"“The fact that we’re even having this conversation is very disturbing,” said Geoffrey King, when I phoned him for a comment. King is a constitutional lawy…
Tool Without a Handle: “A Dust Cloud of Nonsense” On October 30, 1938, the “Mercury Theater on the Air” broadcast a radio drama adaptation of H.G. Wells’ scie…
"Most large and mid-size cities with some form of a body camera program haven't been forthcoming once their programs are underway, said Harlan Yu, a pr…
"If this most recent attack is also state-sponsored, says Albert Gidari, the director of Privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, "it&…
"There are some legal options available, University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron said. For instance, if a victim took a photo themselves, they…
Managing information is central to the criminal justice system, and so it’s inevitable that mistakes happen. Names get confused, files lost. When these errors o…
"“We minimized redactions to protect privacy interests, but the content of the NSLs remain as they were when served. We are also publishing the corresponde…
"“In our continued effort to increase transparency around government demands for user data, today we begin to make available to the public the National Sec…
It’s nearly impossible to know if you're having a truly private, unmonitored conversation today. Big data and online communications open the door for widesp…
The 2016 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize has been awarded to Laura K. Donohue for her book The Future of Foreign Intelligence: P…
"But there is no overarching US privacy law to protect consumers, with standards set individually by different states, industries and even companies, accor…
After another year of protests and unrest across the country, criminal justice reform remains a contentious issue. Some cities have experienced an increase in h…