Two decades after DHS’s founding, it’s clear that the department’s counterterrorism policies and practices have too often been ineffective and discriminatory. It is time for reform.

Less than a third of unauthorized migrants were prosecuted in May. The Trump administration made sure many were parents.

Personal information gleaned from social media posts has been used to target dissent and subject religious and ethnic minorities to enhanced vetting and surveillance.

This spring, a team working under the president’s son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did...

Speaker Mike Johnson inserted a four-month extension of a warrantless spying program into the annual defense policy bill.

Dragnet social media monitoring brings significant risks, and even targeted monitoring can be abused.

"Are we comfortable with the idea of calling and location data being trawled through for the purpose of hunting down people who might not really be guilty of anything more serious than wanting to...

It’s not enough to simply present truthful information to the public. We need it to sink in.

The following Brennan Center and coalition resources provide detailed information on Section 702, how it has been used to gain warrantless access to Americans’ communications, proposals for reforming...

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, a Virginia-based firm, gathered information on more than 600 family separation demonstrations across the country.

This paper surveys the landscape of government acquisition of location data about cell phone users, how that location information is accrued and disseminated, and the technologies that can establish...

The U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement arm began monitoring social media posts following the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, according to congressional aides and lawmakers.

The Brennan Center, in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has filed an amicus brief urging the Virginia Supreme Court to consider the civil liberties implications of collecting and...

The debate over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s use of the term “concentration camp” is not about language or facts. It is about how we perceive history, ourselves, and ourselves in history.

The new commentary, news, and resource hub covers state constitutional developments nationwide.

Virginia has no laws specific to license plate readers, but a county judge and the state supreme court say keeping the data violates state privacy law.

Our FOIA lawsuit is essential to ensure accountability and safeguard against discriminatory and invasive online monitoring by the Department of Homeland Security.

A one-page document compiled by the Brennan Center on government abuses of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, a foreign intelligence surveillance authority that the government...

More than 100 organizations and academics have come together to oppose a government push for automated software to do "extreme vetting" on immigrants.

An email alert flagged the meeting as a “Planned Protest” that could potentially warrant a police response.

The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday asking most applicants for U.S. visas to provide information on their use of social media, a U.S. Department of State official tells Hill…

An internal police chief memo shows employees were directed to use ‘field interview cards’ which would then be reviewed

"Disclosure of even minor details about them may cause jeopardy," bureau says.

The Internal Revenue Service attempted to identify and track potential criminal suspects by purchasing access to a commercial database that records the locations of millions of American cellphones.

The report examines law enforcement’s inadequate response to officers’ explicit racist behavior and proposes a strategy to protect communities of color.

The Brennan Center and 41 other organization submitted comments to the Department of Homeland Security strongly opposing its plan to collect social media identifiers from people traveling to the US...

The current administration has shown that people have good cause to be worried.