WASHINGTON - October 24 - The American Civil Liberties Union calls on the Inspectors General of the Intelligence Agencies to respect the rule of law and make legally required domestic surveillance reports to Congress completely and publically available.

The following can be attributed to Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington Legislative Office of the ACLU: 

NEW YORK - October 15 - The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Justice Department should disclose any policies and procedures pertaining to how the NSA protects Americans' privacy rights when it collects, stores and disseminates private U.S. communications, according to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union. The NSA has not released a public version of its procedures for protecting the privacy of U.S. communications since 1993.

WASHINGTON - October 8 -  Following the release of a damning Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-funded report yesterday, the American Civil Liberties Union demanded an end to the government's use of data mining. The report, "Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists," was conducted by a group of privacy and technical experts called the Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and Other National Goals.

WASHINGTON - September 30 - The American Civil Liberties Union and London-based Privacy International today wrote to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to express their concern over a process to draft technical standards that would allow Internet communications to be traced to their origin.