American Civil Liberties Union

Also written as: American Civil Liberties Union’s (ACLU) Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project · ACLU

Involved in

• The American Civil Liberties Union argued that buying bulk datasets such as smartphone location trails helps ICE sidestep warrant requirements and pull in vast amounts of data with no clear link to its enforcement mandate.

• The American Civil Liberties Union’s national “Get the Flock Out” campaign, launched this summer, walks residents through filing public records requests, drafting model ordinances, and attending city council meetings to push local governments to end Flock contracts.

• ACLU policy overview explains how lack of strict access controls enables government agencies to weaponize ALPR databases for political tracking and intimidation.

Statements attributed to it

• The American Civil Liberties Union’s national “Get the Flock Out” campaign, launched this summer, walks residents through filing public records requests, drafting model ordinances, and attending city council meetings to push local governments to end Flock contracts.

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Origin: first recognised while reading Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods · 2026-09-11 21:40