So Long as You Carry a Cellphone, the Government Can Track You
A phone in your pocket may as well be a GPS beacon strapped to your ankle.
A phone in your pocket may as well be a GPS beacon strapped to your ankle.
Two women still face felony charges, though the cases against all male defendants were dropped.
Platform censorship results from centralized design. Cryptocurrency techies are building decentralized alternatives.
Government agencies have repeatedly proven themselves to be abusive.
Online companies might not be as nefarious as you think.
Plus: Biden won't pursue Trump's TikTok and WeChat bans, Mitt Romney's child allowance plan, and more...
Each episode explores how to fix laws that entrench privacy-violating practices.
Plus: Oregon decriminalizes hard drugs, Kroger closes stores over hazard pay rule, and more...
Meanwhile, he’s still trying to downplay corruption within his own force.
Authorities "shall destroy the videos unlawfully obtained through the surveillance of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa," a federal judge says.
Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties.
Justice Clint Bolick dissents in Arizona v. Mixton.
Bureaucracy keeps on regulating through the chaos
Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. We could use a little less of that, please.
The idea is looking less like a Get Out of Jail Free card and more like a hall pass.
Government surveillance doesn't just violate privacy rights; it’s a major security risk.
Don't just file the document unsealed, and then ask for sealing
Time to add a hat and sunglasses!
By lowering the “travel rule” threshold to $250, the government could access more of our financial data.
Constitutional amendment overwhelmingly passes.
The National Security Agency arranged for security systems to be secretly compromised. Then the Chinese government allegedly found its way in.
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
In 2014, more than half of all California wiretaps (and one sixth of all the wiretaps in the U.S.) were authorized by one judge in Riverside County.
An attempt to protect litigant privacy meant that binding precedent was vanished from Westlaw.
Part two of a four-part series on the history of the cypherpunk movement
An Ohio judge suggests the answer should be "yes," and an Ohio statute seems to require that when Facebook employees learn of specific felonies revealed by posts that they might be monitoring for some reason.
Why does media coverage conclude the problem is that the government hasn’t done a good enough job of spying?
A federal appeals court concludes that the agency's mass collection of phone records was illegal and probably unconstitutional.
Defeating surveillance is a powerful argument for covering your face.
"I know what moral panics look like; they look kind of like this."
Officials have never liked it when people are free to move about—and beyond their reach.
New apps can work as surveillance techniques for the government. They can also serve as anonymous health tools for people hoping to return to normal life.
The Eleventh Circuit threw out a lawsuit brought by former NRA President Marion Hammer.
Huawei’s Safe City security system is undergoing a massive expansion across Belgrade.
Americans are increasingly monitored, and COVID-19 health concerns aren’t improving the situation.
Will tech companies resist orders to cooperate with demands for information to root out dissidents?
"Supreme Court jurisprudence...is heavily weighted against you," an appeals judge told state prosecutors last week.
A new, terrible anti-encryption bill with a twist
Two years of rule-flouting by elites and ordinary citizens show the unsustainability of top-down prohibition.
While there are still numerous barriers to access in Louisiana's medical marijuana system, a specific list of "qualifying conditions" will no longer be one of them.
Apple and Google’s API promises to put privacy first. State health authorities have other ideas.
Plus: Breonna’s Law bans no-knock raids in Kentucky, Amazon's third-party problem, new findings on metabolism, and more...
Weak reforms to the government’s power to secretly snoop on Americans wasn’t enough for the president. What happens next?
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