Brendan Farrington of AP reports: Florida will have one of the country’s most restrictive social media bans for minors — if it withstands expected legal challenges — under a bill signed by Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday. The bill will ban social media accounts for children under 14 and require parental permission for 14- and…
Author: Dissent
Justices were skeptical of abortion pills arguments. Anti-abortion groups have backup plans.
Alice Miranda Ollstein reports: Anti-abortion activists and elected officials have a backup plan should the Supreme Court reject their arguments for nationwide restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. In fact, they have several. The lawsuit that went before the high court Tuesday challenging federal regulation of abortion pills is just one piece of the movement’s…
Cops Running DNA-Manufactured Faces Through Face Recognition is Tornado of Bad Ideas
Paige Collings and matthew Guariglia write: In keeping with law enforcement’s grand tradition of taking antiquated, invasive, and oppressive technologies, making them digital, and then calling it innovation, police in the U.S. recently combined two existing dystopian technologies in a brand new way to violate civil liberties. A police force in California recently employed the new…
Maryland Privacy Bills Pass House and Senate
From the good folks at EPIC.org: The Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (SB 541/HB 567) has passed both the House and Senate. Next, each bill will face a vote in the opposite chamber before heading to conference committee to reconcile minor differences between versions. EPIC testified in support of the bills in both the Senate and the House earlier…