"The 2021 Request seeks information that may inform the United States House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means as to the efficacy of the Presidential Audit Program, and therefore, was made in furtherance of a subject upon which legislation could be had."
Evidence turned over in a lawsuit shows that wildlife officers set up a trail camera at a private club to surveil hunters who may be breaking state laws.
One Medical and Amazon are going to provide a much-needed alternative to consumers who are already frustrated by the health care system.
After Amazon admitted it gives Ring footage to police departments upon "emergency" request, San Francisco Mayor London Breed wants cops to be able to access any camera at any time.
Federal prosecutors want to keep key details about the planning and execution of the March 2021 raid at U.S. Private Vaults out of the public's sight.
Bitcoin's creator designed it to be radically transparent, but the tools exist to make it as hard to trace as cash.
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Antiabortion activists are the new Anthony Comstocks.
The surveillance state’s appetite for sensitive information is dangerous under any flag.
Residents of Nogales are now under the gaze of a round-the-clock surveillance craft.
Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks sues a company that's in the business of delivering "chocolate Dick[s]," "offensive 5 inch chocolate phallus[es] with no redeeming social qualities, whatsoever."
Reade sued over the Times' including a portion of her social security number in a photo of her federal identification card accompanying a story. A federal court has rejected her claim, and she may also be required to pay the Times' legal fees.
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The claims arise out of “UPMC’s purported disclosure of their confidential medical information to [child protection authorities] for the purpose of targeting them with highly intrusive, humiliating and coercive child abuse investigations starting before taking their newborn babies home from UPMC’s hospitals shortly after childbirth.”
New York City pressures Wall Street banks to report "self-identified gender, race and/or ethnicity of individual directors."
The last 50 years have been marked by a remarkably stable social consensus balancing the rights of women and fetuses. Let's not throw that away.
ICE has spent $2.8 billion since 2008 developing surveillance and facial-recognition capabilities, mostly in secrecy and without real oversight.
The abortion precedent has faced withering criticism, including damning appraisals by pro-choice legal scholars, for half a century.
Consumers lose out when compliance costs prevent services from ever entering the market.
Stop government interference in reproduction, medical decisions, gun ownership, drug use, and more.
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Proposed EU rules would be equivalent to tracking all cash transactions
Jeff Kosseff's The United States of Anonymous makes a strong case for letting people hide behind the First Amendment.
The author of the definitive history of Section 230 is back with a controversial new book, The United States of Anonymous.
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So holds a Tennessee court.
No class of governments can be trusted with access to people’s private communications.
Two lessons from the Canadian truckers' protest
The case stems from defendant's claims that plaintiff, a comic book writer, said racist things to her at a comic-book-business social function.
The government controls on the traditional banking system also apply to custodial cryptocurrency services.
on remand, jury must be instructed that it has to determine (among other things) whether the defendant “reasonably believed the conversation was not confidential.”
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It probably won't save any children, but it might mean the end of encrypted messaging.
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“We totally stalked what they were doing on Google,” one teacher said.
Facial recognition software can secretly surveil and is subject to error.
In a program separate from the ones disclosed by Edward Snowden, we see more mass secret domestic data collection.
