Judge: Public Not Allowed To Sue Border Patrol Officers At Checkpoints
By MassPrivateI A New Hampshire judge allowed part of an ACLU lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) checkpoints in three New England states…
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This Year, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel Will Exclude Some of its Citizens
By Janet Phelan The air-raid sirens begin to wail and for two minutes, Israel stands still. It is Holocaust Remembrance Day and the sirens, signaling…
4 Reasons Gun Control Can’t Solve America’s Violence Problem
By Mark Houser The gun-control paradigm—the idea that the solution to American violence is more laws restricting guns—is unhelpful. Gun control doesn’t work. Indeed, any…
Border Patrol Stops And Questions Drivers Who Look At Them Funny
By MassPrivateI A recent story in Jalopnik revealed that the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) is stopping drivers along our northern borders for allegedly looking…
EFF’s Crowd-Sourced Atlas of Surveillance Project Honored with Award for Advancing Public’s Right to Know About Police Spying
SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce it has received the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Electronic Access for its…
Activists and Rights Groups Sue Clearview AI, Warning “We Won’t Be Safe” Until Facial Recognition Firm Is Gone
By Brett Wilkins A group of civil liberties advocates and immigrant rights organizations on Tuesday sued Clearview AI in a Northern California court, alleging that…
Victory: Federal Court Agrees — Prosecutors Can’t Keep Forensic Evidence Secret from Defendants
By Kit Walsh When the government tries to convict you of a crime, you have a right to challenge its evidence. This is a fundamental…
40+ Rights Groups Urge Biden to Halt Federal Use of “Dangerous” Facial Recognition Technology
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of more than 40 advocacy groups is calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action imposing a moratorium on…
Tulsi Gabbard Warns Against the Danger of New ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Laws
By Brad Polumbo The January 6 attack on the US Capitol shocked the nation. Now, as so often occurs in the wake of tragedy, some Washington…
Enemies of the Deep State: The Government’s War on Domestic Terrorism Is a Trap
By John W. Whitehead This is an issue that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to…
Experts Warn Civil Rights Fallout from COVID Could be Far Worse Than the Pandemic Itself
By Raul Diego The very first executive order Joe Biden signed upon becoming the forty-sixth President of the United States was the national mask mandate…
“Put them on the no-fly list!”
By Edward Hasbrouck In the aftermath of the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week, there’s been a confused cacophony of calls to “put the…
New OCC Rule Is a Win in the Fight Against Financial Censorship
By Marta Belcher On Thursday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalized its Fair Access to Financial Services rule, which will prevent banks…
New Laws Grants “Protected Class” Status to Cops, Allows Them to Sue People for Harassment
By Matt Agorist As if blue privilege in the form of qualified immunity, special treatment under the law, ability to break laws they enforce, get…