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Posts about marijuana written by Tim Cushing and Techdirt

Posts about play store written by Dark Helmet and Techdirt

Everyone likes an easy day at the office. Cops are no exception. They like easy excuses to disregard the Fourth Amendment. Pretextual stops are how cop business has been done for years. Any missing tail light or (subjectively) too dark window tint is enough to initiate a traffic stop and apply pressure on drivers to…

Section 230: not just for those irascible tech giants politicians keep grandstanding about. We all may have a love/hate/really hate relationship with various social media services, but Section 230 also protects the little guys. So, while it might be momentarily satisfying to cheer on the latest comeuppance attempt by political opportunists, remember it's going to…

Posts about opramachine written by Tim Cushing

Posts about snail mail written by Tim Cushing and Techdirt

For as long as the United States Postal Service (USPS) has had scanners, the government has been able to obtain information about senders and recipients. Under the Third Party Doctrine, information shared with third parties (in this case, shared with the government directly) is the government's to have. No warrant needed. The USPS has been…

Posts about estonia written by Tim Cushing, Techdirt, and Michael Ho

Posts about spain written by Tim Cushing and Techdirt

For a few years now, the EU Commission has been pushing legislation that would undermine, if not actually criminalize, end-to-end encryption. It's "for the children," as they say. To prevent the distribution of CSAM (child sexual abuse material), the EU wants to mandate client-side scanning by tech companies -- a move that would necessitate the…