Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts So Many Americans in Jail
By Sam Jacobs Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. Arcesilaus, Greek philosopher and student of Plato…
Civil Liberties
Martial Law Masquerading as Law and Order: The Police State’s Language of Force
By John W. Whitehead “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who…
Victory! Individuals Can Force Government to Purge Records of Their First Amendment Activity
By Aaron Mackey The FBI must delete its memo documenting a journalist’s First Amendment activities, a federal appellate court ruled this week in a decision…
Victory! California Senate Votes Against Face Surveillance on Police Body Cams
By Haley Tsukayama The California Senate listened to the many voices expressing concern about the use of face surveillance on cameras worn or carried by…
Americans Deserve Their Day in Court About NSA Mass Surveillance Programs
By David Greene EFF continues our fight to have the U.S. courts protect you from mass government surveillance. Today in our landmark Jewel v. NSA…
Groped by the TSA? #MeToo And FINALLY We Can Sue
By Dagny Taggart Last Friday, a US federal appeals court sided with the people – finally. The court ruled that travelers can sue the Transportation…
Five Concerns about Amazon Ring’s Deals with Police
By Matthew Guariglia More than 400 police departments across the country have partnered with Ring, tech giant Amazon’s “smart” doorbell program, to create a troubling…
Natural Rights: Not Gifts from Government
By Michael Boldin A lot of people refer to their rights by Amendment number. Doing so is not only a constitutional error, it’s dangerous. Thomas…
The Politicization of Justice
Op-Ed by Renee Parsons The American criminal justice system has long been a sharp painful thorn in the nation’s consciousness as if to remind us…
The Gov’t Gave Her Son a Sex Change Without Parental Consent, And Other Weekly News From The Twilight Zone
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Welcome to our Friday roll up, where we highlight the most interesting, absurd, and concerning stories we are following this…
Say No to the “Cashless Future” — and to Cashless Stores
By Jay Stanley I went to a counter-serve restaurant recently, and when the time came to pay for my order, took out my wallet, presented…
Communities Across the Country Reject Automated License Plate Readers
By Haley Pedersen Recent months have seen a wave of cities and counties around the country rejecting the use of automated license plate readers in…
Facial Recognition: 10 Reasons You Should Be Worried About The Technology
By Birgit Schippers, Queen’s University Belfast Facial recognition technology is spreading fast. Already widespread in China, software that identifies people by comparing images of their…
Top Court Rules Cops Can No Longer Stop People After Claiming to Smell Marijuana
By Matt Agorist In case after infuriating case, the Free Thought Project has reported on instances of horrifying rights violations all stemming from a police…