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Trump’s Secret Rules for Drone Strikes and Presidents’ Unchecked License to Kill
The newly-revealed Trump rules show how far that administration went in casting aside any meaningful constraint on the United States’ use of lethal force abroad.
We Don’t Lose Our Privacy Rights When We Travel
At airports and other border crossings, travelers are being subjected to warrantless and suspicionless searches of their electronic devices. Here are some of their stories.
Privacy Rights Do Not Come With a Price Tag
Apps you use every day collect and sell sensitive data that could wind up in government hands without your knowing it. A new bill would change that.
The Public Should Have Access to the Surveillance Court’s Opinions
Decisions related to the surveillance of Americans should not be kept hidden from the public.
COVID-19 May Fade, But Will the Tracking Tools Built to Fight It?
We must ensure that temporary COVID-19 data surveillance infrastructures do not needlessly outlast this once-in-a-century pandemic.
The Computer Got it Wrong: Why We’re Taking the Detroit Police to Court Over a Faulty Face Recognition ‘Match’
Face recognition technology turns everybody into a suspect and threatens our civil rights.
Police Must Not Create Digital Dossiers of Data from our Phones and Computers
Courts are starting to scrutinize free-wheeling searches of the libraries’ worth of private information stored on our electronic devices.
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