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| 03.11.2024 | The New Frontier of Public Safety: Drones and AI in Emergency Response | In a world where seconds can mean the difference between life and death, technology is stepping up to the plate. Drones, once seen as toys or tools for aerial photography, are now becoming vital assets in emergency response. The marriage of... |
| 02.11.2024 | National Politics | Debate over abortion rights leads to expensive campaigns for high-stakes state Supreme Court seats | “I think it’s an inappropriate manner, a clear violation of our judicial standards, our code of conduct,” he said.A supporter holds a sign before Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak at a campaign ra... |
| 30.10.2024 | The Battle for Ballots: Fires, Hurricanes, and the Fight for Democracy | In the lead-up to the 2024 elections, the integrity of the voting process is under siege. From arson attacks on ballot drop boxes in Washington and Oregon to the chaos wrought by hurricanes in the Southeast, the landscape of American democr... |
| 29.10.2024 | Data Shows ‘Progressive’ Prosecution Policies Don’t Lead To Higher Crime Rates | Donald Trump and the politicians that either think like him, or think saying things like this might make him like them, continue to pretend major US cities are besieged by violent criminals. While there have been a few spikes in certain cit... |
| 29.10.2024 | National Politics | Ballot drop box fires highlight concerns that election conspiracy theories are making them a target | In this image made from a video provided by KGW8, authorities investigate the scene as smoke pours out of a ballot box on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Vancouver, Wash. (KGW8 via AP)
In Vancouver, hundreds of ballots were lost at a ballot box a... |
| 29.10.2024 | National Politics | Trump v. Harris? Replay of 2000 election clash is a Supreme Court long shot | The chances of another Bush v. Gore are “pretty small,” said Joshua Douglas, an election-law professor at the University of Kentucky. “The court is not going to want to get involved unless it absolutely has to.”Smaller universe
The Supreme ... |
| 28.10.2024 | National Politics | Fires set in drop boxes destroy hundreds of ballots in Washington and damage 3 in Oregon | The office will be increasing how frequently it collects ballots and changing collection times to the evening, Kimsey said, to keep the ballot boxes from remaining full of ballots overnight when similar crimes are considered more likely to ... |
| 25.10.2024 | National Politics | Trump says he’ll undertake the ‘largest deportation’ in US history. Can he do that? | The ex-president went on to say that he would send “elite squads” of federal law enforcement officers to “hunt down, arrest and deport” every migrant gang member. Those who attempt to return to the U.S. would be served with 10-year prison s... |
| 25.10.2024 | National Politics | FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims surrounding the 2024 election | The Bucks County district attorney’s office said in an emailed statement Thursday evening that they and the Yardley Borough Police Department investigated the video and “concluded that this video was fabricated in an attempt to undermine co... |
| 25.10.2024 | National Politics | ‘Firehose’ of election conspiracy theories floods final days of the campaign | Doss, the executive director of the Richmond County Board of Elections, said many voters in his county do not believe absentee ballots are counted properly. Many think election officials are choosing which ballots to count based on the neig... |
| 24.10.2024 | The Shadow of Misinformation: Navigating the Post-Election Landscape | As the 2024 election approaches, a storm brews on the horizon. The winds of foreign interference and domestic misinformation threaten to disrupt the electoral process. This isn’t just a passing squall; it’s a tempest that could shake the ve... |
| 23.10.2024 | National Politics | Here are 4 campaign promises from Trump. What are their chances if he wins? | Trump — who also has pledged to exempt tips and overtime pay from taxation — began floating the idea of eliminating taxes on Social Security during rallies and on his Truth Social account this summer.Related Articles
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| 23.10.2024 | 'Same playbook': Voting falsehoods mire US election | WASHINGTON: Four years after a US presidential race awash with misinformation, Americans face more of the same in the closing weeks of this year's campaign, with claims about ballot irregularities and fraud likely to dominate.
With conspira... |
| 22.10.2024 | The W-Boson Revelation: A New Chapter in Particle Physics | In the world of particle physics, the quest for understanding the universe is akin to navigating a labyrinth. Each twist and turn reveals new mysteries, and sometimes, dead ends. Recently, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) delivered a signifi... |
| 22.10.2024 | Elon Musk's $1 million election giveaway tests limits of election law | United StatesPublic Policy
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| 22.10.2024 | National Politics | US officials expect foreign meddling to last past Election Day | Lawrence Norden, vice president of the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, said foreign powers could lean on the same influence efforts they have used before, such as creating fake news sites to amplify false... |
| 22.10.2024 | National Politics | FACT FOCUS: Inactive voters on Michigan’s rolls are misrepresented in suggestions of fraud | “Jocelyn Michelle Benson, shame on you for blatantly lying to the public!” Musk wrote in an X post directed at Michigan’s secretary of state. “You only plan to remove ineligible voters AFTER this election. That necessarily means that there ... |
| 20.10.2024 | Midjourney планирует выпустить инструмент, который позволит пользователям редактировать любые изображения | Компания Midjourney готовится к запуску обновлённого веб-инструмента, который позволит пользователям редактировать любые изображения, загруженные из интернета, с помощью генеративного ИИ. Как сообщил генеральный директор компании Дэвид Холь... |
| 18.10.2024 | National Politics | In a close election, here are 3 legal disputes that could reach the Supreme Court | Here’s a look at some issues causing waves in key swing states that could end up at the Supreme Court if there is a razor thin margin separating Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump.Pennsylvania mail-ballot dates
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| 16.10.2024 | Secretary Toulouse Oliver Testifies to the U.S. House of Representatives About Election Confidence and Preparations for the 2024 General Election | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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| 11.10.2024 | The Battle for Election Integrity: Navigating the Storm of Disinformation and Cybersecurity | In the digital age, elections are battlegrounds, not just for votes but for trust. The integrity of the electoral process is under constant scrutiny. Since 2020, voting systems have faced relentless attacks, yet they are fortified with laye... |
| 11.10.2024 | National Politics | Voting systems have been under attack since 2020, but are tested regularly for accuracy and security | Officials rely on a voter registration system that is a database of registered voters and have an election management system that workers use to create, issue and track ballots. They also use an election-night reporting system that reports ... |
| 10.10.2024 | National Politics | Election conspiracy theories fueled a push to hand-count votes, but doing so is risky and slow | Shasta County, a conservative rural county in northern California, last year abandoned plans to hand-count ballots after the plan was estimated to cost $1.6 million and require more than 1,200 additional employees.
Still, some jurisdictions... |
| 05.10.2024 | The Battle for the Ballot: How New Voting Laws Could Shape the 2024 Election | As the 2024 election looms, the battleground states are gearing up for a showdown. The stakes are high, and the rules of the game are changing. New voting laws are being introduced, and old ones are being challenged. The outcome of this ele... |
| 05.10.2024 | National Politics | In the tightest states, new voting laws could tip the outcome in November | “The last four years have been a long, strange trip,” said Hannah Fried, co-founder and executive director of All Voting is Local, a multistate voting rights organization.
“Rollbacks were almost to an instance tied to the ‘big lie,’” she ad... |
| 21.09.2024 | Georgia election board orders hand count of votes in US presidential contest | Georgia's Republican-controlled election board voted on Friday (Sep 20) to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays, introduce errors and lay ... |
| 11.09.2024 | Police Union Says Fuck Officers, Law And Order; Tosses Endorsement To Donald Trump | The Fraternal Order of Police isn’t here to protect cops from anything but accountability. It doesn’t actually care about the rank-and-file, not when it can leverage its power to secure even more power. It doesn’t care about law and order, ... |
| 07.09.2024 | The Battle for Certainty: Election Certification in a Divided America | As the November presidential election looms, the air is thick with tension. Swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin are bracing for a showdown. The stakes are high, and the ground is shifting beneath our feet. Election certification, once ... |
| 06.09.2024 | National Politics | Swing states prepare for a showdown over certifying votes in November | Citing their positions on the Board of Canvassers, the letter went on to claim that because of new state election laws, including one that allows for early voting, “All of the ingredients required for voter fraud were present.”
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| 06.09.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Trump’s ridiculous mass deportation ‘solution’ hides his lies about the Southern Border | Not so fast, Mr. Pants on Fire.
There was a spike in violent crime — and it was during Trump’s watch. In 2020, during the final year of Trump’s presidency and in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic that he mismanaged terribly (don’t inject bl... |
| 12.08.2024 | Governor To Students: ‘Look The Other Way’ If You’re Bothered By Mandated Posting Of Ten Commandments In Public Schools | We fought a revolution for this?!?
This is the new America: a loose confederacy (yes, I’m using that correctly [and pointedly]) of states that desire to see us returned to the harsh reality our founding fathers (and colonists before them) l... |
| 07.08.2024 | Documents Show Atlanta PD Engaged In Surveillance Of ‘Cop City’ Protesters | One of the things that’s supposed to separate us from the animals is the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. Supposedly, that’s also one of the traits that puts cops on one side of the Thin Blue Line and the rest of us on the ot... |
| 10.07.2024 | National Politics | More states consider voter ID laws amid conflicting research on their impact | Voting rights advocates cite research showing that such rules block many legitimate voters — especially young, Black and Latino voters — from the polls. But backers of voter ID laws point to other studies which suggest that the rules have h... |
| 10.07.2024 | National Politics | House passes GOP bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote, boosting election-year talking point | Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson, a key backer of the bill, said in a news conference earlier this week that the Democratic opposition means many Democrats “want illegals to participate in our federal elections; they want them to vote.... |
| 08.07.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Peter Certo: Extreme inequality is the real threat to free speech | Consider this spring’s campus protests against Israel’s war on Gaza and U.S. support for it.
Conservative politicians who’d thrown fits over free speech on campus cheered as police officers roughed up and arrested student protesters. Some e... |
| 28.06.2024 | National Politics | Despite GOP headwinds, citizen-led abortion measures could be on the ballot in 9 states | Two more states, Maryland and New York, have abortion rights ballot measures that were referred by their state legislatures, though New York’s is currently tied up in litigation.
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled the constitut... |
| 17.06.2024 | National Politics | New voter registration rules threaten hefty fines, criminal penalties for groups | After Wendell, 62, finished filling out the form, Perret recited a well-rehearsed disclaimer: She would turn in the paper to Orange County’s supervisor of elections within 10 days. He should get his new voter ID in the mail within 30 days.
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| 06.06.2024 | National Politics | Alito’s flag controversy foreshadows contentious Supreme Court rulings | Even if the justices fully reject immunity later this month, “they’ve given the gift to Trump of not having a trial before the election,” said Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law... |
| 30.05.2024 | National Politics | The newest election battlefield for abortion: State supreme courts | Last week, the Planned Parenthood Votes super PAC and the National Democratic Redistricting Committee announced they would invest $5 million on state supreme court races “to protect democracy and reproductive rights.”
“We are in the fight o... |
| 22.05.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: A felony conviction should not come with a life sentence on voting rights | Butler’s bill also includes elderly offenders who are considered less likely to commit a crime again and reinstates their voting rights even if they are still under home detention, completing their parole.
But the nearly 30,000 people relea... |
| 21.05.2024 | Public Records Show Cops Are Still Very Interested In Surveilling People Who Protest Against Cops | There are few groups of people cops like less than people who don’t like cops. But it’s not that these people don’t like cops, per se. It’s that they’re tired of cops doing whatever they want whenever they want with near-zero accountability... |
| 14.05.2024 | Nearly 80 officials overseeing elections in 7 swing states doubt 2020 results | Reno — Washoe County, Nevada, is a battleground county in a critical battleground state and may hold the keys to congressional contests, and potentially the presidency. But in this cycle, one of the most consequential races in the state is ... |
| 10.05.2024 | The Painful Reality of Being an Incarcerated Mother | Many of us will celebrate Mother’s Day over the weekend by remembering or being present with women who raised us, or with our families. But for the more than 190,000 women incarcerated in the United States this weekend, there will be no cel... |
| 03.05.2024 | US election disinformation targets non-citizen voting | WASHINGTON: Illegal immigration on the US southern border is a top talking point among Republican politicians, but some are taking it a step further by promoting disinformation about non-citizens voting in the presidential election.
With th... |
| 03.05.2024 | NIST запустила новую платформу для оценки генеративного ИИ NIST GenAI | Национальный институт стандартов и технологий (NIST) объявил о запуске NIST GenAI — новой программы, направленной на оценку технологий генеративного искусственного интеллекта, включая ИИ, генерирующий тексты и изображения. Она сможет отлича... |
| 29.04.2024 | NIST announces new initiative to create systems that can detect AI-generated content
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| 29.04.2024 | NIST launches a new platform to assess generative AI | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Commerce Department agency that develops and tests tech for the U.S. government, companies and the broader public, on Monday announced the launch of NIST GenAI, a new progr... |
| 22.04.2024 | National Politics | Local election workers fear threats to their safety as November nears. One group is trying to help | By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY (Associated Press)
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The group gathered inside the conference room, mostly women, fell silent as the audio recording began to play.
The male voice, clearly agitated, railed against what he t... |
| 18.04.2024 | House Approves FISA Spy Program Renewal Amid GOP Turmoil | The House passed a bill to extend the FISA spy program for two years, after facing resistance from conservative Republicans. The vote was split, with 273 in favor and 147 opposed. The legislation aims to reform and extend Section 702 of the... |
| 12.04.2024 | House passes 2-year warrantless surveillance law extension | JASON ANDREW/THE NEW YORK TIMES
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), speaks to reporters as he walks back to his office at the Capitol in Washington, today. The House took a critical first step, today toward reauthorizing a law extending an ... |
| 08.04.2024 | Election | Colorado officials warn of new frontier in election denial as more Republicans refuse to certify vote totals | Colorado election officials from both major parties say a typically innocuous step in the certification of vote totals has increasingly been seized upon by activists to cast doubt over state elections.
Since 2020, a small but growing number... |
| 07.04.2024 | Flash: Menopause is no longer stigmatized | On any given night in Las Vegas, the crowds show up for what has become one of the hottest shows in town. It's "Menopause: The Musical" – 90 minutes of singing on a topic people used to just whisper about, from hot flashes to weig... |
| 27.03.2024 | National Politics | Fearing political violence, more states ban guns at polling places | Matt Vasilogambros | (TNS) Stateline.org
Facing increased threats to election workers and superheated political rhetoric from former President Donald Trump and his supporters, more states are considering firearm bans at polling places and b... |
| 21.03.2024 | US Courts Finally Trying To Crack Down On Judicial Shopping | This took way too long, but it appears that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the Judicial Conference have finally decided to crack down on the serious problem of judicial shopping in the federal courts. They’ve set a new policy ... |
| 06.03.2024 | Political deepfakes are spreading like wildfire thanks to GenAI | This year, billions of people will vote in elections around the world. We will see — and have seen — high-stakes races in more than 50 countries, from Russia and Taiwan to India and El Salvador.
Demagogic candidates — and looming geopolitic... |
| 04.03.2024 | Gov. Lujan Grisham strengthens public safety by signing robust legislation into law | ALBUQUERQUE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham today signed critical public safety legislation to reduce gun violence and strengthen penalties for violent criminals.
“This legislation strikes at the heart of issues that are keeping New Mexicans ... |
| 27.02.2024 | Educators teaching AI literacy to students should include ethics in their lesson plans, scholars say | AI Educators teaching AI literacy to students should include ethics in their lesson plans, scholars say
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| 21.02.2024 | Google DeepMind forms a new org focused on AI safety | If you ask Gemini, Google’s flagship GenAI model, to write deceptive content about the upcoming U.S. presidential election, it will, given the right prompt. Ask about a future Super Bowl game and it’ll invent a play-by-play. Or ask about th... |
| 19.02.2024 | National Politics | Feds deliver stark warnings to state election officials ahead of November | Matt Vasilogambros | Stateline.org (TNS)
WASHINGTON — Federal law enforcement and cybersecurity officials are warning the nation’s state election administrators that they face serious threats ahead of November’s presidential election.
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| 16.02.2024 | Tech giants sign voluntary pledge to fight election-related deepfakes | Tech companies are pledging to fight election-related deepfakes as policymakers amp up pressure.
Today at the Munich Security Conference, vendors including Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Adobe and IBM signed an accord signaling their inte... |
| 15.02.2024 | FTC Ban on Deepfakes Could Soon Cover All Consumers | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 15 February 2024, 09:02 pm
A new proposed modification of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) deepfake ban is reportedly on the horizon, seeking to cover all consumers against artificial intelligence-generated (A... |
| 15.02.2024 | FTC seeks to modify rule to combat deepfakes | Spurred by the growing threat of deepfakes, the FTC is seeking to modify an existing rule that bans the impersonation of businesses or government agencies to cover all consumers.
The revised rule — depending on the final language, and the p... |
| 15.02.2024 | SPLC project to boost expertise in fighting Deep South racial gerrymandering | With legal challenges to redistricting efforts increasingly hinging on the testimony of expert witnesses, the Southern Poverty Law Center is launching an initiative to train mathematicians and others on the sophisticated statistical and map... |
| 13.02.2024 | Promising Florida voting rights bill honors little-known civil rights martyrs | Broken glass and scattered pieces of wood clamored across the porch of the white clapboard house tucked into the 6-acre orange grove in Mims, Florida. When the fog and dust lifted, the house’s columns stood off-kilter and the contents of th... |
| 12.02.2024 | President Biden has a meme strategy, and it’s leaning on Dark Brandon | President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign has finally set up shop on TikTok.
Despite controversy in Congress over the app, TikTok is an indispensable tool for presidential candidates to reach young voters, experts say.
“I wasn’t surprised a... |
| 01.02.2024 | Meet the UC Berkeley professor tracking election deepfakes | Not in recent history has a technology come along with the potential to harm society more than deepfakes.
The manipulative, insidious AI-generated content is already being weaponized in politics and will be pervasive in the upcoming U.S. Pr... |
| 29.01.2024 | I’m an anesthesiologist. Kenneth Smith’s execution by nitrogen gas was far from ‘textbook’ | On Thursday evening, the state of Alabama executed Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen gas. Now, there are dueling narratives about what happened. Alabama claims it went perfectly, proving that nitrogen is a humane, effective alternative to le... |
| 07.01.2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Joan Donovan: Jan. 6 was an example of ‘networked’ incitement. Threat of of political violence orchestrated over social media remains real. | By Joan Donovan
The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized most major protests over the past few decades.
What set Jan. 6 apart was the president of the United States using his c... |
| 25.12.2023 | Five bold cybersecurity predictions for 2024 | Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
It’s Christmas already? In less than a week, 2023 will be in the rear-view mirror. This means it’s not too... |
| 23.12.2023 | California's exodus continues, with population dropping for the third year in a row, putting its political influence at risk | Real Estate California's exodus continues, with population dropping for the third year in a row, putting its political influence at risk
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| 04.12.2023 | Politics | In face of threats, election workers vow: ‘You are not disrupting the democratic process’ | Matt Vasilogambros | Stateline.org (TNS)
Hundreds of election workers in Washington state’s second-largest county were busy opening mail-in ballots earlier this month when one of them came across a plain white envelope. As she cut it open, ... |
| 03.12.2023 | Meet Allison Greenfield, the law clerk driving Trump bonkers at his fraud trial | In his New York civil fraud trial, Donald Trump has cast the judge's top clerk, Allison Greenfield, as one of his many political enemies. Curtis Means-Pool/Getty Images; David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
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| 22.11.2023 | Lifting the Veil on the Design of Predictive Tools in the Criminal Legal System | Recently, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) — the research arm of the Department of Justice (DOJ) — put out a call for researchers to participate in what they called the “Recidivism Forecasting Challenge”. The challenge was designed t... |
| 10.11.2023 | State and local governments across the country are sidelining science | In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop. After four torrential days, 75 people had died, and Houston — America’s fourth largest city — was deep under water. But given that the area is home to Superfu... |
| 10.09.2023 | NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals | Law NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals
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| 11.08.2023 | Florida sets up formerly incarcerated people to vote — then arrests them | In a country where wealth and friends in high places can go a long way in making legal problems disappear, John Boyd Rivers has neither of those advantages.
He and his wife barely scrape by in Alachua County, Florida, raising eight children... |
| 08.08.2023 | Don't Let the Math Distract You: Together, We Can Fight Algorithmic Injustice | Around the country, automated systems are being used to inform crucial decisions about people’s lives. These systems, often referred to as “risk assessment tools,” are used to decide whether defendants will be released pretrial, whether to ... |
| 02.08.2023 | A lawyer argued that mass riots triggered by Trump's power grab could be crushed by US troops: indictment | Donald Trump has been indicted for a third time. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images
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| 19.07.2023 | Why Companies Need To Defend Their Diversity Policies | Diversity and Inclusion policies at Fortune 500 are under attack following the latest Supreme Court ... [+] decision on affirmative action.getty |
| 07.07.2023 | How the Supreme Court blocked Alabama’s effort to dilute Black voting power | The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision ordering the state of Alabama to draw a new congressional voting map reaffirms the essential role of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in ensuring that communities of color have the opportunity to be fai... |
| 02.07.2023 | Some US cities are allowing corporations to vote in local elections in hopes of stimulating the economy | Seaford, Delaware updated its charter in April to give businesses a vote in local elections. iStock/Getty Images
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| 23.06.2023 | Advocates register voters after Supreme Court victory over gerrymandering | When Monica Clarke began working at Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, she was looking for something, a calling, that she could bring to her work.
As the school’s service and learning coordinator, she was in contact with students dai... |
| 17.06.2023 | Should Air Pollution In New York And Washington D.C. Trigger A Climate Emergency? | NEW YORK, US - JUNE 6: A view of orange haze illuminated the skies across the East on Tuesday ... [+] morning as wildfire smoke from Canada spread across the East in New York, United States on June 6, 2023. Air quality alerts have been issu... |
| 16.06.2023 | Activists Call BS On FBI’s Section 702 Abuse Band-Aid, Demand Major Reforms To Surveillance Power | It’s renewal time again, and this time the snooper squad is facing unprecedented push back. Sure, a lot of it is politically motivated, what with the post-Trumpians still getting high on their own “deep state” supply. Even as opportunistic ... |
| 06.06.2023 | 'Night Fury': Documents Detail DHS Project to Give 'Risk Scores' to Social Media Users | Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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| 31.05.2023 | How Pride Becomes the Norm | TOPSHOT - Participants of the 'Regenbogenparade' (Rainbow Parade) march in Vienna, Austria, are ... [+] pictured on June 17, 2017. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and transsexual people attended the parade in the Austrian capital. / AFP... |
| 25.05.2023 | DeSantis Super-PAC added fake military jets and jet-wash to a video | Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
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| 15.05.2023 | The Failure of Presidential Reform for a Second Trump Presidency | Yes, “a second Trump administration would be much worse,” as the Vox headline said after Trump’s CNN town hall meeting. And yes, “Trump’s Second-Term Goal” would be to “Shatter[] the Norms He Didn’t Already Break,” as the New York Times rep... |
| 04.05.2023 | CISOs, Don’t Ignore the FISA Section 702 Debate | Chief information security officers (CISOs) in the U.S. and abroad may not realize the stake they have in a congressional battle shaping up this year.
The two of us have spent our careers advising CISOs: the men and women battling hackers a... |
| 02.05.2023 | State Supreme Courts Offer the Best Chance to Advance Rights | Recent decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court are, to use a complex legal term, not great. In many areas, from abortion to voting rights to tribal sovereignty, the current court has curtailed civil rights and individual freedom, even at the ... |
| 01.05.2023 | The US ‘war on terror’, 20 years after ‘mission accomplished’ | Washington, DC – Two decades ago, on May 1, 2003, then-US President George W Bush declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” in a speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, with a banner behind him proclaiming “mission accomplished”.... |
| 28.04.2023 | Biden’s Spyware Order: A Needed First Step | Investigative reports show that the Mexican government has become the most prolific user of spyware in the world, illegally deploying intrusion technologies from Israel-based NSO Group to spy on prominent human rights defenders, journalists... |
| 26.04.2023 | A New Approach to Prosecuting Border Militias | Private militias epitomize the recent resurgence in domestic terrorist activity in the United States. One of the more alarming interactions between militias and civilians—especially in the Southwest—is during militia patrols along the U.S.-... |
| 22.04.2023 | Samuel Alito used his dissent in the abortion pill ruling to call out 3 justices in an act of judiciary 'theater,' SCOTUS expert says | Supreme Court justices Samuel Alito and Elana Kagan testify about the court's budget during a hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee March 07, 2019 in Washington, DC. Chip Somo... |
| 21.04.2023 | A Supreme Court justice resigned 54 years ago over conduct that may 'pale in comparison' to Clarence Thomas' — but Thomas is almost certain to get off scot-free thanks in part to the 'Trump effect' | Abe Fortas; Clarence Thomas CORBIS/Corbis/Getty Images; J. Scott Applewhite, File/Associated Press
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| 19.04.2023 | Will ChatGPT Revolutionize Surveillance? | Everywhere you look lately, people are discussing the potential negative uses and consequences of the AI-driven chatbot ChatGPT. Many are concerned about the potential for ChatGPT and other “large language models” (LLMs) to spread a fog of ... |
| 09.04.2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Paul M. Collins Jr. and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha: Trump’s personal attacks on judges could further weaken trust in rule of law | By Paul M. Collins Jr. and Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha
When former President Donald Trump was arraigned in a Manhattan criminal court on April 4, 2023, Judge Juan Merchan warned him to “refrain” from making social media posts that could incite vi... |
| 14.03.2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Courts, and Real Harms | The international legal community saw a paradigm redefined at the beginning of this year. Judges in Colombia, for the first time, openly used generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to author parts of their judicial opinions. In the first ... |
| 22.02.2023 | When Elections Threaten the Rule of Law: The Good Governance Paradox of Judicial Elections | State courts handle the preponderance of legal disputes in America. Federal courts have increasingly deferred to states to demarcate the scope of foundational rights, and decisions by these courts have substantial impact on how Americans or... |
| 17.02.2023 | Reducing Government Overclassification of National Security Information | Editor’s Note: This article is an expansion of the budget-based approach to classification that Lin presents in his Nov. 25, 2022, Boston Globe op-ed entitled “Want to make it ‘top secret’? Pay top dollar.”
Recent disclosures that President... |