From Nixon to Biden: How the US Turned Banks into Spy Networks
By: Mike Maharrey “Americans do not have financial privacy, really at all. We have this illusion of financial privacy.” Cato policy analyst Nicholas Anthony summed it up bluntly in an ...
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Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms
By: John Whitehead The spirit of the Constitution, drafted by men who chafed against the heavy-handed tyranny of an imperial ruler, would suggest that one’s home is a fortress, ...
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Patriot Act at 22: We can only be Truly Safe when We’re Free
By: Michael Boldin 22 years ago – on Oct 26, 2001 – the Patriot Act was signed into law. As John Whitehead wrote, “we’re still grappling with the blowback that arises from ...
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Neither Liberty Nor Safety
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Benjamin Franklin’s famous one-liner about the relationship between liberty and safety has intrigued me since I first read it in high school. Why would anyone sacrifice personal ...
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Has Liberty Died in Our Hearts?
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Late last week, a judge on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court revealed that he had had enough of the FBI and Congress trashing the Constitution. The normally ...
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Clearview Facial Recognition: A Perpetual Police Lineup
By: Mike Maharrey Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That admitted that the company scraped 30 billion photos from Facebook and other social media platforms and used them in its massive facial recognition database ...
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Geofence Surveillance: First, They Spied on Protesters. Then Churches. You’re Next
By: John Whitehead If you give the government an inch, it will always take a mile. This is how the slippery slope to all-out persecution starts. This particular slippery slope has ...
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Spying In Plain Sight
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Last week, the Biden administration asked Congress to permit its agents to continue to spy on Americans without search warrants. The actual request was to re-authorize Section ...
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The FBI and Personal Liberty
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Among the lesser-known holes in the Constitution cut by the Patriot Act of 2001 was the destruction of the “wall” between federal law enforcement and federal spies. ...
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New Jersey Woman Reveals Dangers of Growing Use of Facial Recognition
By: Mike Maharrey When we warn about the growing pervasiveness of facial recognition systems, people often shrug and say, “it’s no big deal if you have nothing to hide.” The experience ...
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