Bio
Hugh Handeyside is a senior staff attorney in the ACLU's National Security Project, where he works on issues related to government watchlisting, racial and religious discrimination, due process, and border-related practices.
Featured Work
The FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm nor Deny’ That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts
In recent years, the federal government has significantly ramped up its efforts to monitor people on social media. The FBI, for one, has repeatedly acknowledged that it engages in surveillance of social media posts. So it was surprising when the bureau responded to our Freedom of Information Act request on this kind of surveillance by saying that it “can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records.”