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Supreme Court Considers Whether Police Can Arrest People They Merely Assume Are Breaking The Law

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SCOTUS is hearing a case today that involves the complex and often-misinterpreted Fourth Amendment: District of Columbia v. Wesby.

Why Creating A National ID System Would Threaten Americans’ Privacy And Security

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The proposition that the federal government should be entrusted with even more information on citizens is a bit of a high-stakes gamble.

Supreme Court To Hear Most Important Fourth Amendment Case In A Generation

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Should government be able to seize your smartphone and other private digital information without a warrant and use it against you?

Why The Supreme Court Should Say Privacy Rights Include People’s Data

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The Supreme Court should protect our telecom data from being wrongly seized. It should recognize this data as the property of telecom users and require a warrant before it is seized.

12 Reasons Congress Shouldn’t Make Lifelong Surveillance The Price Of Citizenship

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Republican leaders are sponsoring three bills that would expand the U.S. surveillance state under the guise of improving education and government efficiency.

Why Congress Shouldn’t Expand Intelligence Agencies’ Power To Spy On Americans

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What will it take for some Republicans to stop blindly supporting the federal government’s most powerful bureaucracy?

Supreme Court To Decide Whether You Own Your Own Data

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The justices shouldn’t extend law enforcement’s reach beyond our borders. More importantly, Congress needs to update a 30-year-old law for the digital age.

Instead Of Overregulating Tech, Grant People Ownership Of Their Data

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If tech regulations are not carefully constructed, they could reduce quality for consumers, fail to encourage competition, and prove a bigger burden to startups than established behemoths.

Banning Trump From Blocking People On Twitter Is Bad Law And Bad Politics

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It sounds like a joke, but the laughter stopped when a federal judge ruled Wednesday that Trump’s actions violated the First Amendment and declared it must cease.

In Ruling That Taking Cell Data Requires A Warrant, SCOTUS Stole Congress’s Job Again

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In Friday’s split decision, the justices reversed the lower courts and held that to obtain historic cell-site information from third-party providers, the government must obtain a warrant.

Here’s The Libertarian Case For Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination

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Libertarians aren’t going to agree with Kavanaugh on everything—we don’t agree on everything ourselves!—but he’s a big step forward for constitutional liberty.

How To Talk To Your Kids About Their Rights If They’re Ever Stopped By The Police

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Here's how to talk to your children about their rights, how to show respect to the police, and the hard truth that officers sometimes abuse their power.

DOJ Lawsuit Demands Names Of All People Who Use This App For Their Gun

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Creeping government control is nothing new, but the DOJ's recent disregard for the Second and Fourth Amendments shows old protections against abuses of power will wear thin without public vigilance.

The Feds Don’t Need To Tell You Or Get A Warrant To Collect Your Emails And Phone Records

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In reality, the government can obtain electronic communication records without taking any extraordinary measures. There are very few limitations on this congressional power.

Biden’s Vaccine Passport Plan Is A ‘Dystopian Nightmare’ Cloaked In COVID Safety-Speak

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Critics on both sides of the political aisle continue to weigh in on privacy risks and potential invasions if Biden moves forward with a vaccine passport.

Indiana Parents Sue Governor Over COVID Rules: ‘These Are Healthy Kids They’re Quarantining … And We’re Just Done’

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‘Just the psychological pressure these kids are facing, they don’t have that ability to really fight for themselves, so that’s why we, as parents, I feel like we don’t have any other choice,’ says father Mike Bell.

Amir Locke’s Killing Is A Grim Reminder That No-Knock Police Raids Are Un-American

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Amir Locke raidWhatever our politics, all Americans should be able to recognize that no-knock police raids have no place in a constitutional republic.

The CIA Got Caught Spying On Americans Again. It’s Time For Congress To Make Them Stop

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CIA websiteThe CIA's surveillance authorities need to be sharply curtailed and the market for third-party data restructured or eliminated entirely.

If Big Brother And Big Tech Can Team Up To Violate Political Opponents’ Privacy Over J6, They Can Do The Same To You

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US CapitolWhat the Rhine case reveals is the danger that a partnership between an equally politicized federal government and Big Tech presents to disfavored groups. 

Strong Encryption Is A Must If Big Tech Is Creating Back Doors For Feds 

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Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson interviewBig Tech has been all too eager to share its users’ information.




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