torrents are undefeated:
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Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.
“Some subscribers recently received a heads-up that they're on the hook for a new rate ‘set by an algorithm using your personal data.’ We asked a UVA expert what that might mean.” washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/t...
I gave a law school lecture about this 10 years ago, talking about Decentralized Autonomous Corporations spending cryptocurrency to hire humans to do work.
The school district has a contract with Thomson Reuters Clear and uses the system for residency verification. The school flagged this woman even though she lives in the district.
Tell me again how license plate readers will only be used for serious crimes.
You All Should Have Listened To Me When I Pointed This Stuff Out In 2019: Chapter XXXVIII
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks to the media after attending Congressional briefings on Iran at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Chris Murphy: “This is the most incompetent, incoherent war America has fought in the last 100 years — this administration has no idea what they are doing
I have great sympathy for our soldiers & our military leaders — they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind”
Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign.
Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
As soon the DeSantis signs this bill into law, Florida will be sued. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
“A bipartisan bill would force the FBI to get a warrant to read Americans’ messages and ban the federal purchase of commercial data on US residents ahead of a critical April deadline.” www.wired.com/story/us-law... @wired.com
Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case
Contact your Senators and tell them to vote NO on the SAVE Act. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.
#DefendDemocracy
#NoSaveAct
#congresswomankatherineclark
#WomenForward 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The normalization of facial recognition continues.
This story is likely just the tip of the iceberg www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
UPDATE: Judge Elkins — in light of this amicus brief (and the defendant’s reply) — gives DOJ a sur-reply on the Posse Comitatus challenge to JAG lawyers prosecuting in Minnesota, due by March 24, and sets argument on this issue at a previously scheduled April 3 hearing.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...
Koyaanisqatsi - movie poster with moon behind a building at night
Koyaanisqatsi - life out of balance
help!
fed courts and civ pro professors - if you an expert on the collateral order doctrine or the magistrates act, i'd love to hear from you ASAP - DM or email me please
UPDATE: New adds to our running list of judges who have ruled on ICE's mandatory detention policy.
For the admin:
-Judge Susan Brnovich (Trump)
-Total: 38
Against the admin:
-Bridget Brennan (Biden)
-Joseph Saporito (Biden)
-Total: 400
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Surveillance is not a purely philosophical issue with purely esoteric harms. Surveillance is a sensitive and often faulty trigger that summons armed agents of the state with impunity that can take away a person's freedom.
"Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon’s decision designating the #AI company a '#SupplyChainRisk' over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology." apnews.com/article/anth... @apnews.com
They will not stop unless the law makes them.
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Attorney says your settlement cannot be reopened. But ChatGPT says the attorney is gaslighting you. So you have ChatGPT make dozens of frivolous filings to reopen your settlement. The defense spends $300,000 fending off 44 frivolous, hallucinated motions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
They will not stop until the law makes them.
NEWS: A Justice Dept. line attorney in North Carolina fabricated quotes in court filing, causing judge to order hearing to consider sanctions and holding entire US attorney’s office jointly responsible.
Pro se defendant flagged the errors.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
🚨 Registration is now open for PETS 2026 in Calgary!
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Some Supreme Court Justices think that viewing the Fourth Amendment as a right to "privacy" is an illegitimate 1960s Warren Court policy invention. But it's not: That language goes back to the beginning, as I showed in this 2022 article. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcont...
