We’ve come to expect that when we’re online, someone is always watching. We know companies track our every click, search, and video view, and many of us have become resigned to the idea that privacy doesn’t exist online.
December 20, 2021 Digital Discrimination Biometric Privacy Liberty and TechnologyLimitations on involuntary government detention lie at the core of our constitutional scheme, with the U.S. Supreme Court long having recognized that the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments impose fundamental substantive and procedural protections against unjustified detention
December 1, 2021 Immigrants' Rights Detention and Due ProcessNext week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit will hear argument in two expedited cases challenging vaccine mandates, one imposed by New York state on health care workers and one by New York City on teachers.
October 6, 2021The tragic impacts of the September 11 attacks stretch far beyond the nearly three thousand people who lost their lives that day 20 years ago. Over the last two decades, government forces have trampled on civil rights and liberties in the name of 9/11.
September 10, 2021 Liberty and Technology Racial JusticeThe right to make decisions about your own body and health care is rooted in core principles of personal liberty and autonomy. Especially during the COVID pandemic, New Yorkers have had to talk more about death and dying.
June 2, 2021As more New Yorkers get vaccinated, businesses and governments are beginning to roll out vaccine passports, which require people to show proof of immunization to gain entry to concerts or sports events, eat at restaurants, or board airplanes.
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