Cyrus Farivar reports: A top Homeland Security Investigations official has told a federal court that it remains the agency’s policy that officers can install a GPS tracking device on cars entering the United States “without a warrant or individualized suspicion” for up to 48 hours. There is no such time limit, HSI Assistant Director Matthew…
Category: Govt
FTC Announces Agenda for the Third Session of Its Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century
October 15-17 event at George Mason University will address multi-sided platform businesses, acquisitions of nascent competitors, and antitrust in labor markets The Federal Trade Commission announced the agenda for its Hearings initiative with three full-day sessions, co-sponsored with the Global Antitrust Institute and held at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University in…
Facebook Tells Cops Its ‘Real Name’ Policy Applies To Law Enforcement Too
Tim Cushing writes: Facebook’s real name policy forbids fake profiles. Needless to say, this rule is broken all the time. Fake profiles are created every day. When they’re discovered, they’re shut down. People like breaking rules and a handful of moderators per millions of users can’t really keep up. We expect this kind of juvenile…
Will NIH’s 1 million person DNA database of immigrant children, prisoners and adults be a law enforcement goldmine?
Joe Cadillic addresses head-on a concern I’ve had: If you thought sending your DNA to for-profit DNA companies was a bad idea, boy do I have bad news for you. The National Institute of Health (NIH) is building a 1 million person DNA database of immigrant children, prisoners and adults, claiming that it will help…