Weekly Highlights June 23 - 27

This week at the ACLU of Maine: The state legislature wraps up its session, SCOTUS hands down major decisions, Maine upholds its strongest-in-the-nation internet privacy laws, and more. 

Weekly highlights

Weekly Highlights May 5 - 9

This week at the ACLU of Maine: A public hearing at the State House about trans student athlete bans, preparing for an upcoming hearing on data privacy bills, and reflecting on the first 100 days of the Trump presidency.

Weekly highlights

Weekly Highlights: March 24 - 28

This week at the ACLU of Maine: Fight for abortion access at the Maine State House, a new class action complaint against Trump's mass federal firings, 23andMe privacy concerns, and more. 

Weekly Highlights March 24-28

Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated.

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t simple.

Security Check at the Airport

Machine Surveillance is Being Super-Charged by Large AI Models

Limits and guardrails are vital to protect our privacy and liberty — as well as our sanity — against omnipresent AI surveillance.

Scanning the crowd of people walking at the railway station. Surveillance interface using artificial intelligence and facial recognition.

Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond

You shouldn't participate in face recognition ticketing schemes.

Madison Square Garden, NY Rangers facade.

DHS Focus on "Soft Targets" Risks Out-of-Control Surveillance

AI surveillance of public places risks subjecting everyday spaces to airport-level security that heightens the risk of discrimination.

Pedestrians walking through Times Square.

How Trump's Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms

A second Trump administration threatens to use executive authority to further limit First Amendment freedoms, surveil Americans and undermine democracy.

A graphic featuring Trump and imagery pertaining to surveillance and first amendment rights.

My Family Business Depends on Digital Ads. And I Support Legislation to Protect Mainers' Privacy from Big Tech.

Our family business has thrived by building trusting relationships with customers, not because we exploit their most personal information to get ahead.

Stop big tech from spying on Maine. Support LD 1977.