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…
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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…
Facial Recognition Failures Are Locking People Out of Unemployment Systems
Todd Feathers reports: People around the country are furious after being denied their unemployment benefits due to apparent problems with facial recognition technology that claims to prevent fraud. Unemployment recipients have been complaining for months about the identity verification service ID.me, which uses a combination of biometric information and official documents to confirm that applicants are who they claim to…