Learn How To Protect Your Privacy Online! When you learn, share, shop, and connect online, a lot happens behind the scenes that companies and the government don't want you to know. The sites that you visit can collect detailed information about you -- your interests, politics, relationships, and more. This information can be shared, sold, or handed over to the government -- without a warrant. Look behind the curtain to see what's really happening to your personal info. See what you can do right now to take back control and keep details about your private life from being used and abused.

Student Rights Handbook -- Know Your Rights! "Can they do that?" It's a question we get asked all the time from students in Vermont public schools. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the 1969 Tinker vs. Des Moines case that students "don't shed their constitutional rights" at the schoolhouse gate. Our Student Rights Handbook touches on everything from dress codes to censorship, searches to discipline. Learn about your rights at school -- and exercise them.

Who Will Hold Government Responsible When There Are No More Newspapers?

Newspapers’ disappearance, largely unimaginable five years ago, has become real as papers large and small have been threatened by online competition and hit by the economic recession. The press is government’s watchdog. It helps citizens exercise their right “to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The existence of a free press is taken for granted. But if the press as we know it disappears, will democracy be the same? That's the question award-winning journalist and former Newsday editor Anthony Marro addressed at the ACLU-VT annual meeting. You can watch his talk below.

Other recent ACLU videos (on You Tube):

• Highlights Of The ACLU's Work In 2009 Around The Country
• Justice Denied: Voices From Guantanamo
• Liberate The Breast Cancer Gene
• School Strip-Search Case Before Supreme Court
• Close Gitmo And End Military Commissions
• 100 Miles From The Border
• Accountable For Torture
• Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity

(Please note that by playing these clips, You Tube will place a long-term cookie on your computer. Please see You Tube’s privacy statement on their web site to learn more. To view the National ACLU’s privacy statement, click here.) You can also go directly to You Tube to view the videos there.