News & Commentary

Free speech is interpreted broadly to include video productions, including pornography.

SB 17, a bill aimed at limiting minors’ access to content online, would ultimately violate the constitutional rights of adult Hoosiers.

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project; and Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Senior Staff Technologist, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project

When it comes to reproductive rights, your digital trail matters more than you think.

Governments and police forces should not be able to use surveillance technologies for any purpose without informing and securing the permission of the people they serve.

This flawed technology threatens core constitutional rights, and endangers people of color and other marginalized groups.

Investing in communities that have been historically under-resourced and over-criminalized is a long overdue and critical piece to achieving public safety.

Technological innovation often outpaces our ability to protect individual privacy. That is definitely true in the current moment. Our digital footprints can be tracked by the government and corporations in ways that were once unthinkable. 

First Wednesdays in Bloomington, Dec. 2, 2015: "The Not-So-Private Lives of Hoosiers: How Technology is Threatening our Privacy." Panel included (L-R) Indiana University Professors Christine Von Der Haar, Fred Cate, Scott Shackelford and Kelly Eskew (not pictured). Photo by Katelyn Rowe, The Indiana Daily Student.