Category «Legal Research»

Welcome To America’s New Surveillance High Schools

Forbes: “Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety — a setup the district spent $4.8 million on in the 2024-2025 fiscal year and considers necessary given the school’s high-profile …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ICE List Wiki

Crust News and Dominic Skinner: “The ICE List Wiki is now public. It documents immigration enforcement activity across the United States, not just ICE, but Border Patrol, HSI, DHS more broadly, and the hundreds of local police departments operating under 287(g) agreements. Agent identities, incidents, raids, vehicles, supporting agencies, and companies propping up the regime, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

An electricity crunch is driving high bills in these states. It’s not getting better anytime soon

CNN – no paywall – “Residents of mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent years plagued by high electricity bills just got some bad news: Relief is not on the way. As CNN recently reported, utility customers in Maryland and Washington, DC, are some of the first in the country to …

Subjects: AI, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research

The Epstein Files Trump’s DOJ Didn’t Mean to Show You

The Epstein Files Transparency Act required full release of all unclassified DOJ Epstein records by December 19, 2025. To date, DOJ has released two partial, heavily redacted sets, still withholding an untold number of documents in multiple formats, and no schedule of release has been made public. In addition, the DOJ removed and added additional …

Subjects: Congress, E-Records, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Anna’s Archive rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify

annas-archive.li/blog, 2025-12-20 “We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity. This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs. It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Resources for Financial Market Data

CRS Report, Resources for Financial Market Data. R47379. 12/15/2025. Download PDF | PDF Version History. The U.S. financial system contains large and active markets for stocks, bonds, and commodities, as well as digital assets (e.g., cryptocurrencies) and other financial instruments. This report describes authoritative, open-access sources for current and historical information about major financial markets …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

The year the government broke

The Verge [no [paywall] –  “2025 was the year the federal government and consumer protections were gutted…There was the record 43-day government shutdown that threatened food access for millions of low-income Americans, threw air travel into chaos, halted space launches, and delayed consumer products that needed regulatory approval. There was Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

The U.S. TikTok deal is official. Here’s what we know.

tubefilter: “An internal memo sent to TikTok employees has confirmed a rumor that has been swirling for months: ByteDance is about to sell the U.S. version of its social video app to a White House-approved ownership group. In the memo, which was viewed by Axios, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told his staff that TikTok U.S. will be sold to a …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

“Surviving CECOT”

To partially address CBS News pulls ’60 Minutes’ segment; correspondent blasts ‘political’ decision and ‘60 Minutes’ censored for not protecting Trump – The Trump administration sent innocent people to a torture camp. The head of CBS News blocked a 60 Minutes report on the story because it’s too focused on the facts – See also …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Economy, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Searchable database for the Epstein Files – Only Fraction of Files Released

Below the Belt – We created a searchable database for the Epstein Files, including everything the DOJ wants hidden. “The repository will continue to grow as the Trump administration releases hundreds of thousands more documents from the investigation into Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. The US Department of Justice on Friday [December 19, 2025] published a …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Search Engines

The year Trump broke the federal government

The Washington Post [no paywall]: “How DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the nation’s sprawling bureaucracy…“It isn’t easy to fire federal employees,” her co-worker told her. “We have all these protections. We’ll be okay.” He was wrong. The United States’ 2.4 million federal employees were about to get caught up …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Defense, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Housing, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research