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The FBI Wants To Be Your Facebook Friend
14 April 2022
Undoubtedly, the FBI has always surveilled the open web, looking for persons or phrases of interest. It’s just going to get a whole lot better at doing it. And it’s going to spend millions of your tax dollars to make it easier to place...
american civil liberties union
babel street
babel x
cbp
customs and border protection
deep/dark web
facebook
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federal bureau of investigation
first amendment
foia
freedom of information act
ice
immigration and customs enforcement
instagram
linkedin
matt cagle
privacy impact assessment
techdirt
telegram
twitter
us secret service
vkontakte
washington post
youtube
Law Prof Suggests Geofence Warrants Are A Net Gain For The Public, Even If They Invert The Probable Cause Standard
5 April 2022
On March 9th, we covered a Virginia court’s decision to reject a geofence/”reverse” warrant as unconstitutional. This was brought to our attention by...
abc news
andrea roth
associated press
carpenter
compensatory damages
constitution
drug dogs
facial recognition
fourth amendment
fourthamendment.com
geofence
geofence warrants
google
law professor jane bambauer
lawfare
punitive damages
reverse warrants
state farm v. campbell
techdirt
third party doctrine
university of arizona
virginia
washington post
Spring Hill, Kansas, officer/intimidater Shaun Whitesell (left) & Olathe, Kansas, officer/dog killer Mark Cantrell
Court Grants Qualified Immunity To Officer Who Told Couple To Take Down Facebook Post About Off-Duty Cop Who Shot Their Dog
7 February 2022
This case -- sent to us by Eric...
brittany knudsen
eric goldman
facebook
first amendment
great dane
jessica cantrell
john knudsen
kansas
nala
officer mark cantrall
officer shaun whitesell
olathe
qualified immunity
spring hill
spring hill police department
techdirt
Fraternal Order Of Police Opposes Biden FCC Nom Because She....Supports Encryption
13 December 2021
We'd already noted how telecom and media giants eager to keep their spoils from the Trump era have been waging a not so subtle smear campaign on Biden FCC Commissioner nomination Gigi Sohn...
at&t
eff
electronic frontier foundation
encryption
fcc
fraternal order of police
gigi sohn
joe biden
news corporation
senator joseph manchin iii
senator kyrsten lea sinema
techdirt
The report "Frustrating, Corrupt, Unfair: Civil Forfeiture in the Words of its Victims" is given in the responses that follow.
Institute For Justice Survey Shows How Philadelphia's Forfeiture Program Preyed On Poor Minorities
8 November 2021
The Institute for Justice managed to kill off...