British Journalist Jailed Without Trial for Covering Child Sex Trafficking Trial
"The judge admitted that whether one is allowed to film certain court procedures comes down to where a comma is placed in the law."
"The judge admitted that whether one is allowed to film certain court procedures comes down to where a comma is placed in the law."
"Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president."
"Of course, the policing agencies might just ignore the ruling, and keep violating rights at checkpoints and searching electronics at the border."
"How free are you really, when all that’s required for the state to take your children away from you is a judge with an ax to grind?"
"The Defense Department is funding a project that officials say could revolutionize the way companies, federal agencies and the military itself verify that people are who they say they are and it could be available in most commercial smartphones within two years."
"They didn’t find a crime, but they did find a picture of Charles with marijuana from over a year prior. Based on that picture, his visa was revoked."
"We all went to law school because we don't know science, we don't know math. And if somebody comes in in a white lab coat...that's good enough for government work."
"Not only do they attach strings to project funding such as this camera requirement in Richmond, they also finance many state and local surveillance programs outright."
"Last fall Amazon added capabilities that allow it to identify people in videos and follow their movements almost instantly."
"A private conversation was recorded by Amazon's Alexa -- the voice-controlled smart speaker -- and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list."