For most of a half-decade, law enforcement officials and retail execs have been engaged in a “mass crime spree” duet. Despite this hysteria being debunked several times by rigorous reporting, cops and shops have been manipulating a non-existent shoplifting crime wave for their own benefit for nearly as long. EveryContinue Reading
It’s telling that the The Traitor Administration thinks it needs access to millions of taxpayer records to locate and capture “dangerous” immigrants. Most criminals don’t file taxes or hold down regular day jobs. On top of that, this undermines the constant claim made by awful people that immigrants are lazyContinue Reading
In an unforced error that will only burnish ICE’s reputation for being a brawn operation that’s talked itself into believing it’s a brains operation, ICE briefly let the American public know it was no longer willing to let illegal ideas to enter (or even exit) the United States. Immigration andContinue Reading
Israel-located NSO Group may no longer be a malware option for the US and other discerning governments around the world, thanks to blacklists, lawsuits, and its disturbing willingness to sell to some of the most abhorrent governments of earth. But the market for powerful phone exploits isn’t dying up. GovernmentsContinue Reading
A whole new level of constitutional wtf-ness has emerged from the Indiana state Appeals Court. Here’s how John Wesley Hall sums it up on FourthAmendment.com: If you’re riding a bus and drugs are found on one, are all subject to search. The answer can’t be yes, but it is here.Continue Reading
Clearview saw an opening in the facial recognition market and took full advantage of it. While most tech firms offered face-matching tech of dubious accuracy, Clearview went further, matching its AI to the billions of records it has harvested for free from the open internet. (And while this effort certainlyContinue Reading
Lots of lies are told about immigrants to stoke the always-smoldering fires of bigotry in this country. The Traitor and his fellow Republicans have told most of them. They claim immigrants commit more crimes than legal residents, something that has never been true. They claim immigrants are lazy, something anyoneContinue Reading
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) now exists in name only. Not only did The Traitor’s band of Musk-led pillagers dismantle the infrastructure side of the agency by disbanding the CISA group investigating a massive China-based hack of US phone systems, but the administration terminated ongoing election security andContinue Reading