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Former ACLU president says censoring speech on social media does “more harm than good”
Strossen suggests that providing more information and education is a better solution than censorship.
Pro-encryption fight hindered as US appeals court refuses to unseal papers
The sucessful argument that allowed Facebook to reject a wiretap remains unavailable to be used as prescedent.
US Army accused of breaching First Amendment by banning users on Twitch
Users were silenced for asking about war crimes.
It somehow took the George Floyd protests to get Big Tech to pull back on facial recognition tech
IBM, Amazon and Microsoft are rethinking whether they want to offer surveillance tech.
Civil liberties groups defend anonymous parody Twitter accounts against Devin Nunes lawsuit
The groups say the First Amendment protects the accounts.
Federal judge rules FBI can be asked whether it has records of social media surveillance
The FBI will have to go ahead and confirm or deny having records from social media surveillance.
The “anti-meme” law just got landslide approval from House of Representatives
Congress is coming for your memes.
Tech giants tried but failed to prevent California Consumer Privacy Act
Only five amendments went through and none of them managed to compromise its goal or introduce loopholes that could be exploited in a future by tech giants.
US files civil lawsuit against Edward Snowden and seeks all proceeds from his new book
The lawsuit was filed on the same day that Snowden’s book Permanent Record was released – a book which focuses on Snowden’s work for US spy agencies and why he decided to become a whistleblower.
Microsoft faces criticism for funding facial recognition surveillance company
The ACLU has announced its disappointment with Microsoft for failing to stick by the principles it said it would abide by.
Details of Justice Department efforts to break encryption of Facebook Messenger must be made public, EFF tells court
The EFF wants to know how the Justice Department think they would go about breaking into encryption.
The US Custom and Border Patrol announce a major data breach
The database contains thousands of images of those crossing the border.