser |
Sound Off for the Freedom to Read It's a sad day when the U.S. Congress needs to consider a bill called the Freedom to Read Protection Act. Introduced last March, this bill would exempt libraries and bookstores from some of the more onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. |
Reason March 2007 David Weigel |
Bob Barr and the Libertarians A former Republican congressman joins a third party. |
National Defense November 2012 Valerie Insinna |
License Plate Reader Technology Sparks Lawsuit The American Civil Liberties Union sued two departments, including Homeland Security, 38 states and the District of Columbia in September over documents related to the federal government's use of automatic license plate readers. |
Information Today July 14, 2015 George H. Pike |
USA FREEDOM Act: Protector of Civil Liberties or Window Dressing? For the first time since the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Congress has scaled back the scope of its provisions. |
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Damien Cave & Katharine Mieszkowski |
The end of liberty Law enforcement officials are taking advantage of the war on terrorism to get everything they ever wanted, some say... |
Reason February 2006 Julian Sanchez |
Blowing Off Steam The American Civil Liberties Union released its analysis of 44 autopsies and death reports on detainees who died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan -- almost half were classed as homicides. |
Reason November 2004 Julian Sanchez |
Selling PATRIOT The Department of Justice released "Report from the Field: The USA PATRIOT Act at Work," to help persuade its critics that the PATRIOT Act is both necessary to fight terrorism and unlikely to undermine American liberties. But a close reading of the report suggests the opposite is true. |
Searcher June 2003 Miriam Drake |
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet: Patriot II on the Way This article focuses on the government's data mining, information gathering, database building programs, and Radio Frequency Identification Chips. |
Reason June 2007 David Weigel |
Right All Along, Unfortunately At every turn, security hawks have argued their critics are overanxious, paranoid "Chicken Littles." At this point, the chickens are looking awfully prescient. It's the hawks who are in trouble, beset by scandals connected directly to the laws for which they begged. |
Reason November 2008 David Weigel |
Bob Barr Talks The best-known nominee in Libertarian Party history talks to reason about war, drugs, pornography, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ayn Rand. |
Information Today September 2005 Dick Kaser |
After the Sunset Once little liberties are phased out, do they ever get reinstated? |
Reason September 2004 Julian Sanchez |
Silent Suits The ACLU challenges secrecy...in secret. |
CIO October 1, 2003 Stephanie Overby |
Recalling Florida Remember Florida in 2000? The outdated voting machines and disputed election results? The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California does, and it has sued to block California's recall election slated for Oct. 7, until the state replaces its punched-card voting systems. |
Information Today December 26, 2005 George H. Pike |
Congress Extends USA PATRIOT Act by 1 Month The USA PATRIOT which had been set to expire on Dec. 31, 2005, will now expire on Feb. 3, 2006. |
Information Today November 5, 2009 |
ARL, ALA Issue Statement Supporting PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 The Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association have issued a statement saying they strongly support the USA PATRIOT Amendments Act of 2009 |
Salon.com September 14, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Send in the online spooks? In the aftermath of terrorism, civil libertarians are running for cover. But are they protesting too much? |
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Jacob Sullum |
Driving While Armed The ACLU defends gun rights. |
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Richard S. Dunham |
The Patriot Act: Business Balks Businesses are joining critics who seek to curb the Patriot Act's wide-ranging investigative powers. |
Reason October 2002 Nick Gillespie |
Freedom for Safety: An old trade -- and a useless one The USA PATRIOT Act is a synecdoche for the freedom-for-safety swap. In making the freedom-for-safety swap, we haven't just dishonored the dead of 9/11. We've helped something else die too. |
Salon.com January 16, 2001 Alicia Montgomery |
The case for John Ashcroft Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice says Ashcroft champions civil rights, rules by law and will make a great attorney general... |
Reason April 2002 Jeremy Lott |
Fake IDs Facial recognition technology is often billed as a tradeoff between privacy and security. A recent American Civil Liberties Union report suggests that it's closer to a no-win deal, resulting in less privacy and precious little added security... |
Reason March 2002 Sam MacDonald |
Gun Control's New Language How anti-terror rhetoric is being used against the Second Amendment... |
InternetNews September 25, 2009 |
DHS Privacy Report Downplays Laptop Searches The Department of Homeland Security brushes off criticism from civil liberties groups in 99-page report to Congress. |
Information Today August 2004 |
Letter to the Editor A Librarian's View on the USA PATRIOT Act |
Reason June 2002 Brian Dohery |
Watching the AG Maybe Attorney General John Ashcroft isn't the greatest threat to individual liberty since the Inquisition. But that doesn't mean he hasn't been alarming so far... |
Reason July 2005 |
Who Should Reign Supreme? Libertarian legal experts weigh in on who their favorites are--past, present, and future--on the nation's highest court. |