The following press release from AG Harris’s office was issued on Dec. 9: LOS ANGELES – Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced the proposed regulations for the collection of stop data that law enforcement agencies must report under California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015, Assembly Bill (AB) 953. The proposed regulations are available…
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Watch this video on the safety, cyber-security, and privacy of self-driving (and partially self-driving) vehicles
via Public Citizen: Click here or on the embedded video below to watch Prof. Christopher Yoo and federal transportation policy journalist Stephanie Beasley discuss the safety, cyber-security, and privacy of self-driving and other automated vehicles.
UK: Judge asked to extend ban on naming sadistic Edlington brothers to protect their human rights
This is not the first time I’ve covered an anonymity request like this, but I still find the situation disturbing on a number of levels. The Wakefield Express reports: A judge is being asked to give indefinite anonymity to two Yorkshire brothers who tortured two young boys in a bout of “prolonged, sadistic violence” when…
Mug Shots Are Not Secret Records, Detroit Paper Tells Supreme Court
Marcia Coyle reports: The Detroit Free Press is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a court decision that restricts public access to the mug shots of federal criminal defendants. Booking photos provide an “important window” into the government’s exercise of its police powers, the media outlet said in its petition in Detroit Free Press v. U.S. Department…