USPS Gets Hit With Lawsuit Over Social Media Snooping
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Watch what happens when the drive for government surveillance meets longstanding technological ignorance.
Government domination of education has bred distrust and conflict.
Some agencies don't even know ways their employees are using facial recognition.
The ION project promises to give individual users absolute control over their online identity and privacy.
Six justices agreed that the state's "dragnet for sensitive donor information" imposes "a widespread burden on donors' associational rights."
"The gravity of the privacy concerns in this [case] is further underscored by the [amicus briefs supporting the challenge].... [T]hese organizations span the ideological spectrum ...: from the [ACLU] to the Proposition 8 Legal Defense Fund; from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to the Zionist Organization of America; from Feeding America—Eastern Wisconsin to PBS Reno."
Civil liberties advocates call for a moratorium on federal facial recognition.
The plaintiff is Francesca Viola, who wrote the comment when she was a journalism professor at Temple University.
Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.
The FBI provided "no factual basis for the seizure," Judge R. Gary Klausner wrote.
The former Google engineer talks about inflation, the Austrian school of economics, and how bitcoin is revolutionizing banking.
The Wyoming Republican believes bitcoin provides a serious alternative store of value, will spur renewable energy, and just might save the dollar.
And it's not a moment too soon.
Two states have passed laws requiring court approval before the cops can use genetic genealogy services to track down a suspect.
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Chairman Jerome Powell says the Fed will look into the "benefits and risks" of a digital dollar.
People have only official assurances that the technology isn’t being used to invade their privacy.
Doing the wrong thing at an off-campus party could lead to on-campus consequences.
"When you've done nothing wrong, you shouldn't be subjected to an investigation," says Paul Snitko, whose box was seized in a March 22 FBI raid of a Beverly Hills business.
In a lawsuit, attorneys for the box's owner allege that federal agents conducted an illegal search that may have resulted in the loss of some valuable gold coins.
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Targeting “extremists” threatens civil liberties while increasing the stresses that lead to violence.
If plaintiff broadly claims that defendant libeled her by "imputing unchastity," she risks having to disclose a lot about her sexual history.
Cops laugh about “probable cause on four legs” but the damage to innocent lives is real.
Police were finally able to catch the serial killer using DNA genealogy databases—violating many innocent people's constitutional right to privacy.
Victims of the FBI's constitutionally dubious raid say they've been told to come forward and identify themselves if they want their stuff back.
Section 702 is supposed to be used to snoop on spies and terrorists, not Americans.
The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.
More than half of Americans don’t have these new licenses. Airports are supposed to start checking them by October.
A 2018 Supreme Court decision was supposed to protect your location data from federal snooping. That’s not what happened.
The surveillance state is available as a plug-and-play solution for any cop interested in a free trial period.
"Defendant has established that the images are a matter of public concern, as they speak to Plaintiff's character and qualifications for her position as a Congresswoman, allegedly depicting an extramarital sexual relationship with a paid campaign staff member, the use of illegal drugs by a sitting Congresswoman, and a tattoo similar to the symbols formerly used by white supremacists."
So holds the Florida Court of Appeal, interpreting the Florida Constitution's crime victims' rights provision. ("If a prosecutor determines that the officer was not a victim and instead charges the officer for his conduct," the names would be released, but no such determination was made here.)
Gripes about publishers getting "private commercial benefit" from "hate speech, propaganda, and statements that seek to destabilize American democracy"; argument that "[t]he public figure doctrine emerged in an era prior to the Internet advertising model that rewards news organizations for the ongoing display of defamatory content."
Remember: Lawyers’ true superpower is the power to turn all questions into questions about procedure.
A privacy controversy in a lawsuit by privacy advocate Marc Rotenberg (formerly of EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center).
No, says the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, though over a dissent.
Sounds right to me.
Obvious, but good to have a cite for that.
Databases of involuntarily supplied identities make for a plug-and-play surveillance state.
Overbroad Injunctions Against Speech
Some speculation from my forthcoming article.
“[T]hat the subpoenas directed at Mrs. McCloughan may be less of a bona fide effort to obtain evidence supportive of the claims brought in the Indian Action, than they are an effort to burden and harass individuals formerly associated with the Washington Football Team who may have acted as sources for The Washington Post story.”
A broad coalition of groups is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the state's policy.
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