Big Brother Watch FOI'd UK police forces. Between 2021 and 2025 they arrested at least 62,199 people for communications offences — roughly 34 arrests every single day. About 18,500 were charged. 12,...
Language tucked into the Senate's 2027 defense bill would let the Pentagon hire outside cybersecurity firms to penetrate computer networks the military chooses. Contractors would work under US Cyber C...
Concord, New Hampshire put private surveillance devices in public-housing apartments. The Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority bought them from a company called Mînut. They record movement and...
The problem we're actually trying to solve The push to repeal the 17th Amendment gets the diagnosis right and the prescription wrong. The diagnosis: the Senate was designed to represent the states as ...
Your deposit is not spare inventory for the Commission. In Paris on Friday, Ursula von der Leyen told French business leaders that Europe has about €10 trillion in household bank deposits "sitting o...
California did not just pass a privacy rule. It wrote AB 2624 — critics call it the Stop Nick Shirley Act — then Gov. Newsom signed it. The law expands Safe at Home to immigration-support nonprofi...
Flock was never the whole story. Sen. Josh Hawley just widened his AI surveillance investigation beyond Flock Safety to Motorola Solutions, Verkada, and Axon Enterprise. Same demand: how these private...
As of September 1, Barnet Hill Academy in London left the private sector and became a voluntary-aided school — almost entirely on the public payroll. The uniform policy stayed. Girls in Year 3 (age ...
Flock Safety now runs something like 120,000 automated license plate readers across American towns, feeding roughly 20 billion plate scans a month into a searchable database. Nobody voted for that. It...
VulnCheck bought an $88 "Deep Orange" router on Amazon from a New York seller. White-label ZBT hardware out of Shenzhen. Firmware from 2019. Two factory implants sitting in it. Not a later hack. Built...
Portugal's president signed Law 58/2026, the so-called "burqa law." It bans clothing "intended to conceal or obstruct the display of the face" in public. It takes effect September 23. Fines run €150...
Florida's health department is moving to strip four vaccines off the school-entry list: hepatitis B, chickenpox, Hib, and pneumococcal. Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo signed the proposed rule August 20...
Florida's health department is moving to strip four vaccines off the school-entry list: hepatitis B, chickenpox, Hib, and pneumococcal. Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo signed the proposed rule August 20...
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a joint resolution today to amend the Constitution and end automatic birthright citizenship for children of parents with no lawful status in the United States. The ...
The April 30 deadline for Section 702 is two days away, and Speaker Johnson keeps having to pull or rework his reauthorization bill. To anyone watching the Fourth Amendment, that's not chaos — that'...
The Department of Justice unsealed an 11-count fraud indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, 2026. What the grand jury found:$3M+ funneled to 8 confidential informants between ...
Senator Rand Paul is moving to close one of the most criticized loopholes in federal surveillance law: the use of FISA — a statute built to track foreign threats — to sweep up and search the commu...
Palantir published a 22-point distillation of CEO Alex Karp's worldview, drawn from his book The Technological Republic. Yanis Varoufakis fired back with a line-by-line annotation reading each point a...
On April 19, 1775, a few hundred Massachusetts militiamen met British regulars at Lexington Green and then at the North Bridge in Concord. The fighting that day killed roughly 49 colonists and 73 Brit...
Trump at White House President Trump posted yesterday that if Iran doesn't take his offer, "the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran." Set the...
Rep. Thomas Massie says two versions of a FISA reauthorization were pushed to the House floor overnight, both of which he argues would have let federal agencies continue surveilling Americans without ...
Scott Lincicome (Cato) flags a new Federal Reserve working paper that puts hard numbers on the 2025 tariff experiment. Per his summary of the findings: "Pass-through of realized tariffs into import pr...
Chart is from FIRE's 2026 College Free Speech Rankings — 68,510 undergrads surveyed Jan–June 2025. X-axis is willingness to allow a left-wing speaker on campus. Y-axis is the same for a right-wing...