Innocent Man Arrested, Held on $50K Bail for Holding Up a Sign in Public
By Matt Agorist Kitsap County, WA — Robin Hordon, 73, is an American citizen who is outspoken about his views on anti-militarism, feminism and environmental…
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Maine Sets Example With “Country’s Strongest” Facial Recognition Ban
By Brett Wilkins Civil liberties advocates on Wednesday cheered as Maine enacted what that state’s ACLU chapter called “the country’s strongest statewide facial recognition law.”…
Knightscope’s Robots Have Scanned Billions Of Cellphones, Millions Of People And License Plates
By MassPrivateI During the height of the pandemic, Knightscope posted a blog titled “By The Numbers” with the above image. Their blog is basically a…
Supreme Court Says You Can’t Sue the Corporation that Wrongly Marked You A Terrorist
By Cindy Cohn In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court late last week barred the courthouse door to thousands of people who were wrongly marked…
George Orwell’s 1984 Has Become a Blueprint for Our Dystopian Reality
By John W. Whitehead “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”— George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously:…
The Overlapping Infrastructure of Urban Surveillance, and How to Fix It
By Matthew Guariglia Between the increasing capabilities of local and state police, the creep of federal law enforcement into domestic policing, the use of aerial…
In Landmark Free Speech Decision, SCOTUS Rules That Schools May Not Police Social Media Posts Made Off Campus
By Angela Morabito In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the Mahanoy Area School District violated a student’s First Amendment rights by punishing…
Biden’s New “Red Flag” Law Encourages States to Take Guns Without Due Process
By Matt Agorist As TFTP reported in April, Biden promised sweeping gun control and rolled out a list of Executive Orders attacking the 2nd Amendment…
The State Convinced People It Was Dangerous for Them Not to be Watched — Now Many Believe Surveillance Tech Is “for our own good”
By Aden Tate Yet another consequence of 2020 was the growth of public surveillance (aka Big Brother state) disguised under the umbrella of COVID. When…
The FBI’s Mafia-Style Justice: To Fight Crime, the FBI Sponsors 15 Crimes a Day
By John W. Whitehead “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”— Friedrich Nietzsche Almost every…
22 Rights Groups Tell PayPal and Venmo to Shape Up Policies on Account Closures
San Francisco – Nearly two dozen rights groups, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), have joined together to tell PayPal and its subsidiary Venmo to…
Nullify Federal Gun Control: Four States Get the Ball Rolling
By Michael Boldin Using the 10th Amendment to defend the 2nd Amendment – four states with new laws on the books for 2021. And 3…
Recent Court Rulings Could Mean Jail Time for People Who Film Police
By Matt Agorist George Floyd, Eric Garner, Alton Sterling, Alexander Gonzales, Walter Scott. and countless others all have one thing in common — their last…
Biden Promised Criminal Justice Reform, But Still Hasn’t Repealed One of Trump’s Worst Policies
By Hannah Cox Tonya Smith and her husband, Dimitrios Patlias, went to a casino in Maryland a few years ago and struck luck. They took…