Service Looked Through People’s Posts Prior to Street Protests Washington D.C.—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service and its inspection agency seeking records about a covert program to secretly comb through online posts of social media users before street protests, raising [Read More…]
Zack Whittaker reports: A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered a man accused of participating in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6 to unlock his laptop “with his face” after prosecutors argued that the laptop likely contains video footage that would incriminate him in the attempted insurrection. Guy [Read More…]
Todd Feathers reports that ShotSpotter data were altered in ways that supported a police version of events in a shooting. The prosecution has since withdrawn the ShotsSpotter evidence from the case. “Through this human-involved method, the ShotSpotter output in this case was dramatically transformed from data that did not support [Read More…]
From EPIC.org: The House of Representatives passed the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act (H.R. 2668) Tuesday on a 221-205 vote. The bill explicitly authorizes the Federal Trade Commission to seek monetary relief for injured consumers in federal court and to require bad actors to return money obtained through illegal actions. [Read More…]