Risher, lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California.

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Organisations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Sunlight Foundation and Avaaz.org have all voiced their concerns about the extent to which the government would be able to monitor private information.

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The plan drew immediate criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which said it would effectively gut court oversight of domestic intelligence-gathering.

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But a coalition of groups that fought the ban in California courts -- including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Human Rights Campaign and the Lambda Legal Foundation -- urged supporters Wednesday to turn their energy toward winning in the political arena rather than the courts.

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Port thinks it is, and so perhaps do the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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