From densely populated urban centers to vast open areas of land, Nebraskans value their privacy.
Laws and government practices that violate your privacy rights can come from Congress, but they can also be violated and protected by state and local government.
In the legislature, the ACLU has worked to protect your privacy at the ballot box and to protect your privacy from your employer. In communities and schools around Nebraska, the ACLU has worked to protect tenants, parents and employees when government tries to cast its net too wide and without justification.
Americans 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.
What You Need To Know
- 1986The federal law protecting your electronic information passed in 1986, making it older than the World Wide Web.
- 50%Nearly half of all Nebraskans use a smartphone and even more use a phone with some ability to record your location.
- ZeroZero laws passed in Nebraska to protect your privacy in the digital age.