law crime
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U.S. Justice Department Quietly Seized Washington Post Reporters’ Phone Records During Trump Era
The U.S. Department of Justice quietly seized phone records and tried to obtain email records for three Washington Post reporters, ostensibly over their coverage of then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Russia’s role in the 2016 presidential election, according to officials and government letters reviewed by the Post.
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European Commission Proposes Taking Away the Cops’ Big Boy Surveillance Machine
The EU is giving the U.S. a run for its money with privacy regulation, and now they’ve upped the ante with a dynamo of a proposal: banishing AI systems that violate “fundamental rights,” with a special place in hell for law enforcement using real-time biometric identification. The end of that sentence is more of a…
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Matt Gaetz’s Lackey Reportedly Used Venmo to Pay Off More Than 150 Women and One Minor
The details on Rep. Matt Gaetz’s role in an alleged sex ring are getting more sickening by the day, and today, a day that ends with “Y”, is no exception: New documents unearthed by the Daily Beast show that Gaetz’s wingman, sentient barf bag Joel Greenberg, used Venmo as his app of choice when making…
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U.S. Supreme Courts Sides With Google in Historic API Copyright Fight Against Oracle
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with Google over Oracle in one of the highest-profile copyright disputes to ever hit Silicon Valley.