Francisco Vara-Orta reports that the Northside Independent School District student who has refused to wear an RFID chipped ID tag on religious grounds has lost her lawsuit, and the district can transfer her to another school in the district that does not use RFID-chipped tags if she continues to refuse to wear one. Andrea Hernandez…
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Law enforcement fears drone legislation could set “troublesome precedent”
Yes, I know it’s important to consider the source and any biases, but I reacted when I read a story on New American by Joe Wolverton II: Wolverton writes that North Dakota State Representative Rick Becker (R-Bismarck), a first-term legislator, is proposing a state law that would limit the use of drones by law enforcement. Here’s…
Oliver Stone to RT: ‘US has become an Orwellian state’
I don’t subscribe to Showtime, so I missed the first episodes of director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick’s series, “The Untold History of the United States,” but it looks like you can view some of the full episodes online, free. Reader and link contributor extraordinaire Joe Cadillic sends in this link to an interview…
Google’s Privacy Policy Integration Initially Defeats Legal Challenge
Venkat Balasubramani and Eric Goldman offer some analysis and comments on a lawsuit that challenged Google’s consolidation of dozens of privacy policies into one policy: The court does not get to the merits, and instead rebuffs plaintiffs on the basis that they do not satisfy the requisite (Article III) standards for standing. The first argument for…