NEW YORK—A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, . Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York partially rejected the defendants’ motion to…
Levittown: a six-part series from Bloomberg on deepfakes
Olivia Carville and Margi Murphy report: New Year’s Eve. Levittown, New York. Word travels swiftly as one young woman tells the next: “You’re on the website.” Dozens of recent high-school graduates are finding out that their photos have been scraped from their social media accounts, manipulated and posted to a porn website. Who would have…
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…
Article: Is Privacy Really a Civil Right?
Allen, Anita and Muhawe, Christopher, “Is Privacy Really a Civil Right?” (2025). Articles. 541. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_articles/541 https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38KK94D6R Abstract Sixty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Civil rights laws aimed at curbing discrimination and inequality in federal programs, public accommodations, housing, employment, education, voting and lending faced opposition before the Act and…