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Press Freedom Index, over half of the world’s countries now fall into the “difficult” or “very serious” categories for press freedom. In 25 years, the average score of all 180 countries and territories surveyed in the Index has never been so low. Since 2001, the expansion of increasingly restrictive legal arsenals — particularly those linked …
404 Media – Palantir is making ICE faster. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of Palantir systems now means agency officials effectively have a list of 20 million people readily accessible on their iPhones, increasing the speed at which ICE can find houses to raid and people to arrest, according to comments made by a …
Project Saltbox: “Federal records show the agency is purchasing expanded access to a private biometric database built largely through sheriff partnerships. The Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy 1,570 iris scanning devices to Immigration and Customs Enforcement locations across the country within 30 days of finalizing a no-bid contract with the Massachusetts technology company …
Reuters Daily Docket [subscription]: “The ABA is weighing a sweeping rollback of DEI-related accreditation rules for law schools amid federal pressure and state pushback. What’s happening? The ABA is moving to eliminate or scale back three diversity and non-discrimination standards in its law school accreditation rules. A key committee recommended scrapping the long-standing diversity requirement, …
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Developer: The Trump administration’s newly released counterterrorism strategy now names “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists” as one of three “major types of terror groups” facing the United States, placing them in the same strategic category list as narcoterrorists, transnational gangs, and legacy Islamist terrorist groups. The document says U.S. counterterrorism activity will prioritize …
Gizmodo: “Most people are well aware at this stage that their activity is being observed on just about every website and platform they visit. But if there is only one place you would hope might be free of invasive trackers, it’d be healthcare exchanges operated by state governments. Don’t get those hopes up. According to …
“At 6:05 a.m. on Jan. 14, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation converged at the door of Hannah Natanson, a reporter at The Washington Post. They had a search warrant and entered her home, seizing her iPhone and other devices … The event put Ms. Natanson’s name among the targets of the Trump administration’s …
PCMag – “Those cameras you keep seeing? They’re run by Flock Safety, a private company that tracks more than just your car’s plates. Did you know that all those cameras you see on street corners in your neighborhood aren’t owned (and in some cases, aren’t monitored) by your local government or police department? Instead, the …
Notice News: “Two new data points on the weaponization of federal law enforcement. First, the Justice Department is seeking the names of 2020 election workers in Georgia’s Fulton County (Huffington Post News) — a transparent attempt to build harassment or prosecution lists targeting people who administered the election Trump lost. Second, the U.S. attorney’s office …
Wired [no paywall]: “Greg Hogan, an affiliate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will serve as acting assistant commissioner of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a unit within the General Services Administration (GSA). There, he will oversee Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity service. Gregory Barbaccia, the federal chief information officer and …
Wall Street Journal Gift Article: “Once left for dead, the company is making money again with hidden software in 275 million cars. You use it every day without knowing it. John Wall has spent nearly his entire career working for the same company. And when he tells people where he works, nobody has any clue …
