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The set of minimization rules the NSA was supposed to apply to its bulk records collections was issued in 2006. As was noted here earlier, the FISA court laid down a number of limitations and restrictions in this document -- which the agency nearly immediately began violating. The rules applying to bulk record searches is…

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Time for an update on the NYPD scene. As you'll recall, both Mayor Bloomberg and Police Chief Ray Kelly exited their respective offices in their respective huffs, claiming the city would fall apart if the sanctity of the NYPD's Constitution-skirting programs (stop-and-frisk, the Muslim-watching Demographics Unit) weren't preserved. The legal battle over the constitutionality of…

It's been a decade since a federal court declared the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program (mostly) illegal. Judge Shira Scheindlin, in a 195-page decision, pointed out everything that was wrong with the program, which ignored the "Terry stop" parameters defined by the Supreme Court in its 1968 decision to engage in stops of anyone…

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So, we’ve been talking a lot about age verification of late, as governments around the world have all (with the exception of Australia?!?) seemed to settle on that as a solution to “the problem” of the internet (exactly what that problem is they cannot quite identify, but they’re pretty sure there is one). Of course,…

The UK government is still pushing a bill that would give it more direct control of the internet, but it has, at least for the time being, decided against mandating broken encryption. For months now, supporters of the Online Safety Bill have insisted the only way to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material…

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