Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 12, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 12, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Legal Research, Privacy

Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used

Ars Technica: AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says. On Thursday, a digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, published an expansive investigation into AI-generated police reports that the group alleged are, by design, nearly impossible to audit and could make it easier for cops to lie under oath. Axon’s Draft One …

Subjects: AI, Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Updated ‘PLUM’ book offers deeper look at Trump administration officials working governmentwide

Federal News Network – “There is now a public list showing the names, agencies and salaries of more than 9,000 Trump administration officials and career federal leaders currently working across government. The Office of Personnel Management on Wednesday updated the PLUM book — a digital employment roster listing virtually all senior federal leaders governmentwide. The …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

First Amendment: Government Retaliation for Protected Expression

CRS Legal Sidebar – “The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment provides that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.” The clause applies to any government action, whether federal, state, or local. Individuals may be able to challenge violations of their free speech rights in a variety of …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Senate report details “preventable failures” surrounding Butler assassination attempt

Axios: “The U.S. Secret Service denied multiple requests for additional resources from President Trump‘s detail during his campaign, according to a new report on the Butler, Pennsylvania, assassination attempt. The big picture: The report released Sunday from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs detailed a “disturbing pattern of communications failures and negligence” …

Subjects: Congress, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online

Open Culture: “..the thousands of mid- to late 19th century titles at the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature. Their digitized collection currently holds over 10,000 books free to read online from cover to cover, allowing you to get a sense of what adults in Britain and the U.S. wanted children to …

Subjects: Education, Libraries

Not Working For You

Today we launched a website to track how much Trump plays golf. TrumpGolfTrack.com This site provides URLs, titles and links to news stories that track when and where Trump play golf during the course of his term in office as the 47th President of the United States. This tool is made with publicly available information …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids

Bellingcat: “Armed and masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles. Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus. Street vendors roughly tackled to the ground and forcefully held down. Since early June, the streets of Los Angeles have borne witness to frequent and aggressive immigration raids that have seen people …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, Free Speech, Government Documents, Legal Research

DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’

Wired: “The Department of Homeland Security is urging local police to consider a wide range of protest activity as violent tactics, including mundane acts like riding a bike or livestreaming a police encounter, WIRED has learned. Threat bulletins issued during last month’s “No Kings” protests warn that the US government’s aggressive immigration raids are almost …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Internet, Legal Research, Social Media