Alfred Ng reports: Mere hours after supporters of former president Donald Trump forced their way into the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, sleuths, both amateur and professional, took up the task of combing through the voluminous videos and photos on social media to identify rioters. Facial recognition technology—long reviled by police reform advocates as inaccurate…
Category: U.S.
Immigration lawyer sues over seizure of his cellphone at airport
Debra Cassens Weiss reports: Texas immigration lawyer Adam A. Malik has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for seizing and retaining his iPhone when he returned to the United States from a trip to Costa Rica. Malik’s Jan. 25 lawsuit says the government seized his phone and searched the contents absent reasonable suspicion that it contained…
First appellate-court ruling on COVID-19 travel restrictions
From Papers, Please!: Last week, the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston issued the first ruling by a Federal Federal appellate court concerning restrictions on the right to travel imposed on the basis of the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been other Federal District Court rulings on COVID-19 travel restrictions, as we have reported previously. But so far…
CPRA countdown: Changes to the definition of “personal information”
James Denvil and Arielle Brown of Hogan Lovell write: Get ready for the changing scope of “personal information.” The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) amends the definition of “personal information” set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) by introducing a new category of “sensitive personal information” and expanding the carve out for publicly…