The US government’s list of “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional due process rights of the million-plus people on it, a judge has ruled, but the government insists the case doesn’t belong in court at all. The watchlist, with no “ascertainable standard for inclusion and exclusion” – one need not have been convicted or …
Image caption The South Wales force demonstrated the technology after the case with a member of staff standing in Judges have ruled against a shopper who brought a legal challenge against police use of automated facial recognition (AFR) technology. The court refused the judicial review on all grounds, finding South Wales Police had followed the …
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In a forthcoming book this spring, the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson has advanced a critique of “private government,” the concept used to express the power wielded by large corporations in the labor market. For many workers, the force that most actively restricts their liberty is not government regulations but their employer’s rules; even gig economy laborers …
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A case in New York has ruled that buying social media followers and likes is illegal, in what could be a landmark precedent. Source link
