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| Sep 10, 2026 | Body camera video offers a rare look inside an immigration raid at a NY factory | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By VALERIE GONZALEZ and MARK VANCLEAVE
The sprawling snack-food factory in upstate New York appeared to be closed when a small army of immigration officers arrived after 9 a.m. Following a brief di... |
| Jan 6, 2026 | MDC Brooklyn, the notorious prison housing Maduro and his wife | NEW YORK: Deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are the latest high-profile inmates held in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), the largest federal pre-trial holding facility in the United States.... |
| Jul 10, 2025 | Freed from ICE detention, Mahmoud Khalil files $20 million claim against Trump administration | It comes as the deportation case against Khalil, a 30-year-old recent graduate student at Columbia University, continues to wind its way through the immigration court system.
The goal, Khalil said, is to send a message that he won’t be inti... |
| May 3, 2025 | May Day Protests: A Global Outcry Against Inequality and Oppression | May Day, a day traditionally dedicated to labor rights, erupted into a global chorus of dissent in 2025. From the streets of Los Angeles to the heart of Istanbul, voices rose against the oppressive weight of economic inequality and politica... |
| May 1, 2025 | May Day demonstrations in US and around the globe protest Trump agenda | Related Articles
Did Donald Trump — or ABC News — choose who would interview the president? Why does it matter?
Army plans for a potential parade on Trump’s birthday call for 6,600 soldiers, AP learns
Hegseth orders Army to cut costs by mer... |
| Apr 9, 2025 | NYC lets immigration officials open an office at Rikers jail, a priority for Trump | ICE used to have a presence on Rikers to facilitate the transfer of immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally into federal custody for deportation. But the city’s 2014 sanctuary law effectively banned ICE operations in its jails.
The order ... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | Yes, You Have The Right To Film ICE | Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already begun increasing enforcement operations, including highly publicized raids. As immigrant communities, families, allies, and activists think about what can be do... |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Long Island lawmakers to vote on whether to ban trans women athletes from competing in public facilities | A renewed fight over transgender rights is unfolding on Long Island, New York, as Nassau County lawmakers are set to vote on whether to ban transgender women athletes from competing in women's teams in county-owned facilities.
In February, ... |
| May 30, 2024 | Can Trump still vote after being convicted? | Former president and presumptive Republican nominee for president Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, but it's still likely he can vote — and vote for himself — in Florida this fall.
Trump, whose primary residence was in New York for mos... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | NYC's AI Gun Detection System Faces Criticism Over Effectiveness, Accuracy | Inno Flores, Tech Times 02 April 2024, 11:04 pm
The effectiveness of NYC's AI gun detection technology is in question. Evolv scanners were implemented at a Bronx hospital in 2022, but their significant false positive rate raises concerns.
N... |
| Dec 6, 2023 | New Point-and-Shoot Chemical Detectors Raise Privacy and Constitutional Issues | The TSA has begun testing a new handheld device that purports to be able to quickly identify the substance that someone is carrying just by pointing a laser at it. This kind of device raises serious privacy issues — including constitutional... |
| Aug 10, 2023 | Racism by Design: The Building of Interstate 81 | David Rufus was just a toddler when the bulldozers rolled into the streets of his Syracuse, New York, neighborhood in 1960. As part of the country’s interstate highways surge, city officials wanted to extend I-81 with an elevated viaduct th... |
| Aug 7, 2023 | ACLU Says NYC’s Half-Baked WiFi Kiosks Still A Privacy Mess | In 2014, NYC officials decided to replace the city’s dated pay phones with “information kiosks” providing free public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging, and a tablet for access to city services, maps and directions. The kiosks were to be ... |
| Jul 5, 2023 | NYC’s anti-bias law for hiring algorithms goes into effect | After months of delays, New York City today began enforcing a law that requires employers using algorithms to recruit, hire or promote employees to submit those algorithms for an independent audit — and make the results public. The first of... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Pride Has Always Been About Ending Mass Incarceration | We celebrate Pride this year in defiance of the almost 500 anti-LGBTQ bills pending or passed in state legislatures around the country. Unsurprisingly, these attacks are turning to the criminal legal system to enforce homophobia and transph... |
| Mar 31, 2023 | How the ACLU is Showing Up For Abortion Access Nationwide | Across the country, the ACLU, allied organizations, volunteers, and organizers are mobilizing together in the ongoing battle for our reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy — regardless of which state we call home. When anti-abortion extre... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | The Culture and Practices of Policing That Killed Tyre Nichols (and So Many Others) | American policing is violent, humiliating, and dehumanizing. It has led to thousands of avoidable deaths. Since the 2020 murder of George Floyd, police killings have only continued, at a rate of over 1,000 people per year. Black people are ... |
| Aug 20, 2022 | Online privacy may not still exist | Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Watch here.
Privacy is a fundamental human right, one that deserves to be protected and upheld in all forms.
However, in recent dec... |
| May 25, 2022 | Bernie Sanders, AOC, and 40 other Democrats ask Google to stop collecting location data so 'far-right extremists' can't use it to identify who has had an abortion | 42 Democrat lawmakers urged Google to stop unnecessarily collecting users' location data.
They said "far-right extremists" could use the data to go after those who've had abortions.
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Dozens of Democrat lawmakers are d... |
| May 10, 2022 | Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo back New York ban on controversial search warrants | A coalition of tech giants, including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, have pledged support for a New York bill that would ban the use of controversial search warrants that can identify people based on their location data and internet search ke... |
| Apr 15, 2022 | NYC Mayor Is Promoting 'Installing Gun Sensing Tech' After Brooklyn Subway Shooting | Urian B., Tech Times 15 April 2022, 03:04 pm
Mayor Eric Adams, the New York City mayor, is supporting surveillance tech that could potentially become the widest "gun surveillance" adoption system in the world after the Brooklyn su... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | A bill to ban geofence and keyword search warrants in New York gains traction | A New York bill that would ban state law enforcement from obtaining residents’ private user data from tech giants through the use of controversial search warrants will get another chance, two years after it was first introduced.
The Reverse... |
| Oct 7, 2021 | The Justice Department accidentally unsealed a rare 'keyword warrant' ordering Google to hand over data on anyone who searched a victim's name, report says | The US government accidentally unsealed court records that disclosed a rare "keyword warrant," Forbes reported.
Google was reportedly ordered to identify anyone who searched the name, phone number, or address of a sexual-assault v... |
| Feb 6, 2021 | Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters | Police in Minneapolis obtained a search warrant ordering Google to turn over sets of account data on vandals accused of sparking violence in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd last year, TechCrunch has learned.
The death of Floy... |
| Sep 8, 2020 | California Bill Would Mandate 'Crime Prediction' Algorithms Instead of Cash Bail | If California’s current effort to abolish cash bail succeeds, it would establish a system that keeps people in jail based on the recommendations of "crime prediction" algorithms—technology that experts criticize for enabling discr... |
| Jul 23, 2020 | New York legislature votes to halt facial recognition tech in schools for two years | The state of New York voted this week to pause for two years any implementation of facial recognition technology in schools. The moratorium, approved by the New York Assembly and Senate Wednesday, comes after an upstate school district adop... |
| Jul 7, 2020 | Unbridled Surveillance Will Not Save Us From COVID-19 | We all share the fervent desire to reopen society, to hug our friends and loved ones, to jump start the economy, and to return to the many activities that have been off limits since COVID-19 engulfed our communities. |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Facial Recognition: Threat Vs. Student Privacy? NY Schools May Be Sued | Staff Reporter, Tech Times 24 June 2020, 03:06 am
Facial recognition technology can take security to greater heights, and within the walls of academic institutions, this ensures lesser crimes and threats from beyond the school grounds. But ... |
| Mar 5, 2020 | ACLU Sues ICE Over Its Deliberately-Broken Immigrant 'Risk Assessment' Software | A couple of years ago, a Reuters investigation uncovered another revamp of immigration policies under President Trump. ICE has a Risk Classification Assessment Tool that decides whether or not arrested immigrants can be released on bail or ... |
| Feb 18, 2020 | NYPD Lied About National Security During An Attempt To Obtain A Journalist's Records From Twitter | This is a lie. There's no way around it. I'm sure the NYPD will come up with some excuse for this, but it will probably take a lawsuit to obtain the underlying documents, if not the NYPD's internal justifications. |
| Feb 18, 2020 | NYPD Lied About National Security During An Attempt To Obtain A Journalist's Records From Twitter | This is a lie. There’s no way around it. I’m sure the NYPD will come up with some excuse for this, but it will probably take a lawsuit to obtain the underlying documents, if not the NYPD’s internal justifications. |
| Oct 29, 2019 | Class Actions and Due Process Relief for Immigration Detainees After Jennings v. Rodriguez | A U.S. district court has limited the ability of immigration detainees to use an important procedural tool to challenge their detention. With the ruling, detainees are restricted in their ability to bring a Rule 23(b)(2) class action to ass... |
| Mar 1, 2018 | CryptoHarlem Is Teaching Digital Security to the Over-Surveilled Black Community | Every month for the past five years, Harlem residents have gathered to discuss digital privacy and how to best protect themselves from intrusive surveillance. Motherboard joined CryptoHarlem founder Matthew Mitchell at one of his cryptopart... |
| Apr 13, 2017 | How Kickstarter became a public benefit corporation | Plenty of companies claim to have a greater purpose than making money. In our local tech scene, we have at least one that’s legally codified it.
In 2015, Kickstarter became a public benefit corporation, or PBC, a legal designation that allo... |
| Mar 8, 2017 | Settling for More: The NYPD’s New Oversight Deal | On Monday, the New York Police Department agreed to a revised class action settlement that it hopes will put to rest litigation surrounding the Department’s surveillance of Muslims. The litigation arose after the NYPD’s surveillance practic... |
| Oct 7, 2016 | New York’s transit plans include facial recognition tech in bridges and tunnels | New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo held a press conference earlier this week aimed at building a bridge (and tunnel) to the mid-21st century. The governor’s ambitious and controversial plan highlighted a series of initiatives designed to ... |
| Oct 4, 2016 | DC is part of a coalition of cities trying to shed light on police surveillance technology | 2016 has been a rollercoaster year for privacy and surveillance technology.
Now the ACLU is launching Community Control Over Police Surveillance, a project to bring transparency and community control to how local law enforcement uses survei... |
| Aug 30, 2016 | Inspector General Finds NYPD's Surveillance Of Muslims Routinely Violated Consent Decree Guidelines | Following two lawsuits against the NYPD for its pervasive, rights-violating surveillance of the city’s Muslims, the department’s Inspector General took a look at a sampling of cases from 2010-2015 to see if the Handschu Agreement — crafted ... |
| May 21, 2016 | NYPD Sued After Refusing to Reveal Its Stingray Surveillance Budget | The New York Police Department is still refusing to release basic information about quasi-secret cellphone mass-surveillance devices colloquially known as Stingrays, according to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed Thursday by the Ne... |
| May 18, 2016 | Rochester Police Used A $200,000 Stingray To Track Gang Members | Stingrays, the quasi-secret cellphone surveillance devices used by police and federal agents, and often defended as crucial in the counterterrorism fight, keep on popping up in cases that have nothing to do with terrorism or serious crime.
... |
| Feb 16, 2016 | NYPD Has Deployed Stingrays Over 1,000 Times Without Warrants | The New York ACLU has obtained documents from the NYPD — a feat on par with prying paperwork away from the FBI, CIA or NSA — showing the department has been deploying Stingrays without a warrant since 2008. This puts them on the same timeli... |
| Jun 19, 2015 | The NYPD Can't Hire Black Officers Because It's Hassled Too Many Black Men | You can’t build a better police force if you can’t get anybody to apply for the job. Perhaps this partially explains the hesitance of law enforcement agencies to rid themselves of badly-behaving officers. Without a healthy pool of potential... |
| May 18, 2015 | FBI Says It Has No Idea Why Law Enforcement Agencies Are Following The Terms Of Its Stingray Non-Disclosure Agreements | The FBI doesn’t want to talk about its Stingray devices. It definitely doesn’t want local law enforcement agencies talking about them. It forces any agency seeking to acquire one to sign a very restrictive non-disclosure agreement that stip... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | Government Agencies Love Expanding E-ZPass Coverage; Handling Data Responsibly, Not So Much | Traffic management may be the goal, but watch out for the mission creep. New York’s E-ZPass system started out as an efficient way to keep traffic on toll roads running without interruption, but has expanded its coverage to areas where no t... |
| Apr 8, 2015 | New Documents Show FBI Instructing Law Enforcement To Throw Out Cases Rather Than Give Up Info On Stingray Use | Documents obtained by the New York ACLU (via a lawsuit, naturally) provide more details on the FBI’s efforts to cover up usage of Stingray devices. Back in February, an FBI memo obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune stated clearly that the... |
| Mar 18, 2015 | NY Court Orders Sheriff To Reveal Details On Stingray Mobile Phone Surveillance | For quite some time now, we’ve been covering how various law enforcement agencies have been using “Stingray” (or similar) cell tower spoofing devices to track the public. Beyond the questionable Constitutionality of such mass surveillance t... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | Grab Your Cameras, We Are Little Brother | Dystopian futures have always imagined governments oppressing us with surveillance. Under the all-seeing, all-hearing eyes and ears of Big Brother, free will is curtailed and only “approved” behavior is allowed. Edward Snowden revealed this... |
| Nov 20, 2014 | After Rising Dramatically, Marijuana Arrests Are Falling In New York City And Across The Country | In 1992, when Americans elected a president who said he had smoked pot without inhaling, the number of marijuana arrests in the United States began a steep climb. It peaked in 2007, during the administration of a president who refused to sa... |
| Aug 11, 2014 | Tech Companies, ACLU Voice Support For Facebook In Data Search Warrant Case | A group of tech giants and civil liberties groups voiced their support on Friday for Facebook as it continues its legal battle to return private data collected in a set of bulk search warrants to its users and prevent future searches.
Faceb... |
| Aug 10, 2014 | Civil Liberties Groups Support Facebook's Fight to Limit Government Access to User Data | When court records were unsealed in late June showing the Manhattan district attorney had been granted a search warrant to spy on nearly 400 Facebook accounts, it set off waves of discontent among electronic privacy advocates. As the number... |
| Apr 26, 2014 | Twitter Can Now Predict Crime, and This Raises Serious Questions | Police departments in New York City may soon be using geo-tagged tweets to predict crime. It sounds like a far-fetched sci-fi scenario a la Minority Report, but when I contacted Dr. Matthew Greber, the University of Virginia researcher behi... |
| Sep 8, 2013 | We Spoke to Innocent Men Who Were Stopped-and-Frisked | Image via Flickr user j-No.
In New York City, your skin color can get you stopped. Between January 2002 and June 2012, the New York Police Department conducted about 4.4 million stop-and-frisks, a practice which entails police officers appr... |
| Aug 28, 2013 | Mayor Bloomberg Vetoes Veto-Proof Stop And Frisk Bills Because He's Mayor Bloomberg | NY mayor Michael Bloomberg is on his way out, Police Chief Ray Kelly is on the defensive, and stop and frisk is on the ropes, having recently been declared unconstitutional. Kelly and Bloomberg were both very upset by the decision, with Blo... |
| Jun 11, 2013 | A.C.L.U. To Obama Administration: Lawyer Up Over PRISM | The next development in the sprawling PRISM scandal may see the Obama Administration in court. The American Civil Liberties Union, as a customer of Verizon, claims that the collection of massive amounts of data by the NSA has violated its F... |
| May 30, 2013 | Stop & Frisk Accomplishments: Barely Any Illegal Weapons Recovered, But Tons Of Weed Smokers Jailed | We’ve already discussed the abomination NYC Mayor Bloomberg has unleashed on his own people in the form of random searches of scary dark-skinned people, more commonly known as stop and frisk. The justification of a blatantly racist policy t... |
| May 15, 2013 | Who Protects New Yorkers from the NYPD? | Nicholas Heyward is a haunted man. He is one of many New Yorkers who have lost loved ones to the police. Nineteen years ago, Heyward's son was playing with a toy gun in the stairwell of a Boerum Hill housing project in Brooklyn, New York, w... |
| May 11, 2013 | Boston & Local Police Intelligence: an FBI Statement and a Response from Faiza Patel | Earlier today I posted a commentary on "Boston Bombings: Local Police and Counterterrorism Intelligence," based on reported claims that the FBI failed to pass on important threat information to the Boston Police Department, and fu... |
| Apr 29, 2013 | Former Police Chief Defends NYPD's 'Stop And Frisk' Program, Because It Has A Checklist | NYPD’s “stop-and-frisk” program has never really been considered “constitutional” by anyone involved on either side of the law. In fact, certain elements of the stop-and-frisk program have already been ruled unconstitutional (making trespas... |
| Oct 15, 2012 | Teen’s iPod Exposes Violence And Racial Profiling In NYPD’s Stop & Frisk Interrogations. Watch The Video | “What am I getting arrested for?” said Alvin, a 17-year old New Yorker. “For being a fucking mutt”, the NYPD officer can be clearly heard saying on the recording from Alvin’s iPod, the only known audio from the 1,800″Stop & Frisk” inter... |
| Bernie Sanders, AOC, and 40 other Democrats ask Google to stop collecting location data so 'far-right extremists' can't use it to identify who has had an abortion | 42 Democrat lawmakers wrote to Google's CEO Sundar Pichai to urge Google to stop collecting and retaining users' location data unnecessarily. They're worried that "far-right extremists" could use the data to go after those who've ... |
