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What if every one of your noncash financial transactions was automatically reported to a beefed-up, audit-hungry IRS?
An encryption back door will lead to abusive authoritarian surveillance—even if you present it as a way to stop child porn.
"You have no choice in the matter."
The report followed media investigations into ShotSpotter's reliability and activist pressure on Chicago to cut its contract with ShotSpotter.
The law just addresses use of individuals' data by private companies, carving out exceptions for government harvesting of data.
Cryptocurrency advocates fight back against major government overreach.
Three of the officers were denied qualified immunity, but accountability is a long way off.
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Watch what happens when the drive for government surveillance meets longstanding technological ignorance.
Some agencies don't even know ways their employees are using facial recognition.
The government's long and shameful history of intercepting people's letters
The agency best known for delivering mail has a side hustle in online snooping.
The House of Representatives gave the agency $2 billion in additional funding.
The Fox News pundit’s emails were probably reviewed legally—and that’s part of the problem.
Baltimore kept tabs on citizens' movement across 90 percent of the city, without a warrant, to investigate crimes.
And it's not a moment too soon.
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If this doubly punitive anti-press maneuver sounds familiar, that's because it keeps happening, including to Reason.
It's ten times more powerful than the current U.S. effort.
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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.
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Section 702 is supposed to be used to snoop on spies and terrorists, not Americans.
Say what you will about the U.S., but its financial reporting rules are at least consistent.
A 2018 Supreme Court decision was supposed to protect your location data from federal snooping. That’s not what happened.
Databases of involuntarily supplied identities make for a plug-and-play surveillance state.
Two women still face felony charges, though the cases against all male defendants were dropped.
Government agencies have repeatedly proven themselves to be abusive.
A sloppy panopticon is almost as dangerous as an effective one.
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Authorities "shall destroy the videos unlawfully obtained through the surveillance of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa," a federal judge says.
Government grows in response to a crisis.
We don’t need new tools or agencies to track alleged domestic terrorists.
Frightening events create openings for attacks on civil liberties.
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The idea is looking less like a Get Out of Jail Free card and more like a hall pass.