Mike Davis, a Republican lawyer who has been mentioned as someone who might like to be under consideration as Attorney General under Trump’s next administration, has named one of their first targets: New York Attorney General Letitia James. James prosecuted Trump on state charges and has already indicated she will not back off and is…
Author: Dissent
Verizon, AT&T tell courts: FCC can’t punish us for selling user location data
Jon Brodkin reports: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile are continuing their fight against fines for selling user location data, with two of the big three carriers submitting new court briefs arguing that the Federal Communications Commission can’t punish them. A Verizon brief filed on November 4 and an AT&T brief on November 1 contest the legal basis for the FCC fines…
Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
Joseph Cox reports: Law enforcement officers are warning other officials and forensic experts that iPhones which have been stored securely for forensic examination are somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock, according to a law enforcement document obtained by 404 Media. The exact reason for the…
Americans stockpile abortion pills and hormones ahead of ‘reproductive apocalypse’ under Trump
Emily Shugarman reports: When the presidential election results were handed down on Wednesday, Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of Aid Access, the No 1 supplier of abortion pills by mail in the United States, was huddled in a Paris apartment with her team of eight American physicians and 15 support staff. The group – which usually…