Privacy and Technology
Technological innovation has outpaced our privacy protections. As a result, our digital footprint can be tracked by the government and corporations in ways that were once unthinkable.
Technological innovation has outpaced our privacy protections. As a result, our digital footprint can be tracked by the government and corporations in ways that were once unthinkable.
This digital footprint is constantly growing, containing more and more data about the most intimate aspects of our lives. This includes our communications, whereabouts, online searches, purchases, and even our bodies. When the government has easy access to this information, we lose more than just privacy and control over our information. Free speech, security, and equality suffer as well.
The ACLU of North Dakota along with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project fights in the courts, lobbies in the Capitol, and works with technology companies to ensure that civil liberties are protected as technology advances. We are working to secure a warrant requirement for law enforcement access to electronic information, to chip away at the government’s excessive secrecy surrounding its surveillance practices, to promote the proliferation of privacy-protective technologies, and more.
North Dakotans should not have to choose between using new technologies and protecting their civil liberties. We work to ensure a future in which the Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable searches extends to digital property and your data is your own.
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We need to pump the brakes on the use of Flock’s mass surveillance license plate readers
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Surveillance Boosters Tout the Benefits of Deterrence, But There’s a Big Problem With That
As AI Gains Power, We Must Push for Guardrails to Protect Civil Liberties
As AI increasingly makes decisions in hiring, policing, and social services, the ACLU’s Civil Rights in the Digital Age Summit focuses on promoting responsible AI design to ensure technology protects rights and serves justice for all.
Cases, Campaigns & Legislation
Aug 2026
Get the Flock Out
ALPR companies like Flock Safety are quietly creating a nationwide mass surveillance system. These cameras are in North Dakota, tracking, logging, and sharing our movements without a warrant.
But North Dakotans are increasingly speaking up against these creepy cameras — and your community could be the next to choose privacy over mass surveillance.
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