Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy report: New Year’s Eve. Levittown, New York. Word travels swiftly as one young woman tells the next: “You’re on the website.” Dozens of recent high-school graduates are finding out that their photos have been scraped from their social media accounts, manipulated and posted to a porn website. Who would have…
ACLU urges 2nd Circuit to rethink no-warrant cellphone searches at US border
Erik Uebelacker reports: A Fourth Amendment carveout that gives U.S. Border Patrol agents the right to conduct warrantless searches shouldn’t apply to cellphones and laptops, the American Civil Liberties Union argued to a Second Circuit panel on Monday. The “border search exception” allows federal officers to search people and items entering the United States, without…
Article: Is Privacy Really a Civil Right?
Allen, Anita and Muhawe, Christopher, “Is Privacy Really a Civil Right?” (2025). Articles. 541. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_articles/541 https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38KK94D6R Abstract Sixty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Civil rights laws aimed at curbing discrimination and inequality in federal programs, public accommodations, housing, employment, education, voting and lending faced opposition before the Act and…
The Ethics Crunch: Confronting Bias and Privacy in Data Science
Somatirha writes: In the age of artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, the ethical challenges of bias and privacy have never been more urgent. As AI-based decisions increasingly determine our daily lives, from employment to medical diagnostics, fears of algorithmic discrimination and individual data protection are escalating. Governments, businesses, and advocacy organisations across the globe…