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Update - What's Wrong With Fusion Centers? (07/29/2008)

ACLU letter to President of the EU's Article 29 Working Group (French) (04/16/2008)
Letter from the ACLU to the President of the European Union's Article 29 working group urging investigation of NSA spying.

ACLU letter to President of the EU's Article 29 Working Group (English) (04/16/2008)
Letter from the ACLU to the President of the European Union's Article 29 Working Group urging investigation of NSA spying.

Pandemic Preparedness: The Need for a Public Health — Not a Law Enforcement/National Security — Approach (01/14/2008)

Report - What's Wrong With Fusion Centers? (12/12/2007)

What's Wrong With Fusion Centers - Executive Summary (12/05/2007)
A new institution is emerging in American life: Fusion Centers. Originally created to improve the sharing of anti-terrorism intelligence among different agencies, the scope of their mission has quickly expanded to cover "all crimes and all hazards." The types of information they seek for analysis has also broadened over time to include not just criminal intelligence, but public and private sector data.

Even Bigger, Even Weaker: The Emerging Surveillance Society: Where Are We Now? (09/17/2007)
An Update to the ACLU Report, Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains

Testimony of Barry Steinhardt before the House Committee on Homeland Security (09/06/2007)
Statement of Barry Steinhardt, on the privacy and civil liberties implications of domestic spy satellites before the House Committee on Homeland Security.

AT&T Shareholder Resolution on NSA Spying (01/17/2007)

ACLU Backgrounder on ATS (01/10/2007)