https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/maryland-supreme-court-police-cant-search-digital-data-when-users-revoke-consent Maryland Supreme Court rules that officers can't search data (without a warrant) after someone withdraws consent to do so.
https://reason.com/2023/07/27/brickbat-getting-slammed/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-man-paralyzed-run-police-gets-20-million-settlement-rcna93800
Elderly veteran receives $20 million settlement over lawsuit over being slammed into the ground by cops (over suspected drunk driving) and being left paralyzed.
Mocked by cops.
https://reason.com/2023/07/27/a-swat-team-destroyed-an-innocent-mans-shop-then-the-city-left-him-with-the-bill/ Man wants SWAT Team to compensate him for destroying his shop.
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/27/teachers-at-private-texas-school-fired-for-going-to-drag-show.html Teacher at private school fired for going to drag show.
WATCH: Senate Commerce is about to vote on KOSA.
You can watch the livestream and take action at the same time here https://www.badinternetbills.com/#livestream
Keep fighting!
Inside intel + expectations on the #KOSA committee vote today: they’re probably going to pass it out of committee. But! They’re shaking in their boots thanks to the thousands of people who are calling them out. What we’re doing is WORKING, and the fight is far from over.
This describes it well.
https://reason.com/2023/07/26/he-spent-10-years-behind-bars-without-being-convicted-hell-have-to-wait-longer-to-have-the-case-resolved/ Isn't it unconstitutional to lock someone up for a decade without a trial?
https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-31-sex-lies-and-surveillance-fosta-privacy.html Oh. I forgot about this article. How nostalgic.
Of course, he is trying to invoke a weak flavor of "won't anyone please think of the children?" to try to push his unconstitutional ideas.
https://element.io/blog/end-to-end-encryption-the-will-of-the-british-people/ Apparently, there is a survey which shows how valuable Brits think end-to-end encryption is to their lives.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide I would set fire to this entire bill. It's a mess.
Someone had the idea of uploading every image to Microsoft's servers for them to check for evil bits. Isn't that a bit... intrusive...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY Since we're talking about Microsoft, here's a hilarious video starring Steve Ballmer.
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