Records posted online by the DHS in response to one of our FOIA requests confirm that, as we suspected, DHS headquarters has been illegally blocking release of documents we have requested, and to which we are entitled, under the Freedom of Information Act, in order to subject them to higher-level political review and an illegal requirement for higher-level political approval…
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Government Withholds Records on Need for Expanded Surveillance Law
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against three agencies of the Department of Justice (DOJ) today, demanding records about problems or limitations that hamper electronic surveillance and potentially justify or undermine the Administration’s new calls for expanded surveillance powers. The issue has been in the headlines for more than a month, kicked off by…
UK: Over 100,000 stops-and-searches: zero terrorists
Jane Fae Ozimek reports: When it comes to wasting police time, the biggest offenders appear to be…the police. That, at least, appears to be the conclusion of the Home Office. Its official statistics, published today, show that while police stopped over 100,000 individuals last year to “prevent acts of terrorism”, there was not a single arrest for…
Article: The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech
Neil Richards has an article, “The Puzzle of Brandeis, Privacy, and Speech” in the Vanderbilt Law Review (2010). Here’s the abstract: Most courts and scholarship assume that privacy and free speech are always in conflict, even though each of these traditions can be traced back to writings by Louis D. Brandeis—his 1890 Harvard Law Review article The Right…