Alexandra Ulmer, Marisa Taylor, Jeffrey Dastin and Alexandra Alper of Reuters report: Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk’s DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of…
Category: Surveillance
UK’s attempt to keep details of Apple ‘backdoor’ case secret… denied
Connor Jones reports: Details of Apple’s appeal against the UK’s so-called “backdoor order” will now play out in public after the Home Office failed in its bid to keep them secret on national security grounds. The confirmation comes after the Investigatory Powers Tribunal held a closed-door hearing on March 14, which was presumed to be…
Canada warns travelers of US border agents’ authority to search electronic devices
In response to the U.S.’s hostile pronouncements about Canada becoming the 51st state and in response to tariffs and the way the U.S. is treating its long-time friend and ally Canada so horribly, a lot of Canadians are reportedly opting not to buy American, not to vacation in America, and to sell their second homes…
ACLU urges 2nd Circuit to rethink no-warrant cellphone searches at US border
Erik Uebelacker reports: A Fourth Amendment carveout that gives U.S. Border Patrol agents the right to conduct warrantless searches shouldn’t apply to cellphones and laptops, the American Civil Liberties Union argued to a Second Circuit panel on Monday. The “border search exception” allows federal officers to search people and items entering the United States, without…