Transit systems across the country are collecting information about the movement of riders via a company doing business with ICE contractor Palantir.
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Courts Keep Blocking Trump’s Moves Against the Right to Vote
We are protected not only by Congress’s rejection of the SAVE America Act. Courts are distinctly unsympathetic to Trump’s attempted takeover of elections via executive order.
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One Company May Know Everything About You
The world’s largest advertising conglomerate has proposed merging with the company that has built detailed profiles on every American.
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Washington Still Bows to the Surveillance State
Despite some bipartisan pushback, much of Congress remains unwilling to take on the national security establishment.
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Home Depot and Lowe’s Downplay Customer Surveillance Threats
Shareholders are seeking more info about how the companies collect and share data, including automatic license plate readers that cops and federal agents use to hunt immigrants.
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AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State
Warrants are at the center of the debate over government spying, and for good reason. But artificial intelligence is redefining the contours of that debate.
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Organized Money: The Chatbot Will See You Now
As Big Tech attempts to algo and chatbot your therapy, advocacy and new law fight to save the art and science of humans helping humans.
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Himes Fact-Checked on ‘Misleading’ Claims About Warrantless Spying
Jim Himes keeps telling his constituents that U.S. intelligence agencies don’t spy on them, and ‘have no reason’ to buy Americans’ data. Advocates say that’s untrue.
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Privacy Advocates Ambush Himes Over Clean FISA Push
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), a leader on the House Intelligence Committee, faced protests over his support for a warrantless spying regime.
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Warrantless Spying Reform Just Got a Whole Lot More Interesting
House Republicans have threatened to hold a foreign surveillance extension hostage unless the Senate agrees to voter suppression. It may flip the script on superfluous government spying.