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Another court case prompted by the Snowden leaks has reached its conclusion. And the findings are that Snowden's revelations were...

Thanks to the efforts of transparency activists Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS), residents of Chicago are learning more about the...

Tue, Jun 1st 2021 10:50am — Tim Cushing Polk County, Iowa prosecutors are making a name for themselves. And that name is "Enemy of the First Amendment." Earlier this year, Polk County prosecutor John Sarcone tried and failed to convict a Des Moines Register journalist for attending a protest and attempting to comply with conflicting orders from law enforcement. According to the prosecutor, journalist Andrea Sahouri failed to disperse when ordered to, even though other cops at the same scene w...

Fri, May 28th 2021 9:14am — Tim Cushing But should private companies be in the business of enforcing the law? Most people would say no. We have enough problems with our actual cops -- ones who are supposed to remain on the right side of the Constitution. Private companies dont have these obligations. Thats why they dont have the power (or the ability) to take other peoples rights away. But the effort to cloud the lines between public and private is continuous, and its going to do additional d...

Thu, May 27th 2021 10:44am — Tim Cushing Late last month, it was discovered the United States Postal Service was operating a social media surveillance program. The "why" of this was never explained. Apparently, the USPS has time and money to blow, so it has something called an "Internet Covert Operations Program" (iCOP) which it uses to investigate crimes that definitely are not of a postal nature. According to the two-page bulletin first reported on by Yahoo News, iCOP was trawling social me...

A proper adversarial system means the accused can confront the accuser. But that's rarely the case when crime solving software is...

Here's a small victory for the First Amendment and presumption of openness that's supposed to apply to court proceedings. A...

Wed, May 26th 2021 3:15am — Tim Cushing It looks like app developers want to be cops. Late last week, a Los Angeles resident spotted a Citizen-app branded patrol car roaming the city. Citizen is yet another app that allows residents to send crime alerts and other news to each other, following in the steps of Rings Neighbors app and Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social media service that only lets actual neighbors connect with each other. "Few things make you feel like you live in a bleak dystopian r...

The libs have been owned. They've been owned so thoroughly that Maricopa County, Arizona is going to need to buy millions of...

Tue, May 25th 2021 3:35am — Tim Cushing It certainly appears the new Attorney General is doing some house cleaning. A pretty steady drip of disclosures have made their way into the public sphere about the DOJs activities while headed by Bill Barr and overseen by the Trump White House. A couple of weeks ago it was disclosed that the DOJ had obtained three Washington Post journalists phone records while investigating leaks related to Russian interference in the 2016 election. More recently, a c...