Bio
Vera Eidelman is a staff attorney with the ACLU鈥檚 Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where she works on the rights to free speech and privacy in the digital age. She focuses on the free speech rights of protesters and young people, online speech, and genetic privacy. She has litigated cases including Dakota Rural Action v. Noem, a constitutional challenge to 鈥渞iot boosting鈥 laws that chilled protest, In re Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury, in defense of the right to write, publish, and distribute books others sought to ban as 鈥渙bscene,鈥 and 桃子视频v. Clearview AI, a state privacy law challenge to nonconsensual faceprinting. She has also represented a racial justice protester, in Mckesson v. Doe, and a high school cheerleader, in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., before the Supreme Court.
Vera was previously a William J. Brennan fellow with the ACLU, and is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. Before joining the ACLU, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Beth Labson Freeman of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Featured work
Apr 22, 2024
The Supreme Court Declined a Protestors' Rights Case. Here's What You Need to Know.
Mar 11, 2024
How to Protect Consumer Privacy and Free Speech
Oct 19, 2023
The Supreme Court Will Set an Important Precedent for Free Speech Online
Aug 1, 2023
Arkansas Wants to Unconstitutionally 鈥淐ard鈥 People Before They Use Social Media
Jun 13, 2023
Donated Blood or an Organ? Police Shouldn鈥檛 Have Easy Access to Your DNA
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It鈥檚 2022 and Two Books Are on Trial for 鈥極bscenity鈥
Jun 15, 2021
The Problem With Censoring Political Speech Online 鈥 Including Trump鈥檚
May 17, 2021
Time and Again, Social Media Giants Get Content Moderation Wrong: Silencing Speech about Al-Aqsa Mosque is Just the Latest Example
May 6, 2021
The Oversight Board鈥檚 Trump Decision Highlights Problems with Facebook鈥檚 Practices
Mar 24, 2021
Punished for a Snapchat: Why Schools Shouldn鈥檛 Police Students鈥 Speech Outside of School