The Great Disappearance of 2009
By Janet Phelan Around 2009, 40,000 people disappeared from the streets of Los Angeles. The biannual homeless census for 2005, conducted by the Los Angeles…
Civil Liberties
Two Ways Our World Resembles “1984”
By Jon Miltimore When I took 1984 with me on vacation recently, I didn’t expect to read it. Unlike the two other books with me—Jordan…
5 Important Stories We’re Paying Attention To
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man Last week we started a new feature in Notes from the Field– a Friday roll-up of bizarre, often overlooked stories that my…
Law Enforcement Uses Facial Recognition To Identify Shoplifters
By MassPrivateI For those of you who still hold onto to the idea that America will never follow in China’s Big Brother footsteps, I give…
Artificial Intelligence Facial Recognition Is Now Becoming More Diverse And Inclusive
By WeAreChange Facial recognition is being rolled out across the planet at warp speed despite being riddled with errors. Luke Rudkowski and Jason Bermas cover…
San Diego Has Been Turned Into A Massive Chinese-Style Public Surveillance Network
By MassPrivateI Can you imagine a city in the United States secretly creating a Chinese-style public surveillance network that can identify everyone? Can you imagine…
Governments Must Face the Facts about Face Surveillance, and Stop Using It
By Hayley Tsukayama and Adam Schwartz It’s time for governments to confront the harmful consequences of using facial recognition technology as an instrument of surveillance….
Win in Washington State: Judge Strikes Down Unconstitutional “Cyberstalking” Law Chilling Free Speech
By Rebecca Jeschke Great news out of Washington state: a federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects speech on the Internet, even from…
Arizona Trying to Become First in U.S. to Require Citizen DNA
By Jason Erickson Apparently emboldened by President Trump’s recent signing of the Rapid DNA Act, Arizona could be the first to make DNA collection mandatory…
After Innocent Couple Murdered Over Cop’s Lies, Houston Police Vow No More No-Knock Raids
By Matt Agorist Houston, TX — It has been three weeks since the Houston police department fabricated information which led to a no-knock raid on…
New York’s Crackdown on Knives Sparks Legal Battle
By Ilya Shapiro It is fundamentally (and constitutionally) unfair to impose criminal liability on people who have no way of knowing their conduct is illegal…
Rule by Fiat: National Crises, Fake Emergencies and Other Dangerous Presidential Powers
By John W. Whitehead “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”—Richard Nixon Who pays the price for the dissolution of…
Worldwide Effort To Restrict Everyone’s Right To Travel Is Close To A Reality
By MassPrivateI According to a recently published white paper there is a worldwide effort to restrict the right to travel of everyone. And you will not…
Chicago Public Schools Monitored Social Media for Signs of Violence, Gang Membership
By Aaron Leibowitz for ProPublica Illinois, and Sarah Karp, WBEZ Chicago This is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ Chicago. In January 2017, after…