Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, Jody Kahn Mason, Jason Selvey, and Maya Atrakchi of Jackson Lewis write: The Baltimore City Council recently passed an ordinance, in a vote of 13-2, barring the use of facial recognition technology by city residents, businesses, and most of the city government (excluding the city police department) until December…
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DOJ Asks DC Court To Compel Decryption Of Device Seized In A Capitol Raid Case
Tim Cushing writes: The DOJ is testing some waters it may not want to be troubling, not with hundreds of prosecutions stemming from the January 6 Capitol raid on the docket. It has asked the DC court to compel a defendant to decrypt his laptop so the FBI can search it for evidence. (h/t Marcy Wheeler) The government is seeking…
Case Summary: Fourth Circuit Upholds Terrorism Watchlist Database
Eric Halliday and Rachael Hanna report: On March 30, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in El-Hady v. Kable upheld the constitutionality of the Terrorism Screening Database (TSDB), a watchlist maintained by the FBI that currently contains the names of more than 1 million “known or suspected terrorists.” Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson…
NSA Agrees to Release Records on FBI’s Improper Spying on 16,000 Americans
Zachary Stieber reports: The National Security Agency (NSA) has agreed to release records on the FBI’s improper spying on thousands of Americans, the secretive agency disclosed in a recent letter. The agreement may signal a rift between the NSA and the FBI, according to attorney Ty Clevenger. Clevenger last year filed a Freedom of Information Act…