Do You Feel Safer Knowing the FBI Has Access To 640 Million (!) Headshots?
Don't worry, a spokesman tells Congress, the agency has "strict policies" for using facial recognition technology.
Don't worry, a spokesman tells Congress, the agency has "strict policies" for using facial recognition technology.
Censorship inevitably ends up being used to protect the powerful from criticism.
Both still see surveillance abuse that needs fixing. They’re pursuing different paths to get there.
An ACLU brief bolsters the state's case, arguing that people reasonably expect information about the medications they take will be kept confidential.
Restrictionists once again discover that draconian rules aren’t enough to overcome people unwilling to obey.
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The President's effort to coerce Mexico into blocking the emigration of its own people undermines the distinction between keeping people out and locking them in. It thereby makes US immigration policy analogous to the Berlin Wall.
A lower court decision the Supreme Court is currently considering reviewing has important - and dangerous - implications for property rights.
Abroad, legislators are in the mood to theatrically punish social media companies. CEOs shouldn’t play along.
SCOTUS sidesteps the hard questions in Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky.
So holds a (nonprecedential) California Court of Appeal decision in the Jenni Rivera heirs vs. Univision case, though the decision is narrowly tied to these particular facts.
"Students are expected to attend classes. If they fail to do so without a valid excuse, their absence is duly-noted and appropriate action is taken. But the teachers at the center of this controversy expect different treatment."
The most absurd attack against the Michigan congressman involves ignoring his entire history in office.
"An elaborate investigative and enforcement regime designed to restrain, deter, suppress, and punish speech."
The "blogfather" once touted the internet as the antidote to Big Government, Big Business, and Big Media. Now he wants the feds to crack down on social media.
The Trump appointee warns that "little would be left of our First Amendment liberties" if cops could punish people who irk them by finding a legal reason to bust them.
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Sound words from a federal district court decision handed down last year.
Government-mandated privacy regulations will allow the most powerful companies to game it to their advantage.
So holds a district court, in a copyright case brought by the Jehovah's Witnesses against a Reddit commenter.
The Utah Supreme Court upheld a six-month suspension without pay, based in part (though not entirely) on these remarks; the judge has a history of past discipline on other grounds as well.
Episode 4 of Free Speech Rules, starring UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh
In the best of all possible worlds, such actions wouldn't be necessary. In the current climate, boycotting social media might spark a return to a robust marketplace of ideas.
Don't believe the Justice Department when it reassures journalists that the WikiLeaks founder is uniquely guilty of violating the Espionage Act.
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Under the government's theory in some of the charges, any reporter who knowingly prints certain kinds of government secrets could equally be prosecuted.
"I want to be clear that the comments I made are not indicative of who I am or who I've become in the years since."
What happens when cities and counties have their own ideas about a law that authorizes the seizure of guns from people who are mentally ill?
"In this day and age, one must accept the possibility that one might be recorded in public. That possibility heightens when one chooses to engage in vitriolic behavior."
Jon Goldsmith called a local deputy a "stupid sum bitch" on Facebook, so the deputy's superior charged Goldsmith with writing a threatening statement.
Or are Americans simply wising up to the dangers posed by cops having their "face prints" on file?
Tor, a leading service for anonymously accessing the Internet, is shielded by 47 U.S.C. § 230.
Marijuana legalization changes the constitutional status of canine olfactory inspections.
A Savannah, Georgia, law that required testing and licensing of tour guides is found unconstitutional.
The federal attempt to take the patch uniquely combines free speech violations and asset forfeiture.
The Supreme Court will consider the petition Thursday.
The senator asked for a private business to squash a citizen's communication, and they did it, though they don't say they did it for him.
For five years, the NYPD, its apologists, and even Mayor Bill de Blasio have absolved cops of their role in Eric Garner's death.
SCOTUS is likely to restrict abortion access, but in a more gradual way.
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