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Get an overview on encryption and some simple steps you can take to make sure your communications are read only by the right people. A free, very good app and easy-to-use app you can download for super-secure text messaging and phone calls is called Signal.

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Much of the privacy protection we need in today’s world can’t happen without technological and legislative solutions, and the ACLU will continue leading the fight for digital security and privacy through our litigation and advocacy efforts. But there are simple steps that everyone can take to improve their digital privacy. While there are many advanced techniques that expert technologists can deploy for much greater security, below are some relatively basic and straightforward steps that will significantly increase your protection against privacy invasions and hacks.

Ansly Damus, an asylum seeker from Haiti had spent more than two years incarcerated at a jail in Chardon, Ohio, despite having never committed a crime.

Ansly had not stepped outside the Geauga County Safety Center since arriving there in October 2016. The jail has no outdoor space, so he spent all of his time in a windowless dormitory. His long imprisonment is unusual; jails typically hold people awaiting trial or are serving short sentences under a year.

He was held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for more than two years, despite having been granted asylum twice by an immigration court, first in April 2017 and then again in January 2018. Each time, the government appealed the ruling, and denied his request for parole even though he poses no threat to public safety and has a loving community rooting for him.

Ansly’s long journey took a positive turn last week, when ICE finally decided to release him on Friday, after a hearing in federal court on Nov. 28 in which District Judge Judith E. Levy questioned the basis of his continued detention.

Ansly had been an ethics and math teacher in Haiti. His troubles began when he spoke out against corruption in Haitian politics. While he was leading a youth seminar, he referred to a local government official as someone who works with gangs to terrorize the people. Later that day, he was attacked by members of “La Meezorequin,” a well-armed gang that supported the official. Threatened with death, he fled Haiti and sought asylum at the U.S. border in California in October 2016.

A married couple from Cleveland Heights, Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin, heard about Ansly's case. They met Ansly in January 2018, and they agreed to sponsor him during his asylum process.
They also formed a support group of about “a dozen people who have been working diligently on providing support to Ansly, funding his jail account, donating books to the jail library, etc.” They called themselves “Ansly’s Army.”

They were in the courtroom for his last hearing. They had organized a bus trip for around 30 supporters, mostly retired seniors, to drive from Cleveland to Ann Arbor, Michigan to show support.

The hearing lasted close to two hours with both sides presenting arguments. During a five-minute recess, Gary and Melody gave Ansly a hug — their first physical contact.

ICE finally decided to release Ansly – without offering any explanation for his two-year imprisonment and on the condition that he wears an ankle monitor – Melody and Gary and his ACLU lawyers were there to greet him.

There is still a long road ahead. Ansly’s asylum application is currently before the Board of Immigration Appeals. But he’ll be able to wait for that decision among friends.