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Current government secrecy policy is a legacy of the Cold War now made obsolete by information technology, charges the American Civil Liberties Union in a July paper. In an era of open information Read more...

Customs and Border Protection conducted 2,272 searches of travelers' electronic devices from Oct. 1, 2009 through April 30, 2010, according to a newly released report from the Homeland Security Read more...

The constitutionality of suspicionless searches of electronic devices at border crossings came under fire Sept. 7 with a lawsuit seeking their enjoinment filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Read more...

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit June 3 in a New York federal district court to receive documents pertaining to the government's implementation of a 2008 law that allows electronic Read more...

Privacy groups and the ACLU oppose a proposal to make biometric Social Security cards mandatory for U.S. citizens. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wrote in a March 19 Read more...

The American Civil Liberties Union has been adamantly opposed the search and seizure of electronic devices by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), arguing that the policy has been intrusive, Read more...

An estimated 150,000 companies have signed on to use E-Verify as of Sept. 15, the mandatory program for federal contractors to verify the legal status of workers, according to an article Wednesday in Read more...

There's one thing you can say right away about DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano. It's clear that she is moving quickly and letting no issue squeak by her. In one of her latest policy announcements, Read more...