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Armageddon Prose
WATCH: Larry Fink Demands Access to Americans’ Savings, Pension Funds to Bankroll AI
Current Sith overlord and aspirational emperor of the galaxy, just a few false flags and manufactured crises away from assuming the throne, Larry Fink, recently appeared at something billed as “National Skilled Trades Day,” hosted by Texas State Technical College in Waco to recruit the electricians he needs to complete the destruction of his AI Death St…
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9 days ago · 31 likes · 12 comments · Benjamin Bartee

BlackRock pledges $30M to train thousands of Texas electricians as data centers boom

https://archive.ph/Osdg0

Enormous data pipelines powering major generative AI systems are rooted in mass invasions of privacy by design

Unlawful by Design: Exposing the Human Rights Costs of Generative AI documents serious risks in the large-scale data scraping and processing being used to build and train these systems, including violations of the right to privacy by design and adverse consequences for the environment and historically marginalized communities. “Companies across the world are supplying generative AI products under the veneer of efficiency and sophistication, but in reality, these systems perpetuate mass invasions of privacy through unlawful web scraping: an automated process for extracting data from websites, including personal data, such as images and social media activity, to train AI models,” said Likhita Banerji, Head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab, Amnesty International. “The extractive data pipeline, inherent design choices made by tech companies and exploitative supply chains, to build generative AI systems have enabled a paradigm of technology development that opens up a risk of mass abuse of human rights.” Amnesty International researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/05/global-enormous-data-pipelines-powering-major-generative-ai-systems-are-rooted-in-mass-invasions-of-privacy-by-design/


The richest guy on the planet, Elon Musk is about to rob your 401K

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2676979515/

Trump Bought Lots Of Dell Stock — Then The Pentagon Gave Dell A $9.7 Billion Contract

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/michael-dell-trump-accounts-dod.html

Trump’s Ambassador To Italy Is Buying Las Vegas Icon Caesars For An Eye-Popping Sum

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/caesars-las-vegas-sold-fertitta-6-billion-rcna347329

The Drey Dossier
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11 days ago · 4216 likes · 477 comments · The Drey Dossier

Judge says Trump can’t add his name to Kennedy Center and blocks planned closure
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/29/politics/judge-trump-cant-add-name-to-kennedy-center-or-close

Department of Labor Tells Employees to Report Anyone Prioritizing DEI
https://archive.ph/fIY44

Republican Lt. Governor Gives Hoosiers ‘Permission To Hate’ Islam

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/indiana-lt-gov-micah-beckwith-giving-hoosiers-permission-hate-islam


Colorado GOP governor candidate Viktor Marx refuses to say how many people he’s killed

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-2676976985/

How Trump’s Supreme Court is reshaping midterm elections

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-supreme-court-is-reshaping-us-midterm-elections-2026-05-31/

Trump-appointed judge allows White House to implement mail-in executive order

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-allows-trump-implement-mail-in-voting-executive-order-2026-05-28/

Ken Paxton Dubbed ‘Most Corrupt Politician in America’—Wins Texas Senate Primary

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ken-paxton-texas-primary

Arrest Warrant Issued for Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (Republican)

How long before Trump pardon’s him?

https://www.wlky.com/article/new-arrest-warrant-issued-matt-bevin-contempt-court/71446616

Court Blocks Alabama Voting Map That Would Help Republicans In Midterms

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/federal-court-blocks-alabama-using-gop-drawn-congressional-map-rcna346917

Republican lawmakers pass a congressional map to dismantle a majority-Black district in Louisiana

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/29/nx-s1-5826956/louisiana-new-congressional-map-redistricting

Trump’s redistricting push suffers setback in South Carolina

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trumps-redistricting-push-suffers-setbacks-alabama-south-carolina-2026-05-26/

Missouri Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to New Congressional Map That Boosts Republicans

https://www.ntd.com/missouri-supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-new-congressional-map-that-boosts-republicans_1148552.html

CA governor signs bill restricting law enforcement access to ballots

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/newsom-california-ballots-law-enforcement-restrictions-law/#site-header45

Delaware Judge Lets Corporations Vote in Local Elections

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/

MANDATORY Govt Speed Limiters are in VA, WA and NY Vehicles

MD and IL are considering it.

https://landline.media/super-speeders-could-soon-lose-control-to-new-safety-tech/

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a71420851/new-york-governor-speed-limiting-devices/

https://archive.ph/K374A

CBS fires ‘60 Minutes’ reporter who refused to sanitize deportation story

https://www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-veteran-sharyn-alfonsi-dares-maga-curious-boss-to-fire-her/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/60-minutes-correspondent-sharyn-alfonsi-exit-cbs-news-1236457180/

MAGA PROPAGANDA: University of Iowa students must take Intellectual Freedom classes whether they want to or not

https://www.kcrg.com/2026/05/20/iowa-lawmakers-move-mandate-students-take-center-intellectual-freedom-classes-amid-low-enrollment/

Miller-Meeks urges naming new University of Iowa center ‘Charlie Kirk Center for Intellectual Freedom’

https://www.thegazette.com/news/education/miller-meeks-urges-naming-new-university-of-iowa-center-charlie-kirk-center-for-intellectual-freedom/article_de2c52d3-e18c-5fd9-8f6c-bdd62047a484.html

An Ohio pastor-turned-lawmaker backs a Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act for schools

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5798726/christian-conservative-church-state-charlie-kirk

Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/hackers-are-trying-to-steal-signal-users-backups-in-new-wave-of-phishing-attacks/

Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, researchers can effectively “see” and recognize individuals — even if they are not carrying a device and even if their phone is turned off.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/

Anthropic Is Now Worth More Than OpenAI

https://gizmodo.com/anthropic-is-now-worth-more-than-openai-2000765392

Debt Collectors Are Being Replaced With AI Agents

https://archive.ph/sC9xM

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/millions-of-ai-agents-imperiled-by-critical-vulnerability-in-open-source-package/

Senator Markey Raises Alarm Over TikTok and Oracle’s Handling of Americans Personal Data

https://www.reuters.com/world/democratic-senator-wants-tiktok-us-jv-oracle-answer-questions-platform-2026-05-29/

More Than $100M Was Billed for Medically Questionable Vascular Procedures

https://www.propublica.org/article/vascular-procedures-medicare-inspector-general-report

US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/us-healthcare-still-stupidly-expensive-with-pathetic-outcomes-study-finds/

Google Is in Full-On Damage Control Over Its New Health App

https://gizmodo.com/google-is-in-full-on-damage-control-over-its-new-health-app-2000764027

100 million people could qualify for a piece of Google’s $135M settlement. Here’s what to know

https://time.com/article/2026/05/27/google-android-settlement-payment/

State & Local Privacy News

Age Verification is a Privacy Nightmare

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/age-verification-privacy-nightmare

Teen social media bans spread despite limited evidence

https://www.courthousenews.com/teen-social-media-bans-spread-despite-limited-evidence/

VT- Lawmakers’ last minute scramble for a facility for those incompetent to stand trial

https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/26/lawmakers-last-minute-scramble-for-a-facility-for-those-incompetent-to-stand-trial/

ME- Secretary of State stands by refusal to provide ICE covert plates

https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/05/26/as-dojs-threat-to-sue-lingers-maine-stands-by-refusal-to-provide-ice-covert-plates/

ME- As Flock cameras spread across, safety advocates question roadside poles

https://wgme.com/news/i-team/as-flock-cameras-spread-across-maine-safety-advocates-question-some-roadside-poles

ME- Democrat calls Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo ‘disqualifying’
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5894805-jake-auchincloss-graham-platner-senate-race-tattoo-criticism/

NH- Data Center Paused Amid Uproar in Nottingham

https://indepthnh.org/2026/05/27/ai-data-center-paused-amid-uproar-in-nottingham/

MA- Governor Healey denies DOJ demand to allow ICE to obtain undercover license plates

https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/05/27/healey-denies-doj-demand-to-allow-ice-to-obtain-undercover-license-plates/

MA- Secretary of state Bill Galvin faces no opponent in his bid for record-extending ninth term

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/a-cakewalk-for-bill-galvin/

MA- Boston police overtime topped $100M for second straight year

It’s only going to get higher with the World Cup

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/29/boston-police-overtime-spending-100-million-bpd-budget

MA- Cambridge police support ShotSpotter after city council votes to end gunfire detection

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-05-27/police-support-shotspotter-after-cambridge-city-council-votes-to-end-gunfire-detection

MA- Rochester Police Chief unloads on Facebook critics: ‘Not here to win popularity contests’

https://archive.ph/3f7nN

MA- CPCS runs out of money for clinicians and other professionals

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/state-public-defender-system-runs-out-money-clinicians-and-other

MA- Bill would require some college education for cops

https://archive.ph/aT8Wy

MA- Motorola Solutions opens new AI and resilience software hub in Boston

https://www.motorolasolutions.com/newsroom/press-releases/new-ai-and-resilience-software-hub-in-boston.html

MA- AG Sues UnitedHealthcare Over Alleged $100M Fraud

https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-campbell-sues-united-healthcare-for-defrauding-masshealth-out-of-100-million

CT- Fairfield police fined residents $3.2M using speed cameras

https://www.ctpost.com/fairfield/article/fairfield-ct-speed-camera-paris-hwang-22280282.php

CT- State lawmakers ask Home Depot and Lowe’s about Flock Safety cameras

https://archive.ph/wkNvE

CT- Governor Signs Law Banning Sale Of Location Data

https://fpf.org/blog/third-times-the-charm-connecticut-enacts-annual-privacy-update/

NY- Flock cameras divide New York city over safety vs. privacy

https://www.newsnationnow.com/vargasreports/flock-cameras-divide-new-york-city-safety-privacy/

NY- Troy police and politicians use vandalism to justify Flock Safety cameras

https://www.saratogian.com/2026/05/22/dewolf-donnelly-comment-on-proposed-flock-alpr-legislation/

NY- Troy mayor (daughter of a cop) issues emergency order to keep Flock Safety camera program active

https://www.troyny.gov/m/newsflash/home/detail/367

PA- Erie County Signs Biometric Transparency and Privacy Act Into Law

https://www3.erie.gov/consumerprotection/biometrics-transparency-and-privacy-act

OH- City of Dayton covers all Flock cameras amid program suspension

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/city-covers-all-flock-cameras-amid-program-suspension/article_01aa7687-f68e-5443-b102-d98dd38ed9b6.html

IL- City of North Branch OK’s Flock Safety purchase

https://chisagocountypress.com/news/2026/may/22/north-branch-okays-flock-license-plate-readers-on-split-vote/

IL- Peoria Park District claims Flock Safety camera will lower crime

https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/peoria-park-district-crime-prevention/

MN- Isanti County Sheriff claims Flock Safety data search is nothing to worry about

https://www.isanti-chisagocountystar.com/news/flock-camera-data-search-process-explained/article_df195cc3-baf7-4096-8b5b-118a591dcce2.html

MO- St. Charles County extends Flock Safety contract

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/news/2026/05/27/st-charles-county-passes-fifa-support-lpr-extension-bills

https://www.sccmo.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/12968?fileID=38377

WI- Milwaukee Police forced to update use of Flock license plate reader system after officer misconduct

https://www.wpr.org/news/milwaukee-police-flock-license-plate-reader-system-officer-misconduct

WI- Second Milwaukee Police Employee Probed Over Flock Camera Misuse

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/05/28/second-milwaukee-police-employee-probed-over-flock-camera-misuse/

WI- City of Fitchburg forced to drop Flock Safety contract over national privacy concerns

https://www.fitchburgstar.com/news/government/fitchburg-drops-flock-cameras-as-residents-raise-concern/article_b7c36a88-1044-47ed-918f-b9af7005a725.html

ID- Blaine County law enforcement agencies claim to be open to external Flock Safety audit

https://www.mtexpress.com/news/blaine_county/police-departments-plan-external-license-plate-reader-audits/article_61da6c46-c6ec-4793-aea4-49b6cef5841a.html

TX- Bandera City Council member Flowers defends Flock Safety, claims it was satire after backlash

https://www.banderabulletin.com/article/3123,flowers-defends-flock-cameras-says-statement-was-satire

TX- Houston residents clash with commissioners over Flock surveillance: ‘Inherently fascist’

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/harris-county-flock-renewal-dispute-22281386.php

TX- 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Allows Government To Enforce Law Restricting App Downloads

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/28/texas-apple-google-app-store-age-verification/

CO- As Flock Safety camera use surges, legislators grapple with law enforcement, privacy implications

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/22/as-street-camera-use-surges-colorado-legislators-grapple-with-law-enforcement-privacy-implications/

AZ- Chandler city council delays vote on Flock license plate cameras until July

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/22/chandler-delays-vote-flock-license-plate-cameras-until-july/

CA- City of Monterey bill would restrict Flock Safety license plate reader uses

https://www.kazu.org/kazu-news/2026-05-22/monterey-tax-measure-on-ballot-state-bill-would-restrict-license-plate-reader-uses

CA- Pasadena Residents Push to End Flock License Plate Reader Program

https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/pasadena-residents-push-to-end-flock-license-plate-reader-program/

CA- Republican’s take step toward banning social media for kids under 16

https://www.courthousenews.com/california-takes-step-toward-banning-social-media-for-kids-under-16/

WA- Edmonds becomes 3rd city in the county to cancel Flock Safety contract

https://www.heraldnet.com/2026/05/27/edmonds-becomes-3rd-city-in-the-county-to-cancel-flock-safety-contract/

OR- Albany City Council to decide whether to turn the city’s Flock cameras back on

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/26/albany-oregon-flock-cameras-police-surveillances/

World Privacy News

Paris orders criminal probe into Israeli torture, rape of Gaza flotilla activists

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/37954

Israeli PM Netanyahu Says He Ordered Military to Seize 70% of Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/netanyahu-orders-israeli-army-seize-70-gaza-strip-violating-ceasefire-deal

BIG BROTHER WARNING: Chinese government to give every humanoid robot a digital ID

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3354747/china-give-every-humanoid-robot-digital-id-push-boost-industry-standards

Chinese police love facial recognition smart glasses

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202605/26/WS6a14fe32a310d6866eb4ab8a.html

MotionAnalytics Unveils “Large Biomechanical Model” (Uses a person’s gait, to ID people)


https://www.motionanalytics.io/


EU’s intelligence hub (INTCEN) eyes bigger role in security overhaul

https://www.politico.eu/article/eus-intelligence-hub-eyes-bigger-role-in-security-overhaul/

MEPs accuse EU of copy-pasting Microsoft lobbying into data center law

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/27/meps-accuse-eu-of-copy-pasting-microsoft-lobbying-into-data-centre-law

EU to fine Google for breaching laws related to the European Digital Markets Act

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-plans-fine-google-high-triple-digit-million-euro-sum-handelsblatt-reports-2026-05-25/

Meta tool to track employee mouse clicks on collision course with EU privacy rules

https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-tool-track-employee-mouse-clicks-collision-course-with-eu-privacy-rules-2026-05-29/

Russia- Putin would force bank employees to shoot down Ukrainian drones

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/27/russia-to-task-bankers-with-shooting-down-ukrainian-drones

Russia- Government’s unencrypted super-app being forced on citizens has 120M users

“Max has been pre-installed on phones and tablets sold in Russia since September.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/24/world/politics/russia-max-unencrypted-app-citizens/

Sweden- Government approves police real-time facial recognition

https://www.dataguidance.com/news/sweden-riksdag-approves-police-use-ai-real-time-facial

Austria- Signicat adds 5M ID Austria users to its database

https://www.signicat.com/press-releases/signicat-incorporates-id-austria-into-its-eid-and-wallet-hub-unlocking-secure-onboarding-for-4-8-million-austrians

UK- Government’s Facial Recognition Boom Runs on Police Policy, Not Statute

https://www.techpolicy.press/britains-facial-recognition-boom-runs-on-police-policy-not-statute/

UK- Government’s Visa Portal spilled thousands of applicants’ passports and selfies online

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/uk-visa-portal-spilled-thousands-of-applicants-passports-and-selfies-online-and-hasnt-fixed-the-leak/

UK- Government to use Congitec facial recognition for asylum seekers

https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/ef4b35f6-c1e6-4be6-8c1c-b6c7dc1b142e

IRL- Government installs 25 new facial recognition eGates at Dublin Airport

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-justice-home-affairs-and-migration/press-releases/minister-jim-ocallaghan-and-minister-colm-brophy-launch-upgraded-egates-facilities-at-dublin-airport/

Ghana- Government wants 3.1M children aged 6-14 to register for national digital ID program

https://nia.gov.gh/public-announcement-temporary-recruitment/

]]><![CDATA[U.S. News/Police Violence]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-017https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-017Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:02:07 GMTDHS put comedian Ben Palmer on a “Be On The Lookout For” (BOLO) Nationwide

The Department of Homeland Security has circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to law enforcement nationwide, targeting a comedian whose satire of US immigration enforcement went viral. The subject of the alert, known as a BOLO, was Ben Palmer, a Nashville-based stand-up comedian and prankster who created a parody anti-immigration tip website. His revealing videos of calls with members of the public who thought they were reporting immigrants to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have garnered millions of views on TikTok and YouTube.

https://archive.ph/qnj1X

https://www.injusticewatch.org/civil-courts/immigration/2026/dhs-alert-comedian-ben-palmer/

Trump calls himself the ‘GOAT’ in USA 250th birthday celebrations rant

“The man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP...”

https://variety.com/2026/music/news/trump-slams-third-rate-artists-dropping-out-freedom-250-1236763119/


Trump calls for replacing US 250th concerts with MAGA rally

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/31/nx-s1-5841889/trump-america-250-state-fair-artists-rally

Trump’s Approval Rating Drops To All-Time Low Of -24

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker

Trump threatens to Bomb U.S. ally Oman

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/trump-oman-hormuz-strait-iran-00938713

US Has Not Identified A Single Confirmed Mine In Strait Of Hormuz

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/us-not-confirmed-iran-placed-mines-strait-hormuz-sources-say-rcna346955

Jeff-alytics
2026 Will Likely Have The Lowest US Murder Rate Ever Recorded
Yes, it’s late May and there are still more than seven full months remaining in 2026, but there has been enough data collected on this year to say that this year will likely set a new record for lowest murder rate ever recorded by the FBI when their Crime in the Nation report comes out sometime next summer or fall…
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13 days ago · 26 likes · 6 comments · Jeff Asher

Baltimore records lowest homicide rate in nearly 50 years

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/2025-crime-data-baltimore-lowest-homicide-rate-decades/69898283

Violent Crime In The US Is At Record Lows, But Trump’s DOJ Is Eliminating The Funding That Helped Reduce Crime

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/28/violent-crime-in-the-us-is-at-record-lows-but-the-doj-is-eliminating-the-funding-that-helped-reduce-crime/

Trump Administration deports thousands of Cuban immigrants to Mexico

The 66-page report, “‘Casting Us Aside to Die:’ Cuban and Other Third-Country Nationals Deported from the US to Mexico,” documents US government abuses against Cubans and other third-country nationals deported to Mexico between January 2025 and March 2026.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/27/cubans-many-in-the-us-for-decades-deported-to-mexico

The Pretext Behind the Trump Administration Labeling Cuba a State Sponsor of Terrorism

https://www.justsecurity.org/140246/trump-administration-cuba-terrorism/


US ‘prepares for 48-hour Cuban ground invasion’

https://www.aol.com/entertainment/us-prepares-48-hour-cuban-112700148.html

Pentagon puts building blocks in place for Cuba invasion

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/cuba-us-military-attack-00938740

More than 10,000 lawyers have left the Trump administration since late 2024

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/more-10-000-lawyers-left-155626383.html

Trump Says Its “Very Good”

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5903296-lawyers-leaving-trump-administration/

Trump Administration Proposes NDAs For All Federal Workers

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-proposes-non-disclosure-agreements-us-federal-workers-2026-05-26/

All government employees forced to download new White House ‘Trump worship’ app

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-forces-white-house-app-143349046.html

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/05/white-house-ordering-agencies-place-its-new-app-all-employees-government-phones/413741

DEFIANCE.News
Trump brings “catch and kill” into the federal government.
Donald Trump wants to treat all federal employees like he’s treated his victims: putting them under a gag order for the rest of their lives. And it’s creepier than you think…
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11 days ago · 643 likes · 38 comments · Miles Taylor

Trump’s Truth Social forces new users to follow Tommy Robinson

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/05/29/trump-puts-tommy-robinson-top-truth-social-accounts/

Trump’s Board of Peace Has No Money

https://archive.is/PXBDp

U.S. Treasury Wants to Create A $250 Trump Bill

https://archive.ph/E93t3

https://www.courthousenews.com/white-house-punts-to-congress-on-trump-250-bill-plan/

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s Son Has Been Secretly Working for Trump’s Treasury Department

https://www.notus.org/us-news/samuel-philip-alito-trump-treasury-department

American Oversight Warns Trump’s DOJ: Erasing January 6 Insurrectionist Records Would Violate Federal Law
https://americanoversight.org/doj-fra-jan6-warning-letter/

Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5834992/trump-deletes-jan-6-info

The DOJ’s Flimsy Legal Theories To Support Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
“In reality, this is a massive taxpayer-funded slush fund that Trump will be able to distribute to his friends and allies—including those who rioted at the U.S. Capitol in January 2021,” wrote Reason’s Eric Boehm. “The Anti-Weaponization Fund is merely the most blatant example (so far) of Trump’s corruption.”

https://reason.com/2026/05/26/the-dojs-flimsy-legal-theories-to-support-trumps-anti-weaponization-fund/

‘By This Logic, Any Protest Could Be a Conspiracy’: Conviction of Spokane ICE Protesters Raises Free Speech Concerns

https://www.commondreams.org/news/spokane-3-convicted-conspiracy

ICE accepting bids from Ad Tech/databroker companies to spy on every American

Immigration and Customs Enforcement published a request for information in January seeking input on how “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech providers can directly support investigations. “It’s very shocking to see it in black and white that the government is trying to use the digital advertising ecosystem to find and target immigrants,” said O’Kelley, who is the CEO of AI-advertising firm Scope3 and helped develop the online advertising exchange that the industry relies on. “It makes me very, very nervous about how people’s day-to-day use of the internet or their interactions with social media turn into being targeted. That’s terrifying.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/30/ice-immigration-privacy-data-advertising-00939078

Trump DOJ sues four states for denying ICE undercover license plates (ME, MA, OR and WA)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-sues-four-states-denying-ice-undercover-license-plates-2026-05-28/

DHS chief Markwayne Mullin desperately trying to get wife hired

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noems-dhs-replacement-markwayne-mullin-tries-to-get-wife-cushty-government-job/

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Meet the New ICE Queen. Same as the Old ICE Queen.
The missiles keep flying in and around Iran: Central Command said it had carried out another round of “defensive” strikes on Iranian drones and launchers overnight, while Iran sent more attack drones into the Strait of Hormuz and launched a missile at a U.S. base in Kuwait. The missile was intercepted, but remains an inauspicious sign for the supposed c…
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Republicans Shrug at Trump’s Outrageous Corruption

https://reason.com/2026/05/29/republicans-shrug-at-trumps-outrageous-corruption/

DHS to consider banning international flights to sanctuary cities

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/dhs-secretary-says-hes-drawing-up-plans-to-halt-international-flights-to-cities-that-dont-cooperate-with-ice/

DHS draws up plans to halt immigration, customs processing at ‘sanctuary city’ airports

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-drawing-up-plans-halt-immigration-customs-processing-sanctuary-city-airports-2026-05-27/

Judge tosses Trump administration’s lawsuit over Boston’s sanctuary city policy

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-05-28/federal-judge-tosses-trump-administrations-lawsuit-over-bostons-sanctuary-city-policy

Trump wants to bring 10,000 more white South Africans to the US

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/trump-raises-refugee-ceiling-by-10000-bring-more-white-south-africans-white-2026-05-26

Biased Supreme Court sides with Trump in Fight tied to Speech Curbs on Immigration Judges

https://www.reuters.com/world/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-fight-tied-speech-curbs-immigration-judges-2026-05-26/

Data Center Activists Considered “Anti-Tech Violent Extremist’s” by law enforcement

In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists. Among the documents in the tranche obtained by WIRED is a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that warns of widespread upheaval in response to AI adoption. Of particular note is a novel term for what the bureau purports to be an emerging extremism threat. “The chaotic atmosphere that may result from emergent AI technology in the next five years may fuel large-scale protests that devolve into civil unrest and anti-tech violent extremist activity, especially in large urban areas such as New York City,” the report reads. The term “anti-tech violent extremism” does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI domestic extremism reports or guides and represents a novel grouping of a wide range of ideologies under a single extremist category.

https://archive.ph/I00Ew

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Congress's CIA Eyes AI Data Center Critics
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Law enforcement warns of “anti-tech extremism” as AI hatred grows

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism-as-ai-hatred-grows/

DHS Is Getting Sued For the Truth About Its “Domestic Terrorism Watchlist”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ice-dhs-domestic-terror-protest-biometric-database-civil-rights/

Trump administration says it launched ‘self-defense strikes’ in Iran

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/25/us-iran-bombing-ceasefire-00935617

U.S. Airstrikes on Iran’s Oil Facilities Spewed as Much Toxic Sulfur as an Erupting Volcano

https://gizmodo.com/airstrikes-on-irans-oil-facilities-spewed-as-much-toxic-sulfur-as-an-erupting-volcano-2000764675

Trump administration targeting humanitarian aid to Cuba

https://www.commondreams.org/news/humanitarian-trips-to-cuba

ICE agent charged in Operation Metro Surge shooting is arrested in Texas

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna347567

Appeals Court clears way for Texas cops to enforce migrant arrest law

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/court-clears-way-texas-enforce-migrant-arrest-law-2026-05-30/

ICE uses solitary confinement to scare people into self-deporting

https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_4d374842-429b-45d1-9afd-d06e0f8d8ca4.html

ICE Detainees Are Dying By Suicide At An ‘Alarming’ Rate
https://apnews.com/article/ice-suicide-deaths-detention-custody-d902169055292dfd27f5079e609e86ad

ACLU sues ICE/DHS over inhumane conditions at largest immigration detention center in the U.S.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/legal-organizations-file-lawsuit-over-immigration-detention-conditions-at-camp-east-montana-in-el-pasos-fort-bliss-military-base

Judge Raises Shutting Down NYC’s Federal Plaza Detention as ICE Conditions Go on Trial
https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/27/26-federal-plaza-detention-ice-trial/

Senator Warren Has Some Questions for the GEO Group Executive Running ICE

https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2026/05/elizabeth-warren-david-venturella-ice-geo-group/

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GEO Group Handed $250,000 in Dark Money to a Group Run by Jim Jordan's Former Chief of Staff
WASHINGTON — A quarter million dollars. That’s how much GEO Group — the country’s largest private ICE detention contractor — quietly slipped to a political organization tied to Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, just days after Congress passed a law expected to make GEO extraordinarily rich…
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DOJ seek warrants for defendants who have been deported by ICE

https://www.injusticewatch.org/criminal-courts/prosecutors/2026/traffic-court-warrants-after-deportation/

Trump’s DOJ Wants to Know Who on Reddit and X Is Criticizing ICE’s Tactics

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/doj-wants-know-reddit-x-093002604.html

U.S. citizen, stopped, chained and hogtied by ICE

https://thelensnola.org/2026/05/23/u-s-citizen-stopped-in-lafayette-shackled-and-detained-in-louisiana-ice-facility/

ICE Targeted NYC Latinos With 93% Of Known Street Arrests

https://projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-arrests-investigation-racial-profiling/

How THE CITY Investigated ICE Street Arrests in the NYC Area

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/27/street-arrests-immigration-methodology-habeas-petitions/

Immigration courts are using a new tactic to speed up deportations

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5830474/trump-immigration-courts-mega-masters

ICE transfers immigration detainee on NJ hunger strike, protesters clash with officers

https://gothamist.com/news/congressmember-denied-entry-to-nj-ice-detention-facility-protestors-clash-with-officers

ICE Pepper-Sprayed NJ Detention Center Detainees for Hunger Strike

https://archive.ph/EFodm

Lawmakers Demand Reforms to Immigration Officers’ Use of Tear Gas and Pepper Spray
https://www.propublica.org/article/lawmakers-demand-reforms-tear-gas-children

ICE agents pepper-spray protesters, N.J. senator outside detention center

https://www.nj.com/news/2026/05/ice-agents-pepper-spray-protesters-nj-senator-in-clash-outside-delaney-hall-in-newark.htm

Protests Erupt at NJ Detention Center in Support of Hunger Striking Detainees

https://truthout.org/articles/protests-erupt-at-new-jersey-detention-center-in-support-of-striking-detainees/

Trump dismisses Newark ICE facility protesters as paid and fake actors

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-delaney-hall-protesters-paid-clashes-escalate-outside-nj-ice-facility

BS WARNING: 3 Spokane ICE protesters found guilty in conspiracy case

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/28/3-spokane-ice-protesters-found-guilty-in-conspirac

Subpoena bill would curtail secretive tool used to target Trump critics

“We’ve got a bipartisan group of senators and House members who share the view that we shouldn’t be sitting around and letting the Constitution be abused,” Senator Wyden, the bill’s author, said in an interview. “We’re going to push hard.”

https://archive.ph/Go1S2

For far-right MAGA extremists, the rise of a new enemy: women

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5835586/san-diego-mosque-anti-women

Trump’s DOJ launches criminal probe into E. Jean Carroll who accused Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/doj-launches-criminal-probe-into-e-jean-carroll-source-says-2026-05-28/

‘Craven and Corrupt’: DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into E. Jean Carroll, Who Won Civil Cases Against Trump

https://www.commondreams.org/news/doj-e-jean-carroll

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Trump’s DOJ Is Investigating the Woman He Raped After He Was Found Guilty. Twice.
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Trump ally, Tina Peters walks free after Colorado governor slashes her 9-year sentence

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/national-news/ap-colorado-elections-clerk-set-to-be-released-from-prison-monday-based-on-her-sentence-commutation/

Democrats say Pam Bondi refuses to answer Trump questions in Epstein probe

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-us-attorney-general-bondi-testifies-congress-panel-probing-epstein-case-2026-05-29/

Pam Bondi tells lawmakers ‘redaction errors’ were made in Epstein files release

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pam-bondi-tells-lawmakers-redaction-errors-made-epstein-files-release-rcna347525

Pam Bondi tells lawmakers Ghislaine Maxwell should ‘die in prison’

https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/us-news/former-ag-pam-bondi-tells-lawmakers-ghislaine-maxwell-should-die-in-prison/

Pam Bondi shifts responsibility for Epstein files’ release to Todd Blanche

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/29/pam-bondi-epstein-files-congress-testimony-00942272

Trump refiles $10 billion defamation suit against Wall Street Journal over report on Epstein ties
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-refiles-10-billion-defamation-suit-against-wsj-over-report-epstein-ties-2026-05-28/

Bettina Anderson, married to Donald Trump Jr. is the daughter of Jeffrey Epstein’s former banker

https://archive.ph/timU7

White House Intervened to Get a $620M Deal for a Company Tied to Donald Trump Jr.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-vulcan-deal-white-house

Rejected DHS Search Warrant Applications Raise Further Questions About the Case Against CNN Anchor Don Lemon
https://reason.com/2026/05/28/rejected-search-warrant-applications-raise-further-questions-about-the-federal-case-against-don-lemon/

NC GOP Lawmakers Propose Amendment Legalizing Murder to Stop Abortions

https://truthout.org/articles/nc-gop-lawmakers-propose-amendment-legalizing-murder-to-stop-abortions/

IRONY: FL sheriff upset about Alabama sheriff dumping homeless people on street

https://weartv.com/news/local/escambia-sheriff-questions-why-orange-beach-officer-dropped-off-homeless-man-in-pensacola

230 years ago, George Washington’s slave escaped while they were eating dinner

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ona-judge-escaped-from-slavery-while-george-washington-was-eating-dinner-inside-now-new-mural-honors-her-legacy-180988851

Peter Thiel sucks up to far-right Argentinian president Javier Milei, purchases mansion in Buenos Aires

https://archive.ph/SNjqi

Senior CIA official with top secret-level clearance charged with stealing millions of dollars in gold bars

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5837160/ex-cia-official-stealing-gold-bars

DHS/ICE Awards $25M No-Bid Iris-Scanning Contract to BI2 Technologies
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5822429/ice-buys-iris-scanners-tech-tools

DHS uses World Cup as an excuse to use AI to increase biosurveillance of Americans

“Mass-gathering events like the World Cup require the kind of coordinated, multidisciplinary situational awareness that no single institution or jurisdiction can provide alone,” Rebecca Katz, director of Georgetown’s Center for Global Health Science and Security and director of the Health Security Operations Center, said.

https://fedscoop.com/dhs-ai-machine-learning-biosurveillance-world-cup/

Samsung ID partners with CLEAR to create Big Brother facial recognition database

https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-partners-clear-samsung-id-clear-samsung-wallet

CLEAR and General Dynamics to ID people using government healthcare programs

“Secure, trusted identity is foundational to how our government delivers healthcare and critical services,” said Caryn Seidman Becker, CEO of CLEAR. “We’re proud to combine CLEAR1’s trusted identity platform with GDIT’s deep expertise in federal health and civilian agencies. Together, this collaboration helps these agencies strengthen protection of sensitive information, reduce identity-driven fraud, and provide more reliable access to the programs that patients, providers and public servants depend on.”

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clear-and-gdit-announce-strategic-collaboration-agreement-302776986.html

Sparks police use DataWorks facial recognition to ID shoplifters

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/sparks-is-using-facial-recognition-to-fight-shoplifting-is-the-tech-going-too-far

Tallahassee sheriff’s use facial recognition and license plate readers to ID public

https://tallahasseereports.com/2026/05/27/leon-county-gets-update-on-video-surveillance-technology/

Nevada police sued over wrongful facial recognition arrest

https://foxreno.com/news/local/facial-recognition-lawsuit-raises-questions-about-ai-use-in-policing-nevada-law-enforcement-police-ai-artificial-intelligence-technology-suspects-lawsuit-killinger-v-jager-city-of-reno-peppermill-resort-us-district-court-fourth-amendment

Headway Therapy Patients Forced to Submit to Facial Recognition Scans to Keep Getting Care

https://archive.ph/jNNnN

Big Brother Warning: Arkansas driver’s licenses and state IDs now available in Apple Wallet

https://arkansasadvocate.com/briefs/arkansas-drivers-licenses-and-state-ids-now-available-in-apple-wallet/

Check Out FisaReform.org to Learn About Your Stake in the Ongoing Surveillance Debate in Washington

https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/check-out-fisareformorg-to-learn-about-your-stake-in-the-ongoing-surveillance-debate-in-washington

Chilling effects of Trump’s war on free speech extend far beyond campus walls – and that’s the point
https://theconversation.com/chilling-effects-of-trumps-war-on-free-speech-extend-far-beyond-campus-walls-and-thats-the-point-283113

Boston’s Regional Intelligence Spy Center (BRIC) is Secretly Spying On College Campuses and the Public

BRIC, relied on “exigent circumstances” to procure social media monitoring.

The Boston Regional Intelligence Center (BRIC) has no formal documentation requirements governing the ongoing use of online aliases (i.e., accounts using fictitious identities) for overt monitoring of open-source social media, which constitutes most of an analyst’s activities. As a result, much of the BRIC’s social media monitoring may be left unaccountable. The BRIC does not have a policy that specifically addresses targeting of individuals, yet our conversations with a BPD attorney revealed it might review an individual’s social media more regularly if that person is actively publicizing an upcoming event. The BRIC also did not provide specifics as to how analysts monitor groups but acknowledged “checking in” on groups during the college campus encampments regarding Gaza and ceasing monitoring since the “environment has changed.”

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/investigation-shows-boston-polices-social-media-monitoring-policies-are

Boulder police chief faces class action over Flock cameras’ warrantless surveillance

https://www.courthousenews.com/boulder-police-chief-faces-class-action-over-flock-cameras-warrantless-surveillance/

The Government Can Nearly Track Your Every Move with Flock Safety Cameras – Stalkers and Hackers Can Too

https://cbn.com/news/us/government-can-nearly-track-your-every-move-these-cameras-stalkers-and-hackers-can-too

FBI Pursues $36M License Plate Network Despite Bipartisan Pushback

“Flock Safety and Motorola Solutions are the most likely bidders. Flock operates over 80,000 ALPR cameras serving more than 12,000 total customers across law enforcement and private sectors. Motorola Solutions, through its Vigilant division, maintains a database of billions of plate scans from police fleets and private repossession contractors.”

https://www.sofx.com/fbi-pursues-36-million-license-plate-network-despite-bipartisan-pushback/

Flock Safety trains police to sway city leaders to buy their surveillance tech

https://oaklandside.org/2026/05/28/flock-training-police-city-councils-webinar/

https://www.flocksafety.com/webinar/how-to-speak-to-city-councils

Fritz Reber, Flock Safety’s Drone as First Responder “Expert”

Fritz Reber is a retired Chula Vista Police Captain.

Ramapo Police Chief Praises Multi-Agency Effort During Trump’s Visit (Axon License Plate Readers, Police Drones)

Law enforcement agencies used license plate readers and drones to spy on public.

https://www.rocklanddaily.com/news/ramapo-police-chief-praises-massive-multi-agency-effort-during-trump-visit

‘BusPatrol’ Wants to Give Cops Access to Thousands of School Bus License Plate Readers

“BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers, capturing the location of every vehicle the buses drive past, and give that data to law enforcement. The plan will essentially transform school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles, taking a technology that was originally designed to issue tickets to people illegally passing stopped buses and using it for much wider and general law enforcement, likely without a warrant.”

https://archive.ph/hgSOT

More License Plate Reader Mission Creep: School Residency Verification, Background Checks, and Noise Complaints

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/more-license-plate-reader-mission-creep-school-residency-verification-background

Connecticut’s Bill 397 Offers Strongest Protections Against ALPR’s and ICE in New England

https://archive.ph/Xey8C

https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DX1eITJafwAE

Basalt police to purchase Axon license plate readers and surveillance drones

https://www.aspentimes.com/news/basalt-considers-license-plate-readers-drones-for-public-safety/

St. Louis police to create surveillance drone as first responders

https://www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/2026-05-27/st-louis-police-approves-drone-program

Falmouth, ME Town Council to vote on 10-year Axon license plate reader and taser contract

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/05/26/falmouth-to-vote-on-10-year-contract-for-police-tech/

Ohio’s police drone bill rewritten to allow WARRANTLESS surveillance

“House Bill 251 approved by the House of Representatives, however, has sparked concerns since it differs substantively from the one introduced. A new exception was added to permit warrantless drone use “to operate in navigable airspace, in a physically nonintrusive manner, in order to observe what is otherwise visible to the naked eye.”

https://www.govtech.com/policy/ohio-drone-regulation-bill-hits-statehouse-turbulence

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/05/consensus-over-drone-regulation-bill-dissipates-following-amendments-raising-public-safety-concerns.html

Evansville police use surveillance drones as first responders

https://archive.ph/rirct

Nashville police testing surveillance drones as first responders

https://wpln.org/post/nashville-police-begin-testing-drones-to-respond-to-emergency-calls/

Cobb County police use $11M DHS grant to purchase surveillance drones, tasers and surveillance gear

https://archive.ph/fbDkZ

WA police use $12M DHS grant to purchase surveillance drones

https://nwasianweekly.com/2026/05/king-county-briefs-ethnic-media-on-fifa-world-cup-2026-plans/

Wyoming City Council approves $26K purchase for new police surveillance drones

https://www.wgvunews.org/news/2026-05-27/wyoming-city-council-approves-26-000-purchase-for-new-police-drones

North Myrtle Beach police ask city to purchase surveillance drones

https://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/crime/article315686481.html

Watertown, MA police want to purchase surveillance drone

https://www.watertownmanews.com/2026/05/13/watertown-police-could-get-drone-department-is-nearly-fully-staffed-officers-will-get-ai-app/

Axon and Echodyne radar systems will expand police surveillance drone capabilities

https://www.axon.com/newsroom/announcements/echodyne-partnership-axon

Police Violence

TX police chief and a sergeant who ran prostitution ring hit with $500K bonds

https://dallasexpress.com/crime/godley-police-prostitution-bust-ex-chief-and-former-sgt-hit-with-500k-bonds

NY lawmakers want limits on shackling pregnant women after courtroom birth

https://gothamist.com/news/ny-lawmakers-want-limits-on-shackling-pregnant-people-after-brooklyn-courtroom-birth

Charges dismissed against FL woman without right hand who was stopped and fined for holding phone while driving

The citation, issued by a deputy with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office on February 11 around 8:04 a.m. along North Dixie Highway, lists the charge as “Wireless Comm. Device/Handheld While Driving – First Offense” under Florida Statute 316.305(3)(a), with a civil penalty of $116.

https://cbs12.com/news/local/florida-news-viral-tiktok-charges-dismissed-for-woman-without-right-hand-cited-for-holding-phone-while-driving-south-florida-texting-while-driving-wireless-communication-device

Judge Reprimanded For Lying About Having Sex With High-Ranking Cop in her Chambers For 2 Years

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/05/27/judge-in-florida-circuit-caught-having-sex-with-officer-in-chambers/
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/eleanor-ross-of-atlanta-is-judge-reprimanded-for-sex-in-chambers-94

Judge made racial comments about white clerk, postponed critical hearings to walk her dogs

https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/complaint-filed-against-jefferson-county-probate-judge-alleges-misconduct/

SHOCKING: US Supreme Court sides with a Black death row inmate from who claimed racial bias in Mississippi jury selection

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-sides-with-death-row-inmate-who-claimed-racial-bias-jury-2026-05-28/

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Sixth Amendment Challenge to Stop Erosion of the Right to Trial by Jury

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/the_jury_box_is_shrinking_supreme_court_refuses_to_hear_sixth_amendment_challenge_to_stop_erosion_of_the_right_to_trial_by_jury

As Trump Politicizes Justice Dept., Prosecutors Struggle With Grand Juries

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/trump-justice-department-grand-juries.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lVA.UDCU.TMQmEHhU8FSQ&smid=url-share

People Armed with AI and No Lawyer Are Filling Judicial Dockets with Lawsuits

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6766859

Police Used Debunked Hypnosis on the Only Eyewitness. Texas Wants to Kill Charles Flores Anyways

https://theappeal.org/charles-flores-hypnosis-junk-science-penn-teller-texas/

In Closing Arguments, City Defends New Haven PD, Stefon Morant Asks For $90M

A lawyer representing Stefon Morant, meanwhile, asked a jury to award his client $90 million as compensation for the decades he spent in prison after Det. Vincent Raucci allegedly framed him and Scott Lewis for a double homicide they have long claimed they did not commit.

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/05/27/in-closing-arguments-city-defends-nhpd-morant-asks-for-90m/

Three Philly men spent nearly 30 years in prison. New evidence just exonerated them

https://www.inquirer.com/crime/philadelphia-men-exonerated-murder-essie-thomas-20260526.html

How AI Can Lead To False Arrests & Wrongful Convictions

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/29/how-ai-can-lead-to-false-arrests-wrongful-convictions/

TX prosecutor charged with hit-and-run

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/crime/article/federal-prosecutor-jennifer-lowery-arrested-22269019.php

TX police used Uvalde shooting to put 11K cops in schools, which resulted in over 2,600 use-of-force cases against students

https://archive.ph/HCHdo

Lawyer alleges excessive force in Fairfield officer beating of high school student

https://abc7news.com/post/lawyer-alleges-excessive-force-fairfield-officer-bianca-camacho-beating-high-school-student-maurice-williams/19189742/

Appeals Court revives excessive force claim against Phoenix police (protestors cursed at cops)

“Qualified immunity does not apply here; accepting as true the facts as alleged in the complaint, the officers violated clearly established law by arresting the plaintiffs,” the Ninth Circuit panel wrote.

https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-revives-excessive-force-claim-against-phoenix-police/

Oakland Police Department nears end of federal monitoring after 23 years

https://www.courthousenews.com/oakland-police-department-nears-end-of-federal-monitoring-after-23-years/

NYC’s Administration for Children Services Police Abused Emergency Power to Separate Black and Latino Children from Their Parents

https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/05/29/acs-emergency-power-separate-children-parents-lawsuit/

DC mayor announces teen curfew

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-youth-curfews-what-an-order-by-mayor-bowser-changes/4107749/

Wildwood, NJ police announce teen curfew for 2nd year in a row

https://www.ktvu.com/news/jersey-shore-beach-town-unleashes-extreme-tactics-bury-viral-teen-mayhem-memorial-day-weekend

https://www.nj.com/news/2025/07/your-teen-may-be-banned-from-the-jersey-shore-after-dark-see-a-town-by-town-curfew-list.html

IN police chief’s arrest echoes past public corruption case
https://nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/article_73ddbc74-dc47-49ab-9148-afb5e04f0d7b.html

Broken windows under NYC mayor Mamdani? Frustration mounts with mayor’s policing policies

https://gothamist.com/news/broken-windows-under-mamdani-frustration-mounts-with-mayors-policing-policies

NYPD assistant chief fired stray shot during off-duty altercation with daughter’s boyfriend

https://nypost.com/2026/05/25/us-news/nypd-assistant-chief-allegedly-fired-stray-shot-during-off-duty-altercation-with-daughters-boyfriend-sources/

NYPD assistant chief stripped of gun, shield

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/26/nypd-chief-embroiled-upstate-shooting-fight-daughter-stripped-gun-shield/

MA detective, in kayak, shot hole in canoe with his brother on it
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/05/28/mass-detective-in-kayak-allegedly-shot-hole-in-canoe-with-his-brother-on-it/

MA cop accused of killing Sandra Birchmore denied bail pending trial

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2026/05/26/former-stoughton-cop-accused-of-killing-sandra-birchmore-denied-bail-pending-trial/

MN cop accused of sexual relationship with high school student

https://www.fox21online.com/news/local/former-hill-city-police-officer-accused-of-sexual-relationship-with-high-schooler/article_51ba8416-b76b-4bb4-b439-6d8e01f29f7b.html

VA cop arrested for solicitation of a minor

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/education/former-police-officer-current-school-mental-health-counselor-charged-for-solicitation-of-a-minor/65-62121763-245e-4558-a054-54f703a5fd6a

Minneapolis Police Chief resigns after having sexual relations with city employees

https://www.minnpost.com/news/2026/05/minneapolis-police-chief-brian-ohara-is-out-after-internal-probe-mayor-jacob-frey-says/

NY cop convicted of drug charges gets 16 weekends in jail

https://www.fltimes.com/news/former-geneva-police-officer-convicted-of-drug-charges-gets-16-weekends-in-jail/article_9e172ff3-6b74-4930-940e-19837d337a90.html

VT deputy accused of making ‘trading cards’ of suspects

https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/27/ex-lamoille-county-sheriffs-department-deputy-accused-of-making-trading-cards-of-suspects/

MS cop accused of retaliating against cockfighting informant

https://www.fox8live.com/2026/05/29/hammond-officer-accused-retaliating-against-cockfighting-informant/

SC cop arrested on domestic violence charges, accused of threatening boyfriend with gun

https://www.qcnews.com/news/u-s/chester-county/clover-police-officer-arrested-for-domestic-violence-after-threatening-boyfriend-with-gun-sheriff/

CA cop arrested on domestic violence charges, placed on leave

https://kmph.com/news/local/fresno-police-officer-arrested-on-felony-domestic-violence-charges-placed-on-leave

AR cop arrested for DWI

https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/little-rock-officer-arrested-traffic-stop/91-48c88627-998d-4a63-94d8-9701206f02ad

]]><![CDATA[Become A Proud "Anti-Tech Violent Extremist": Say No To Data Centers]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/say-no-to-ai-data-centers-becomehttps://joecadillic.substack.com/p/say-no-to-ai-data-centers-becomeThu, 28 May 2026 13:02:29 GMTIn the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists. Among the documents in the tranche obtained by WIRED is a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that warns of widespread upheaval in response to AI adoption. Of particular note is a novel term for what the bureau purports to be an emerging extremism threat. "The chaotic atmosphere that may result from emergent AI technology in the next five years may fuel large-scale protests that devolve into civil unrest and anti-tech violent extremist activity, especially in large urban areas such as New York City," the report reads. The term "anti-tech violent extremism" does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI domestic extremism reports or guides and represents a novel grouping of a wide range of ideologies under a single extremist category.

Law enforcement warns of “Anti-Tech Extremism” as AI hatred grows
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism-as-ai-hatred-grows/

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Enormous data pipelines powering major generative AI systems are rooted in mass invasions of privacy by design

Unlawful by Design: Exposing the Human Rights Costs of Generative AI documents serious risks in the large-scale data scraping and processing being used to build and train these systems, including violations of the right to privacy by design and adverse consequences for the environment and historically marginalized communities. “Companies across the world are supplying generative AI products under the veneer of efficiency and sophistication, but in reality, these systems perpetuate mass invasions of privacy through unlawful web scraping: an automated process for extracting data from websites, including personal data, such as images and social media activity, to train AI models,” said Likhita Banerji, Head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab, Amnesty International. “The extractive data pipeline, inherent design choices made by tech companies and exploitative supply chains, to build generative AI systems have enabled a paradigm of technology development that opens up a risk of mass abuse of human rights.” Amnesty International researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/05/global-enormous-data-pipelines-powering-major-generative-ai-systems-are-rooted-in-mass-invasions-of-privacy-by-design/

Study reveals data centers raise surrounding area temperatures by at least 4 degrees

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/experts-discover-a-hidden-hazard-from-ai-data-centers-and-people-are-angry/ar-AA24b6kC

Don’t let Big Tech hide ecological cost of data centers, environment agency chief tells EU
https://www.politico.eu/article/big-tech-ecological-cost-ai-environment-agency-chief-eu/

Erin Brockovich creates website to track data centers
“Erin Brockovich, has created a tool to map data centers across the country, along with a form for people to report data centers and their impacts in their community.”

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/erin-brockovich-made-a-map-to-track-data-centers-around-the-country/


]]><![CDATA[U.S. Privacy And World Privacy News]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-642https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-642Wed, 27 May 2026 13:03:11 GMTAmericans Wages Still Haven’t Caught Up With Prices. Trump’s War With Iran Makes Matters Worse

https://www.statista.com/chart/32428/inflation-and-wage-growth-in-the-united-states/

Statement from American Oversight On Trump’s Efforts to Evade Presidential Records Law

https://americanoversight.org/trump-admin-presidential-records-act-lawsuit-statement-05132026/

Judge Orders White House to Comply With Presidential Records Act

https://archive.ph/2Ss56

When Trump Targets the Media, the World’s Autocrats Are Taking Notes

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-targets-media

Secret GOP plan to ‘meddle’ in elections uncovered

“Mysterious super PACs are quietly emerging and spending heavily to boost candidates whom many top Democrats view as less formidable, or even toxic, in general elections. Three of these stealthy groups spent a collective $4.3 million so far in five primaries in NE, PA, CA, TX and NJ.“

https://punchbowl.news/archive/52626-am/#__mysterypacsroildemocraticprimaries__

Trump’s GOP revenge tour is complete (Massie)

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/trump-republican-revenge-massie-raffensperger-00929129

Kentucky Republicans pledge loyalty to Trump, oust Massie from Congress

https://www.courthousenews.com/kentucky-republicans-pledge-loyalty-to-trump-oust-massie-from-congress/

How Trump’s revenge tour against Republicans could cost the party in November

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-trumps-revenge-tour-against-republicans-could-cost-party-november-2026-05-20/


Trump claims 2020 election ‘rigged’ at least 107 times in six months as midterms loom

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-claims-2020-election-rigged-least-107-times-six-months-midterms-loom-2026-05-26/

Southern Republicans are rushing to redraw districts before midterms

https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-congress-voting-rights-trump-220bb5e925f8db779a59d42d4e428aa3

Local prosecutors warn Trump: “If you send ICE to the polls, we’ll put them in jail.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/18/district-attorneys-voter-intimidation-00927460

Why Trump’s stock trades are so exceptionally corrupt

https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-stock-trades-corruption-slush-fund

Manager at Trump’s N.J. Golf Club Helped Plan Reflecting Pool Repairs

https://archive.ph/MozGH

$8B Penn Station rebuild in NYC goes to firm apparently favored by Trump

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/20/penn-station-rebuild-trump-amtrak-msg-halmar/

$5 Million Donation From Big Tobacco Preceded FDA Vape Decision

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/donation-big-tobacco-vaping.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kFA.MiX8.BT-JFMWDYn3u&smid=url-share

There’s more to Trump’s corruption than stealing money

https://www.vox.com/politics/489241/trump-corruption-weaponization-irs-violence-public-order

Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/customers-say-trump-mobile-is-leaking-their-personal-information/

Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/trump-mobile-confirms-it-exposed-customers-personal-data-including-phone-numbers-and-home-addresses/


Trump was ‘personally involved’ in canceling Stephen Colbert

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/donald-trump-personally-involved-stephen-072032333.html

TN school district bans historical novel ‘Roots’ by Alex Haley

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2026/05/15/knox-county-schools-bans-historical-novel-roots-by-alex-haley/90080042007/

Why the Supreme Court’s Chatrie case could change the meaning of privacy in America

https://therecord.media/why-supreme-court-chatrie-case-could-reshape-privacy

Banks Are Not Immigration Enforcement, President Trump

“America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, but President Trump has forgotten the Constitution. The Bank Secrecy Act is one of the biggest attacks on the Fourth Amendment, and yet he has chosen to expand it with his latest executive order.”

https://www.cato.org/blog/banks-are-not-immigration-enforcement-mr-president

“Since You Arrived” website let’s you know what websites know about you

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Government agencies won’t hand over records for an investigation into how DOGE accessed data

https://archive.ph/0Tdpk

iOS 27_ Siri App to Have Auto-Deleting Chats

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/18/ios-27-siri-app-auto-deleting-chats-feature/

Cars Are Fast Becoming Dystopian Prison Pods

https://modernity.news/2026/05/16/cars-are-fast-becoming-dystopian-prison-pods/

The biggest data center ever is becoming a huge problem in Utah

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/933687/utah-stratos-project-data-center-kevin-oleary

The hidden way dictatorships are shaping what AI tells you

https://www.vox.com/politics/489191/chatgpt-claude-china-bias-ai

Pope Sounds Alarm On AI “Slavery” While Aligning With Anthropic

https://nypost.com/2026/05/22/business/vatican-taps-atheist-anthropic-cofounder-to-speak-at-ai-event-as-tensions-with-trump-white-house-rise/

https://www.news4jax.com/news/world/2026/05/18/pope-and-co-founder-of-anthropic-to-launch-pontiffs-ai-encyclical-on-may-25/

Experts warn of privacy risks as AI firms looks to connect to financial accounts
https://therecord.media/experts-warn-of-privacy-cyber-risks-ai-finance

AI assistants can be hijacked and manipulated by inaudible sounds

https://spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-audio-attacks

If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/934478/if-google-cant-make-ai-agents-useful-maybe-no-one-can

Appeals Court slams Pentagon blacklisting of Anthropic as overreach

https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-slams-pentagon-blacklisting-of-anthropic-as-overreach/

Pentagon task force races to bring powerful AI tools to America’s most sensitive networks

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/20/nsa-cyber-command-ai-task-force-mythos-00930786

Pentagon Plans to Adopt and Weaponize Latest Cyber-Capable AI Models

https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-reportedly-plans-to-adopt-and-weaponize-latest-cyber-capable-ai-models-2000761651

PRIVACY NIGHTMARE: City of Bangor, ME to use Pacer.AI to track people attending events

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/05/21/bangor/bangor-business/placerai-greater-bangor-joam40zk0w/

NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data, palmprints and fingerprints of at least 1.8M people

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/nyc-health-and-hospitals-says-hackers-stole-medical-data-and-fingerprints-during-breach-affecting-at-least-1-8-million-people/

Texas AG accuses WhatsApp of lying about message privacy

https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-accuses-whatsapp-of-lying-about-message-privacy/

State & Local Privacy News

VT- City of Burlington rejects art donation from state-recognized Abenaki group

https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/19/burlington-city-council-rejects-art-donation-from-state-recognized-abenaki-group/

NH- Pittsfield police contracts with ICE, becoming first in Merrimack County to sign agreement

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/05/19/pittsfield-police-department-contracts-with-ice-becoming-first-in-merrimack-county-to-sign-agreement/

NH- Sununu Youth Services detention center leader resigns following pressure from investigators

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/05/20/youth-detention-center-leader-resigns-following-pressure-from-investigators/

MA- Residents want police to stop sharing info with ICE

https://flipsidenews.net/brookline-residents-want-town-to-stop-sharing-info-with-feds/

MA- Homeland Security poring through voter rolls in search of foreign voters; says it found one in Saugus

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/homeland-security-poring-through-massachusetts-voter-rolls-search

MA- Cambridge City Council votes to end use of ShotSpotter technology

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/05/20/cambridge-city-council-votes-to-end-use-of-shotspotter-technology/

MA- National public safety figures slam Cambridge’s appeal to end ShotSpotter

https://archive.ph/wKggv

MA- Students sue over state’s ‘two-tiered’ public school system

Nine minor students and a coalition of community groups on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts education officials, alleging the state’s school districting illegally segregates Black and Latino children into an inferior, “two-tiered” education system.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-05-20/students-sue-massachusetts-claiming-intensely-segregated-school-districts

CT- Towing companies are ignoring new law aimed at helping low-income residents

https://ctmirror.org/2026/04/27/connecticut-towing-companies-ignore-new-law/

CT- How to Lose Your Car in Hamden in 15 Days

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/connecticut-dmv-towing-law-investigation

NY- City of Troy extends Flock Safety cameras for 60 days

https://wnyt.com/top-stories/troy-license-plate-cameras-stay-on-with-new-60-day-privacy-rules/

VA- The city of Richmond claim they banned cops from sharing Flock camera data with ICE

https://san.com/cc/why-a-virginia-city-banned-cops-from-sharing-flock-data-that-could-aid-ice/

NC- The Town of Pittsboro to end Flock Safety camera contract

https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/pittsboro-to-end-contract-with-flock-safety-for-license-plate-reader/

SC- Governor’s New Social Media Law Puts Every User Under Age Surveillance

https://reclaimthenet.org/south-carolina-social-media-surveillance-law

AL- Police departments get $10.2M to purchase armored vehicles, surveillance equipment

https://256today.com/strong-highlights-north-alabama-priorities-in-advancing-federal-spending-package/

OH- Cleveland.com reveal locations of 100 Flock Safety camera locations

https://www.cleveland.com/galleries/7KZ4J4WEQNCW7NI7AMKIK7IJEM/

OH- Activists call on city of Cleveland to end Flock Safety camera contract

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cleveland/activists-call-on-cleveland-end-flock-safety-camera-contract-city-council-consider-extension/95-57db274d-0c1e-44b2-9037-32be55a43d91

OH- Dayton police refuse to remove Flock Safety cameras, decide to cover them instead

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-s-fixed-site-flock-cameras-will-be-covered-amid-program-suspension/article_a5b62679-9d3b-5288-9684-dbfe0359438d.html

MI- Detroit police may replace ShotSpotter technology

https://www.aol.com/news/detroit-may-replace-controversial-shotspotter-165719251.html

MN- North Branch council split on Flock Safety camera program

https://www.isanti-chisagocountystar.com/news/nb-council-split-on-license-plate-reader-program/article_caf8eb7d-21d8-41ce-87a1-0b53c45dd566.html

MN- Isanti County Sheriff defends Flock Safety camera program

https://www.isanti-chisagocountystar.com/news/sheriff-defends-flock-camera-trial-program/article_f62580fb-4192-4eb8-ba83-e0cc5b1564ed.html

MN- Bloomington police still have access to license plate readers despite Flock Safety ban

https://www.ipm.org/news/2026-05-21/bloomingtons-flock-contract-may-have-ended-but-other-cameras-still-active

IL- Cook County Sheriff’s Dept. expands Flock license plate reader network

https://chicagoreader.com/news/politics/cook-county-flock-license-plate-readers/

TX- Austin police union use shooting to justify purchasing Flock Safety cameras

https://news4sanantonio.com/newsletter-daily/push-for-license-place-reader-tech-grows-in-austin-following-shooting-spree

https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2026-05-19/south-austin-tx-shootings-flock-cameras-license-plate-readers

CO- Congressional panel probes Denver, Boulder Flock Safety ICE cooperation limits

https://www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/20/congressional-panel-probes-denver-boulder-over-ice-cooperation-limits/

CO- DOT introduces new speed cameras that counteract warnings your GPS app is giving you

https://supercarblondie.com/colorado-new-speed-cameras-gps-app-warnings/

NV- Las Vegas police use $402K grant to expand Flock Safety camera program

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2026/may/21/las-vegas-launches-traffic-camera-program-vows-col/

CA- Berkeley’s former police watchdog sues the city over his firing

https://www.courthousenews.com/berkeleys-former-police-watchdog-sues-the-city-over-his-firing/

HI- Government to pay activist Dawn O’Brien $188K for censorship of political memes

https://reclaimthenet.org/hawaii-to-pay-up-after-trying-to-criminalize-political-memes

https://adfmedia.org/press-release/case-closed-hawaii-officials-pay-up-for-unconstitutional-censorship-of-political-memes/

World Privacy News

UK police log one-year-old girl as a criminal suspect

“A one-year-old girl is among hundreds of children in Kent to be recorded as suspects for crimes. A total of 683 children aged nine or younger were reported to the force in a three-year period for offenses including assault, burglary, arson and sexual offending.”

https://archive.ph/YOOoe

https://archive.ph/mVrKp

Palestinian UN Ambassador Drops Bid for VP of General Assembly Following US Threats

https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinian-ambassador-drops-un-assembly-bid

Israel Denounced for ‘Killing Spree’ of Rescue Workers in Lebanon

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-killing-lebanese-rescue-workers

Israel expands occupation by over 1,000 square km since 7 Oct 2023

https://www.balkanweb.com/en/Financial-Times-Israel-has-occupied-and-controlled-1000-square-kilometers-in-Gaza--Lebanon-and-Syria-since-October-7/#gsc.tab=0

Israel Announces Plan to Build Military Complex at UNRWA Site It Bulldozed

https://truthout.org/articles/israel-announces-plan-to-build-military-complex-at-unrwa-site-it-bulldozed/

Israeli soldiers testify to systemic looting in southern Lebanon

https://thecradle.co/articles/a-viking-army-israeli-soldiers-testify-to-systemic-looting-in-southern-lebanon

Israel condemned for ‘monstrous’ treatment of Gaza activists

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/05/20/giorgia-melonia-israel-monstrous-gaza-activists-palestine/

Gaza flotilla activists recount ‘super sadistic’ torture, sexual abuse by Israel

https://thecradle.co/articles/gaza-flotilla-activists-recount-super-sadistic-torture-sexual-abuse-during-abduction-in-israel

Trump Admin Sanctions Gaza Flotilla Activists, Baselessly Claims Ties to Hamas

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-sanctions-flotilla-activists-baselessly-claims-ties-to-hamas/

Europol dismantles ‘First VPN’ service used by ransomware gangs

https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cybercriminal-vpn-used-ransomware-actors-dismantled-in-global-crackdown

Netherlands- Amnesty International Supports Lawsuit against U.S. Tech Company AppLovin over Illegal Tracking Software

https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/amnesty-international-supports-lawsuit-against-u-s-tech-company-applovin-over-illegal-tracking-software/

Germany- The Baden-Württemberg coalition would let police use facial recognition/suspicious behavior analysis cameras to ID people

“Yesterday, Cem Özdemir and Manuel Hagel presented the green-black coalition agreement for Baden-Württemberg. For the first time in Germany, cameras are to be used here that both analyze and evaluate the behavior of those depicted and measure their faces in order to find out via facial recognition whether they are of police interest”

https://netzpolitik.org/2026/koalitionsvertrag-baden-wuerttemberg-kameras-sollen-pruefen-wer-und-wie-brav-du-bist/

Germany- Football giant (Borussia Moenchengladbach) to use facial recognition to ID ticket purchases

https://www.cityam.com/german-football-giants-plan-biometric-stadium-entry-in-place-of-tickets/

UK- On London’s streets, police facial recognition tests the balance between security and liberty

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/londons-streets-facial-recognition-tests-balance-between-security-liberty-2026-05-22/

UK- Met police asked Big Tech for access to private communications data over 700K times last year

https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/05/20/londons-police-asked-big-tech-for-comms-data-over-700000-times-last-year/5242590

UK- Palestine Action ban risked activists’ right to fair trial

https://www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-action-ban-risked-activists-right-to-fair-trial-documents-reveal/

UK- Senior Police Officials Urge Government to Restrict Under-16 Access to Social Media

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gv0qg2levo

France- Authorities probe Israeli firm’s interference in local elections

https://www.politico.eu/article/french-authorities-probe-israeli-firms-alleged-interference-in-local-elections/

Iran- Government executes two over protests and alleged espionage as court sentences four more to death

https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/25/iran-executes-two-over-protests-and-alleged-espionage-as-court-sentences-four-more-to-deat

Canada- Google Warns Government That Bill C-22 Creates Surveillance Backdoors

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-google-lawful-access-bill-c-22-cybersecurity-risks/

]]><![CDATA[U.S. News/Police Violence]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-4e1https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-4e1Tue, 26 May 2026 13:03:38 GMTU.S. Under Trump Tied South Africa for Least Free Countries in the World

The United States had one of the steepest declines in its score in 2025 among countries classified as Free. The world’s leading superpower fell to a score of 81, its lowest on record, tying South Africa and falling behind Panama (82). Over the past two decades, the U.S. score has slipped by 12 points, driven by rising polarization and political violence. The 2025 decline was caused in part by government efforts to crack down on nonviolent expression by citizens and non-citizens alike. The weakening of anti-corruption safeguards and enforcement practices by the Trump administration was also cited as contributing to the lower score compared to previous years.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-freest-countries-in-the-world/

The Committee to Protect Journalists Warns of Traveling to the U.S. to Cover the World Cup

“Based on the experiences of recent months in the United States, journalists traveling to the United States need to know that their press credentials won’t necessarily protect them at the border or when out reporting,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “We’ve seen immigration enforcement used as a tool to silence reporting, with authorities detaining, denying entry to, or deporting journalists not because of any crime, but because of their journalism.”

https://cpj.org/2026/05/cpj-urges-heightened-awareness-for-journalists-traveling-to-us-for-fifa-world-cup/

Trump Shares AI Post of Obama, Comey as a Prisoners

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116629446282651415

Trump’s Justice Department Scrubs Its Website Of News Releases About Jan. 6 Defendants

https://www.courthousenews.com/trumps-justice-department-scrubs-its-website-of-news-releases-about-jan-6-defendants/

Trump officials tried to ban half of voting machines, citing conspiracy theories

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/trump-officials-tried-ban-half-us-voting-machines-citing-conspiracy-theories-2026-05-22/

ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence

https://archive.ph/QCwsX

DHS Bought ICE Warehouses From Trump Cronies For 10x Markup

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-warehouse-markups

6 SC cops charged in child sex ring
https://www.foxcarolina.com/2026/05/20/former-upstate-officer-firefighter-among-6-arrested-alleged-child-sex-ring/

NH police show up in tactical gear and assault rifles over high school fights at Hampton beach

https://www.wmur.com/article/police-tactical-gear-ocean-boulevard-crowd-51926/71353984

https://archive.ph/wmgOO

Trump suspends joint defense with Canada dating back to World War II

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5883148-canada-defense-cooperation-trump-carney-tensions/

DOJ grand jury indicts Raul Castro, ex-Cuban president

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/20/g-s1-122383/us-cuba-raul-castro-indictment

10,000 rulings: The courts’ overwhelming rebuke of Trump’s ICE policies

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/10k-rulings-ice-mandatory-detention-trump-analysis-00914195

80-Year-Old Sues ICE for $50M Over Broken Ribs, Head Trauma and Emotional Stress

https://archive.ph/CSllr

Judge dismisses Kilmar Abrego indictment, finding DOJ abused power

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-dismisses-indictment-against-salvadoran-migrant-kilmar-abrego-2026-05-22/

Feds dramatically drop charges against Illinois anti-ICE activists amid grand jury misconduct claims

https://www.clintonherald.com/news/national_news/charges-dropped-against-activists-in-chicago-immigration-crackdown-amid-grand-jury-misconduct-claims/article_3ed9b864-55fe-57d2-b265-39eefcc116f4.html

R.I.P. ICE’s Chicago Protester Prosecution

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/r.i.p.-chicago-protester-prosecution-2025-2026

Qualified Immunity question stumps Ninth Circuit in student protest case

https://www.courthousenews.com/immunity-question-stumps-ninth-circuit-in-student-protest-case/

MA judges say feds ‘micromanaging’ immigration courts

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/05/22/ex-judges-say-feds-micromanaging-immigration-courts/

SHAMEFUL: Trump administration hires record new class of immigration judges

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-brings-record-new-class-immigration-judges-2026-05-21/

Trump Administration temporarily moving immigration lawyers to DOJ to speed up citizenship crackdown

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-temporarily-moving-immigration-lawyers-doj-speed-up-citizenship-crackdown-2026-05-22/

George Washington University graduates flip off trump motorcade on way to golf course

https://meidasnews.com/news/graduates-greet-trump-motorcade-with-middle-fingers-on-way-to-golf-club

Close to 150,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps

“Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings. The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-child-parent-separation-estimates-brookings

MA judge orders ICE to permanently leave an Ecuadorean woman with epilepsy alone

“US District Court Judge Leo Sorokin used pretty much every single one of the 30 pages of his ruling on Wednesday to decry how ICE lied, lied again and then lied about its previous lies, how it deprived Laura Maria Guevara Peruano, of the medication she needed to control her epilepsy, anxiety and depression.”

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-sanctions-ice-complete-disregard-constitution-truth-and-basic

Judge Sanctioned CorCivic for Destroying Evidence in ICE Death Suit

https://archive.ph/WYTrt

A Florida Detention Center Was the Harshest in the Country. Then ICE Stopped Tracking Details on Use of Force

https://reason.com/2026/05/22/a-florida-detention-center-was-the-harshest-in-the-country-then-ice-stopped-tracking-details-on-use-of-force/

Megyn Kelly eviscerates Trump for cheating on ‘every wife’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/megyn-kelly-eviscerates-trump-for-cheating-on-every-wife/

Congressman Slams Trump Goon for ‘Taking Good Care’ of Ghislaine Maxwell

https://www.thedailybeast.com/congressman-slams-trump-goon-todd-blanche-for-taking-good-care-of-epstein-accomplice-ghislaine-maxwell/

Epstein survivors kick off 24-hour reading of files in Lower Manhattan

https://www.amny.com/news/survivors-read-epstein-files-lower-manhattan

It’s Not Just ICE Stockpiling Weapons—the IRS, EPA, and Other Feds Are Arming Up Too

https://reason.com/2026/05/21/beware-the-blob-of-federal-police/

DOJ Blocks IRS Audits Of Trump And His Family

https://archive.ph/gqHDq

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IRS officials consider adding citizenship question to tax forms

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-tax-officials-consider-adding-citizenship-question-tax-forms-2026-05-22/

Trump drops IRS lawsuit in exchange for DOJ $1.76 billion ‘weaponization’ fund

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/18/g-s1-119783/trump-irs-lawsuit-settlement

Todd Blanche Blanche won’t rule out Trump ‘anti-weaponization’ payouts to January 6 rioters

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-weaponization-fund-todd-blanche-jan-6_n_6a0c6ce0e4b00b2edf7d81de

Rudy Giuliani, and former NYC Mayor Adams could seek payouts from Trump’s $1.76B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/19/giuliani-adams-payouts-trump-anti-weaponization-fund/

Senators put Blanche on defense over $1.776B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5885274-blanche-trump-anti-weaponization-fund/

Treasury Lawyer Quits as Government Settles $1.776B Trump IRS Suit

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5884833-morrissey-departure-treasury-doj/

Where will the $1.766B for the ‘anti‑weaponization fund’ come from?

“The ‘Judgment Fund’ is a permanent, indefinite appropriation that Congress established to pay most judgments and settlements against the federal government.”

https://theconversation.com/where-will-money-for-the-anti-weaponization-fund-come-from-this-man-has-been-warning-of-judgment-fund-abuse-for-years-283448

Officers who defended US Capitol on Jan. 6 sue to block ‘anti-weaponization fund’

https://www.courthousenews.com/officers-who-defended-us-capitol-on-jan-6-sue-to-block-anti-weaponization-fund/

Republicans block subpoenas for Trump officials involved in ‘anti-weaponization’ fund

https://www.courthousenews.com/democrats-eye-subpoenas-for-trump-officials-over-1-8b-lawfare-fund/

“Welcome to MAGA” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during testimony

TN man falsely jailed over Charlie Kirk meme awarded $835K

https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/20/perry-county-pays-835k-to-settle-lawsuit-after-sheriff-jailed-man-for-37-days-over-trump-meme/

Trump declines to endorse Vance for 2028 in tense exchange

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-declines-to-endorse-vance-for-2028-in-tense-exchange/ss-AA23zJ5u

Nevada judge says ethics charges defy Trump pardon

https://pvtimes.com/news/fiore-seeks-to-dismiss-judicial-discipline-charges-185958/

Red states are turning social service workers into immigration enforcement

https://stateline.org/2026/05/13/red-states-press-social-service-workers-into-immigration-enforcement/

Members of Congress Took More than $1.7M from ICE Contractors

https://theappeal.org/congress-ice-contractor-contributions-pacs-execs/

Judge Blocks ICE Arrests Inside NYC Immigration Courthouses

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/19/judge-blocks-ice-arrests-immigration-courthouses/

NYC Immigrant Detained in Court A Day After Judge Barred Most ICE Arrests

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/19/ice-arrest-26-federal-plaza-judge-order/

ICE enforcement in Vermont impacts childcare sector

https://archive.ph/Ou9Af

Vermont House refuses to ban ICE agents from wearing masks

https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/20/vermont-house-stops-short-of-unmasking-ice-dividing-house-democrats/

DHS lied about shovel attack during violent immigration arrests, charge ICE agent for shooting man in the leg

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/18/minnesota-prosecutors-charge-ice-agent-christian-castro-00926417

ACLU Calls on Congress to to Hold ICE Agents Accountable by Allowing People to Sue Them for Rights Violations

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/aclu-calls-on-congress-to-to-hold-federal-agents-accountable-by-allowing-people-to-sue-them-for-rights-violations

Northwest Arkansas airport to use CLEAR facial recognition to ID passengers

https://ir.clearme.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/185/clear-expands-to-northwest-arkansas-national-airport

CLEAR and General Dynamics work together to expand digital IDs
https://ir.clearme.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/187/clear-and-gdit-announce-strategic-collaboration-agreement

IRS wants to let ID.me store taxpayers biometrics for up to 3 years

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/22/irs-biometric-data-tax-investigation-00909108

San Francisco Retiree Fights Against the IRS’s Excessive Fine that Will Drain His Life Savings

https://ij.org/press-release/san-francisco-retiree-fights-against-the-irss-excessive-fine-that-will-drain-his-life-savings/

Disney Hit With Class Action Over Facial Recognition Technology at Park Entrances

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-class-action-lawsuit-facial-recognition-disneyland-1236598890/

“FarSight” whole-body recognition uses drones to ID people by their face, gait and body shape

“The aim of whole-body biometric recognition is to develop a person recognition system that will surpass the performance of state-of-the-art recognition of the face, gait, and body shape alone, specifically in the challenging, unregulated conditions present in full-motion videos. Biometric (face, gait and body shape) feature encoding.”

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17206

Texas AG opens investigation into Meta’s facial recognition glasses

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-launches-investigation-meta-glasses-protect-texans-privacy-unlawful

Filming Cops Is a First Amendment Right. The Feds Keep Harassing People Anyway

https://reason.com/2026/05/19/filming-cops-is-a-first-amendment-right-the-feds-keep-harassing-people-for-it-anyway/

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

https://archive.is/Rq2hb

Federal FISA Foolishness In The ‘Golden Age Of Surveillance’

On the issue of surveillance, those who advocate for privacy are viewed by powerful people and institutions as nuisances. At best. Fourth Amendment crusaders are often dismissed as radicals, if they’re recognized at all. At worst, they are targeted by high-ranking officials, or even by President Trump.

https://binj.news/2026/05/19/federal-fisa-foolishness-in-the-golden-age-of-surveillance/

Records show Cleveland’s Flock network used for immigration searches. City blames Flock and drones

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/05/records-show-clevelands-flock-network-used-for-immigration-searches-city-blames-flock-and-drones.html

After the town of Bandera Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban

https://archive.ph/oqp79

YAWN: A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide

https://archive.ph/2Wlz9

EPIC, Coalition Urge Congress to Ban Flock Safety License Plate Readers

https://epic.org/epic-coalition-urge-congress-to-ban-flock-automatic-license-plate-readers/

Dallas police expand surveillance drones as first responder network

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-police-new-crime-analysis-software-drone-response-program/4026701/

Coral Springs police to use surveillance drones as first responder

https://www.coralspringsflnews.com/news/local/article315839427.html

Bellingham police to purchase surveillance drones as first responder

https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politics-government/article315804174.html

Several Twin Cities police departments considering surveillance drones as first responder

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/twin-cities-police-drones-first-responders/

How San Francisco Police Department’s surveillance drones have reshaped their response to 911 calls

“The San Francisco Police Department launched its “Drones as First Responders” program in 2024 after voters approved Measure E, a public-safety-focused overhaul that enabled the department to add drones to its emergency response and surveillance operations.”

https://abc7news.com/post/look-sfpds-new-drone-program-how-reshaping-departments-response-incidents/19066162/

Dallas police get $120M to buy surveillance drones as a first responder

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-safety/article/dallas-police-launch-drone-first-response-program-22266358.php

Police Violence

Studies Question Accuracy of AI-Assisted Police Reports

“AI police reports were rated substantively and significantly worse on accuracy (p = .038).” The report specifically noted that “The estimated effect moves a report from roughly the 50th to the 36th percentile on perceived accuracy.”

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/studies-question-value-of-ai-assisted-police-reports

A Good College Essay but a Bad Police Report: A Triple-Blind Expert Evaluation of AI-Assisted Police Reporting

https://www.crimrxiv.com/pub/u7azgqzd/release/1

TX judge drops charges of felony false alarm arrests over contaminated public water protest

https://www.fox4news.com/news/trinidad-texas-water-controversy-charges-dismissed-facebook-post

Lawsuit Claims Topeka Police Trained Officers with ‘Plan to Kill’

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2026/05/15/national-police-accountability-joins-topeka-suit-citing-plan-to-kill/90103370007/

https://nationalpoliceaccountability.org/bombshell-revelation-in-topeka-police-killing-of-taylor-lowery-officers-were-trained-to-have-a-plan-to-kill/

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts faces impeachment push

https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-john-roberts-impeachment-steve-cohen-11984709

Supreme Court conservatives are embracing Trump’s MAGA solicitor general

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/18/politics/solicitor-general-john-sauer-supreme-court-conservative-majority

Senate confirms new US attorney Darren Smith, despite NINE misconduct allegations

https://wyofile.com/misconduct-findings-dont-stall-darin-smiths-confirmation-for-wyoming-us-attorney/

Appeals Court fed up over Arizona prison reform compliance

https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-fed-up-over-arizona-prison-reform-compliance/

Iowa inmates get second shot at challenging $95 daily county jail fees

Black Hawk County charges jail inmates $70 dollars per day of incarceration plus a $25 booking fee. Under ordinary Iowa practice, if a released inmate does not pay voluntarily, a county must collect unpaid fees by filing a civil reimbursement claim that is reviewed by an Iowa court. By asking prisoners to sign a “confession of judgment,” Black Hawk County commits them to paying fees upon their release without the right to challenge the collection in court.

https://www.courthousenews.com/iowa-inmates-get-second-shot-at-challenging-county-jail-fees/

Louisiana Governor’s Prison Budget Proposal Stands to Cost Taxpayers Millions

https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-jeff-landry-prison-budget-increase

The First Amendment Foundation fighting Florida’s domestic terrorism law

https://www.wlrn.org/light/government-politics/2026-05-20/cair-v-ron-desantis-and-the-state-of-florida-whats-behind-the-terror-designation

https://www.legalnewsline.com/florida-record/free-speech-group-may-fight-to-fla-domestic-terrorism-law/article_bf96a161-943b-4312-b06e-d37abfe28599.html


Colorado jury awards $24M to man over wrongful arrest, prosecuted for hiring an attorney for his son

Robert Dial, 62, filed suit in May 2024 against Parker Police Department Detective Shannon Brukbacher, claiming the detective retaliated against him after he hired an attorney for his son.

https://www.nj.com/news/2026/05/hiring-a-lawyer-led-to-nj-mans-arrest-and-a-record-breaking-24m-payout.html

Black man framed by NC detective for double murder coerced statement (cop re-wound tape recording to get statement he wanted)

“If I didn’t give the correct answer Det. Vincent Raucci wanted, he would stop and rewind it [the tape],” said Stefon Morant. “He would give me the words,” and “he wanted me to make it sound like me.”

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/05/20/morant-details-n-c-alibi-explains-statement-coerced-by-detective/

Stefon Morant Details Prison’s Toll, Slams City For Standing By “Corrupt Cop”

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/05/19/morant-details-prisons-toll-questions-city-for-standing-by-corrupt-cop/

Albany police chief backs officers after Black councilman’s racial profiling allegations

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/albany-police-chief-to-releases-body-cam-video-to-clarify-stop-of-city-councilmember-brendan-cox-context-thursday-may-21-press-conference-camera-footage-public-cbs6-wrgb

Citizen review board registers complaint for Black Albany councilor pulled over by police

https://www.wamc.org/news/2026-05-22/albany-community-police-review-board-complaint

From MA Lab Scandals to Police Scandals: Lessons in Resolving Government Misconduct in Criminal Cases

https://bostonbar.org/journal/from-lab-scandals-to-police-scandals-lessons-in-resolving-government-misconduct-in-criminal-cases/

Maricopa Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163M

https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-sheriff-audit

How community groups and activists turned Camden into a model of police reform

https://theconversation.com/how-community-groups-activists-and-local-media-turned-camden-into-a-model-of-police-reform-282835

Appeals Court Upholds Ruling That City Must Compensate Innocent Woman After SWAT Team Destroyed Her Home

https://ij.org/press-release/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-that-city-must-compensate-innocent-woman-after-swat-team-destroyed-her-home/

PA Supreme Court Rules ShotSpotter Alerts Can Justify Police Stops

https://verdict.news/state/pa-supreme-court-5-2-shotspotter-alerts-can-justif-019e41d0

False Testimony Sent an Innocent Black Man to Death Row. Tennessee Is About to Kill Him

https://archive.ph/glImb

Man who spent decades on death row over junk science “bite marks” awaits Louisiana Supreme Court ruling

https://www.kplctv.com/2026/05/22/man-who-spent-decades-death-row-awaits-louisiana-supreme-court-ruling-his-case/

San Diego police who wrongfully arrested a man defending a soap bubble artist agree to pay $450K

https://www.courthousenews.com/san-diego-artist-reaches-450k-settlement-over-bubble-show-citation/

Appeals Court sides with open government group in fight over Minneapolis police ‘coaching’ records

The Minneapolis Police Department may be required to make public far more records detailing misconduct by its officers after the state Court of Appeals overturned a lower court’s ruling this week. At issue is whether the public should have access to records of Minneapolis police officers who receive “coaching” for misconduct.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/05/20/appeals-court-sides-with-open-government-group-in-fight-over-minneapolis-police-coaching-records/

PA Family Says the DEA Battered Down Their Door While Raiding the Wrong Home

https://reason.com/2026/05/19/pennsylvania-family-says-the-dea-battered-down-their-door-while-raiding-the-wrong-home/

Vermont police department’s social media tactics lead to arrests — and criticism

https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/21/police-departments-social-media-tactics-lead-to-arrests-and-criticism/

Couple sues NH police for violating constitutional rights during underage drinking investigation

“During the party, the home’s liquor cabinet was secured with an electronic lock, sections of the house were cordoned off with Halloween caution tape, and adults were present throughout the evening, the lawsuit states. Attorneys for the Stephen and Renee Legro point to the Gilford police officers’ own body camera footage and transcripts as evidence supporting their claims.”

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/05/24/legros-sue-gilford-police-rights/

NYPD cops under fire for flashing symbols of NYC’s most violent gang

https://nypost.com/2026/05/24/us-news/nypd-cops-under-fire-for-flashing-symbols-of-nycs-most-violent-gang-mac-baller-brims/

MI cop praised for not firing gun over “suspicious activity in a neighborhood” during ‘water wars’ high school senior prank

Why were police there in the first place?

https://www.fox8live.com/2026/05/15/officer-praised-not-firing-gun-high-school-student-during-water-wars-senior-prank

Boston cop indicted on voluntary manslaughter for on-duty shooting

https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/05/20/grand-jury-indicts-boston-police-officers-on-voluntary-manslaughter-for-on-duty-shooting/

Philadelphia correctional officer gets 30-year sentence for sexual assault of inmate

https://www.phillyvoice.com/former-correctional-officer-federal-prison-philly-sentence-sexual-assault-inmate/

MS police chief faces bribery, conspiracy charges

https://www.wdam.com/2026/05/21/former-local-police-officer-faces-bribery-conspiracy-charges/

IN police chief arrested on felony charges

https://www.wdrb.com/southern-indiana-assistant-police-chief-arrested-on-felony-charges/video_81559167-8039-5e26-917c-d506f91db3f7.html

IL police chief charged with misconduct, obstruction of justice, theft, and unlawful possession of an anabolic steroid

https://abc7chicago.com/post/earl-mayo-new-chicago-indiana-police-chief-arrested-clark-county-ohio-charged-theft-misconduct-obstruction-more/19162713/

GA cop charged in child abuse case

https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/athens-clarke-county-police-officer-2-others-charged-in-child-abuse-investigation-gbi-says/

KY cop arrested on sexual charges involving minor

https://www.wkms.org/criminal-justice/2026-05-20/murray-police-officer-arrested-on-sexual-charges-involving-minor-resigns-from-agency

WA cop arrested on child porn charges

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/arlington-police-officer-arrested-accused-possessing-child-porn/I2UMSKY7LJGAFKQBN5XW2SPGQM/

WA cop arrested for child exploitation

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/auburn-officer-arrested-pierce-county-child-exploitation-investigation/281-52f44000-ac0a-4fd9-92bb-271e8686d2d7

Las Vegas corrections officer arrested on lewdness, prostitution charges

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/05/21/las-vegas-corrections-officer-arrested-lewdness-prostitution-charges/

Uniformed LA cop arrested, accused of home invasion and domestic abuse battery

https://www.wafb.com/2026/05/17/new-roads-officer-arrested-accused-home-invasion-domestic-abuse-battery/

TX cop arrested on domestic violence charges

https://www.ksat.com/news/ksat-investigates/2026/05/19/source-sapd-officer-arrested-charged-with-misdemeanor-family-violence-charge/

KY cop charged with distribution of obscene matter to a minor

https://www.wkyt.com/2026/05/20/lexington-police-officer-charged-with-distribution-obscene-matter-minor/

Uniformed MN cop arrested for DWI

https://www.fox9.com/news/chatfield-police-officer-arrested-bloomington-suspected-dwi-may-22

]]><![CDATA[U.S. Privacy And World Privacy News]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-5a6https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-5a6Tue, 19 May 2026 14:00:55 GMTTrump Administration Promotes Program To Check Voter Eligibility. Critics Fear A Midterm Purge

https://apnews.com/article/trump-voter-eligibility-purge-noncitizens-disenfranchised-8f78773f583e4404136707c62acc648a

Drug companies involved in TrumpRx boosted lobbying by 23%

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/05/drug-companies-involved-in-trumprx-boosted-lobbying-by-23-ahead-of-programs-launch

Trump’s drug pricing deal with the UK faces a legal threat

https://www.politico.eu/article/legal-action-nhs-drug-pricing-deal-donald-trump/

In the South, the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals leans farther right than the Supreme Court

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-south-an-appeals-court-leans-farther-right-than-supreme-court-2026-05-17/

Senate Confirms Trump Loyalist Kevin Warsh as Next Chair of the Federal Reserve

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5816235/kevin-warsh-federal-reserve-chair-jerome-powell

Tesla Reveals New Details About Robotaxi Crashes—and the Humans Involved

https://archive.ph/cTmH3

Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/judge-probes-whether-musk-settlement-with-trump-admin-is-tainted-by-corruption/

Trump Ethics Filing Reveals Thousands Of Trades Tied To U.S. Corporate Securities

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-ethics-filing-reveals-thousands-trades-tied-us-corporate-securities-2026-05-14/

Most Corrupt President Ever Has Found Yet Another Profit Center_ Stock Trading

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-stocks-corrupt_n_6a075ebde4b0a33000e1a7fc

Why Is The DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group Report So...Normal?

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-is-the-weaponization-report-so---normal

How Trump has undermined the fight against public corruption

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/g-s1-121485/trump-pardons-public-corruption-justice

Louisiana senator who voted to convict Trump loses Republican primary

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/16/nx-s1-5824533/bill-cassidy-lost-louisiana-primary-letlow-trump

Republican Senator Cassidy loses re-election to Trump retribution campaign

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-cassidy-faces-trump-retribution-effort-louisiana-senate-primary-2026-05-16/

Thomas Massie’s Chances of Defeating Trump and the Billionaires

https://www.newsweek.com/thomas-massies-chances-of-defeating-trump-and-the-billionaires-11956177

DISGUSTED: Appeals court spares Trump from paying $83M defamation award to E. Jean Carroll

https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-abuse-defamation-670dd7ed241e22c52bd16e82a9febf69

The Federal Government Tried To Spy on Your Financial Transactions. A Texas Court Just Said No

https://reason.com/2026/05/15/the-federal-government-tried-to-spy-on-your-financial-transactions-a-texas-court-just-said-no/

Power Prices in Eastern U.S. Spike 76% Thanks to AI Data Centers

https://gizmodo.com/power-prices-in-eastern-u-s-spike-76-thanks-to-ai-data-centers-2000759230

AI Can Now Hack Servers and Replicate Itself Across Networks

“A new paper from Palisade Research says several AI systems were able to identify vulnerable servers, hack them, install copies of themselves on newly compromised machines and, in some cases, even continue the process across additional hosts.”

https://expose-news.com/2026/05/10/ai-can-now-hack-servers-and-replicate-itself-across-networks/

ChatGPT Can Now Connect to Your Bank Account and See All Your Transactions

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-can-now-connect-to-your-bank-account-and-see-all-your-transactions-2000759306

Sam Altman’s Colleagues Say He Can’t Be Trusted

https://archive.ph/P1BW8

Sam Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he’s a prolific liar

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/altman-forced-to-confront-claims-at-openai-trial-that-hes-a-prolific-liar/

Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/will-i-be-ok-teen-died-after-chatgpt-pushed-deadly-mix-of-drugs-lawsuit-says/

Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/anthropic-blames-dystopian-sci-fi-for-training-ai-models-to-act-evil/

Palantir CEO says Berlin’s distrust of battlefield software is misplaced

https://www.politico.eu/article/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-germany-military-software-contracts/

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

https://archive.ph/c6z8w

After Killing Encrypted DMs, Mark Zuckerberg Wants You to Trust His New Encrypted AI Chat

https://gizmodo.com/after-killing-encrypted-dms-mark-zuckerberg-wants-you-to-trust-his-new-encrypted-ai-chat-2000758266

A Meta Engineer’s Post Protesting Laptop Surveillance Is Going Viral

https://archive.ph/02FY1

Most doctors are secretly using OpenEvidence AI. Few patients know about it

Over the past two years, medical providers across America have quietly embraced a new AI tool called OpenEvidence to help them make clinical decisions, brush up on medical knowledge and even prepare for their licensing exams. The service, a sort of chatbot for doctors, was used by about 65% of U.S. doctors across almost 27 million clinical encounters in April alone, the company told NBC News.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openevidence-ai-doctor-medical-physician-login-app-what-npi-uptodate-rcna341064

Mayo Clinic is Using AI to Listen to Emergency Room Visits

https://archive.ph/gqHVy

Your doctor’s AI note taker may be making things up

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/your-doctors-ai-notetaker-may-be-making-things-up-ontario-audit-finds/

Trump DOJ cites its own legal memo for nationwide voter data collection

https://archive.ph/54lcu

https://cyberscoop.com/federal-voter-data-collection-doj-legal-memo/

The same dark money groups keep turning up in redistricting fights

(The Justice for Democracy PAC, The Global Impact Social Welfare Fund, American Opportunity Action, The Fund for Policy Reform, The Fairness Project and House Majority Forward)

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/05/the-same-dark-money-groups-keep-turning-up-in-redistricting-fights

Supreme Court Clears Way for Alabama to Adopt New House Map That Removes Majority-Black District

https://alabamareflector.com/2026/05/11/u-s-supreme-court-vacates-ruling-blocking-use-of-2023-alabama-congressional-map/

Alabama AG announces civil probe of Southern Poverty Law Center

https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law-center-39687360a6e5e65ac1123e974853dc9d

GOP Governor Landry Blasted for Throwing Out 45,000 Votes in Louisiana With a ‘Smirk and a Chuckle’

https://www.commondreams.org/news/landry-throws-out-votes

A Conspiracy Theory (Garland Favorito) About QR Codes Has Led to Chaos Ahead of Georgia’s Midterms

https://archive.ph/kvs2L

Georgia group (Garland Favorito) that pushes election misinformation gains influence with election officials

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/09/politics/georgia-election-misinformation-voterga-garland-favorito

Republican sues Illinois for allegedly using race to redraw congressional map

https://mahometdaily.com/illinois-lawsuit-claims-state-voting-rights-act-unconstitutionally-uses-race-in-drawing-legislative-maps/

NH Legislative Committee Votes to Censure Republican for his Anti-Semitic and Racist Tweets

https://indepthnh.org/2026/05/06/rep-corcoran-censure-vote-heading-to-house-over-anti-semitic-comments/

Mysterious Meddling in Democratic Primaries Has G.O.P. Fingerprints

https://archive.ph/s09L8

Trump’s Inner Circle Is Already Scrambling Over the 2028 Presidential Ticket

https://archive.ph/KyikE

Trump’s DOJ Fines PayPal $30M Over ‘DEI Program’ That Helped Black-Owned Businesses

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4564781/doj-paypal-scrap-dei-30-million-settlement/

Amicus Briefs Say Trump Immigration Policy Chills Researchers’ Speech

https://www.techpolicy.press/amicus-briefs-say-trump-immigration-policy-chills-researchers-speech/

School Book Bans: 44% of banned titles feature characters or people of color, the largest percentage ever

https://pen.org/report/facts-fiction

Wall Street Is Pairing Up With the U.S. Army to Build Data Centers

https://truthout.org/articles/wall-street-is-pairing-up-with-the-army-to-build-data-centers/

Backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bigger-2-124356503.html

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/mr-wonderful-utah-stratos-data-center-shark-tank/

Google launches new Android security feature to help uncover spyware attacks

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/google-launches-new-android-security-feature-to-help-uncover-spyware-attacks/

FCC Attempts to Solve Robocall Problem by Potentially Creating Even Bigger Privacy Problem

“This move could kill burner phones if it goes forward.”

https://gizmodo.com/fcc-attempts-to-solve-robocall-problem-by-potentially-creating-even-bigger-privacy-problem-2000756762

FCC Commissioner Tells Disney the Agency Is on a Campaign to Censor It

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/democratic-fcc-commissioner-tells-disney-target-censorship-campaign-rcna344568

The FTC’s inadequate Kochava proposed privacy settlement

https://clpblog.citizen.org/the-ftcs-inadequate-kochava-proposed-privacy-settlement/

Nobody believes the ‘criminals and scumbags’ who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data

https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/05/14/security-pros-doubt-canvas-attackers-really-deleted-stolen-student-data/5240799

Wealthy Students More Likely to Get Disability Accommodations
https://www.the74million.org/article/wealthy-students-more-likely-to-get-disability-accommodations-study-finds/

Netflix sued by Texas for secretly recording children’s data

https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-targets-netflix-over-data-collection-autoplay-feature/

Sony’s failed war against Internet piracy may doom other copyright lawsuits

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/sonys-failed-war-against-internet-piracy-may-doom-other-copyright-lawsuits/

Spotify launches Big Brother “Wrapped” that shows users their entire listening history

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/spotifys-launches-a-wrapped-style-recap-of-your-entire-listening-history/

Appeals Court Reinstates Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Privacy Lawsuit

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/415010/court-reinstates-shopper-privacy-suit-over-sessio.html

The DOJ Is Demanding Apple And Google Identify Over 100,000 Users Of EZLynk Car App

https://archive.ph/wzzKS

State & Local Privacy News

Across the U.S., lawmakers propose guardrails to limit the sharing of Flock Safety camera data

https://www.thestatehousefile.com/politics/across-u-s-lawmakers-propose-guardrails-to-limit-the-sharing-of-license-plate-camera-data/article_231a809a-6227-4b7b-ac39-fcfc69232e5b.html

Automatic License Plate Recognition Systems: Summary of State Laws

https://legislativeanalysis.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Automatic-License-Plate-Recognition-Systems-Summary-of-State-Laws.pdf

VT- What Burlington’s new license plate camera means for parking downtown

https://www.aol.com/articles/burlingtons-license-plate-camera-means-145012453.html

ME- Portland police are considering adding another Flock camera

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/05/11/south-portland-is-considering-adding-another-flock-camera-what-are-these/

ME- South Portland police plan public workshop on Flock cameras

https://www.newscentermaine.com/video/news/local/south-portland/south-portland-plans-public-workshop-on-license-plate-reader-cameras/97-6e6e55b2-3dd0-4dae-809c-db72f1f4ced7

NH- At least 19 police departments are participating in 287g programs with ICE

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-05-15/nh-287g-ice-immigration-customs-enforcement-dhs-police-law-enforcement

NH- State health official says abuse allegations at the Sununu Youth Services detention center are false

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-05-12/sununu-youth-services-center-detention-abuse-neglect-restraing-seclusion

NH- Racist Libertarian Leader Arrested After Racist Incident

“Low IQ schizophrenic Africans who scream at kids in parking lots should be deported from New Hampshire. We shouldn’t punish decent men who stand up to them,” Libertarian Jeremy Kauffman wrote.

https://indepthnh.org/2026/05/12/nh-libertarian-leader-charged-after-alleged-racist-incident/

NH- House Seeks Bans on Obscene School Books and Harmful Materials

https://indepthnh.org/2026/05/14/nh-house-seeks-bans-on-obscene-and-harmful-materials/

MA- Governor bars ICE from getting undercover license plates for civil arrests

“This is an agency that can’t and won’t even tell us who they are arresting and why. We are not going to enable their tactics,” Jacqueline Manning, spokesperson for Governor Maura Healey said.

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-05-14/mass-rmv-bars-ice-from-getting-undercover-license-plates-for-civil-arrests

MA- Judge weighs Boston ‘sanctuary city’ case brought by Trump administration

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/05/13/federal-judge-boston-trust-sanctuary-ice-doj

CT- Lawmakers consider limits on Flock Safety cameras at Lowe’s and Home Depot’s

https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/ct-lawmakers-license-plate-cameras-retailers-22248967.php

NJ- Lawmaker says police Flock Safety cameras put abortion-seekers at risk

https://www.newjerseyhills.com/hanover_florham_park_eagle/new_jersey/license-plate-readers-put-abortion-seekers-at-risk-lawmaker-says/article_c596f50d-76f9-5adf-a230-ab4f79d674e4.html

NC- The town of Pittsboro cancels Flock Safety camera contract, citing surveillance concerns

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nc-town-ends-flock-safety-130000704.html

NC- The State Bureau of Investigation wants Flock Safety cameras covering ‘all entrances and exits’

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article315758966.html

AL- City of Birmingham to allegedly review Flock Safety contract

https://www.downtownpublications.com/single-post/city-looks-at-current-use-of-flock-cameras

OH- Newport police testing 6 Flock Safety cameras amid privacy concerns

https://www.wlwt.com/article/newport-police-testing-license-plate-reader-cameras/71298203

https://linknky.com/news/2026/05/11/flock-camera-benefits-touted-in-newport-some-residents-express-unease/

OH- Shaker Heights Changes Flock Policy After Outside Immigration Searches

https://www.clevescene.com/news/shaker-heights-changes-flock-policy-after-outside-immigration-searches/

IN- Fort Wayne Police’s “Raven” gunshot detector (Flock Safety) stretches the limits of public surveillance

https://archive.ph/H9LnN

MI- State lawmakers propose guardrails to limit use of Flock Safety license plate reader data

https://www.70and73.com/news/state-lawmakers-propose-guardrails-to-limit-use-of-license-plate-reader-data-especially-over-several/article_c7db01a3-7d5b-4032-bdd8-f9abc05e6f8e.html

MI- State needs guardrails on Flock Safety camera surveillance

https://archive.ph/rLneq

IL- Termination hearing for Joliet police lieutenant who used Flock Safety cameras to spy on women continued in closed session

https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2026/05/13/termination-hearing-for-joliet-police-lieutenant-continued-to-another-date-after-4-hours-in-closed-session/

IA- Dubuque police call Flock Safety cameras a tremendous asset

https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/tri-state/article_fa3c376c-09e8-42a8-b330-8adb547d521a.html

ND- Minot City Council discusses how may Flock Safety license plate readers to install

https://www.kxnet.com/news/minot-city-council-considers-automated-license-plate-readers/

TX- Why My San MArcos Took Action Against Flock Safety Cameras

https://www.texasobserver.org/san-marcos-city-council-end-alprs/

TX- Bandera City Council terminates Flock Safety camera contract

https://www.banderabulletin.com/article/3093,council-votes-to-terminate-flock-safety-contract

TX- Third City of Amarillo employee pleads guilty of stealing money from the homeless

https://abc7amarillo.com/news/local/third-city-of-amarillo-employee-who-stole-from-the-homeless-officially-pleads-guilty-selene-varela-theft-community-development-department-housing-and-urban-development-hud-fictitious-landlord-relative-amy-dixon-vanessa-robinson

TX- AG Obtains Smart TV Privacy Settlement With LG — Here’s What Changes

https://natlawreview.com/article/texas-obtains-smart-tv-privacy-settlement-lg-heres-what-changes

CO- If police Flock Safety cameras are here to stay, we must regulate how their data is accessed

https://www.dailycamera.com/2026/05/10/automatic-license-plate-readers-mass-surveillance-flock-safety-data-privacy-editorial/

AZ- Maricopa County sheriff claims their using Flock Safety cameras the “right way”

https://archive.ph/a1iwW

CA- Police Use Over 15K Flock Safety Cameras To Spy On The Public

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/12/license-plate-reader-baton-passing/

CA- Berkeley City Council renews Flock Safety contract but rejects police drone surveillance program

https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/05/12/berkeley-extends-flock-camera-contract-but-rejects-drones-surveillance-expansion/

CA- Berkeley — the first U.S. sanctuary city — reconsiders surveillance expansion with Flock Safety

https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/11/flock-safety-berkeley-sanctuary-city-contract/

CA- City of Vallejo recommends using sales tax funds for Flock license plate readers

https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-oversight-committee-recommends-using-sales-tax-funds-for-flock-license-plate-readers/

WA- City of Renton suspends Flock cameras again after public outcry

https://www.rentonreporter.com/2026/05/12/renton-suspends-flock-cameras-again-after-public-outcry/

World Privacy News

Israel’s deliberate destruction of civilian homes in Syria must be investigated as war crimes

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/05/syria-israels-deliberate-destruction-of-civilian-homes-in-quneitra-war-crime/

The silence of Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians is deafening

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/israel-palestinians-sexual-violence.html

Israeli PM Netanyahu Stresses The Need For More Propaganda

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/05/11/netanyahu-stresses-the-need-for-more-propaganda-as-israels-hasbara-budget-soars/

Israel to sue New York Times over article on rape of Palestinian detainees, Netanyahu says

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/israel-to-sue-new-york-times-over-article-on-rape-of-palestinian-detainees-netanyahu-says/ar-AA23c4Zx

Letting Israel participate in Eurovision ‘wrong from the beginning’

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/15/letting-israel-participate-in-eurovision-wrong-from-the-beginning-spains-culture-minister-

Drones are the leading cause of death in Sudan

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/05/turk-issues-high-alert-widening-sudan-conflict-amid-increased-use-drones

Jordan- Government grants legal status to Sanad Iris scanner digital IDs

https://jordantimes.com/news/local/sanad-digital-id-gains-full-legal-status-under-amended-civil-status-law

Swedish Government Wants to put Tracking Bracelets on Children as Young as 13

https://www.megastarmagazine.com/world-news/sweden-proposes-electronic-bracelets-for-children-at-risk-of-gang-recruitment/

European Union: Surveillance Technology Sold to Rights Violators

The 54-page report, “Looking the Other Way: EU Failure to Prevent Surveillance Exports to Rights Violators,” assesses how the EU’s landmark Dual-Use Regulation, adopted in 2021, is functioning in practice. The regulation was intended, in part, to prevent the export of dual-use technologies—those that may be used for both civilian and military purposes, including commercial surveillance technology—to places where they are likely to be used to violate international humanitarian or human rights law. But that goal is not being achieved because it is not being implemented effectively.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/12/european-union-surveillance-technology-sold-to-rights-violators

Global Digital Policy Roundup: April 2026

https://www.techpolicy.press/global-digital-policy-roundup-april-2026/

Russian official admits completely banning VPNs is ‘simply impossible’

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/russian-official-admits-completely-banning-vpns-is-simply-impossible

Russia- President Putin bans aides from wearing watches, fears they could be used for assassination

https://radaronline.com/p/putin-assassination-fears-bans-watches-private-meetings

Georgia- Government Detains Police Officers Over 2024 Protest Violence

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/georgia-detains-police-officers-over-2024-protest-violence

Germany- Government’s spy agency picks French AI firm ArgonOS over Palantir

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-spy-agency-picks-france-ai-firm-over-palantir/

Spain- Virgin Voyages Warns of 2-3 Hour EES Facial Recognition Delays at Barcelona Cruise Terminal

https://cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/2026/05/virgin-voyages-advises-guests-of-changes-to-eu-border-controls/

UK- Airports to use facial recognition e-Gates to ID kids as young as 8-years-old

https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/younger-children-will-be-able-to-use-e-gates-at-uk-airports


UK- Met police to use facial recognition at Tommy Robinson rally

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/met-police-facial-recognition-unite-west-protest-tommy-robinson-05z3w9mh8

UK- Met police use facial recognition to ID “Unite the Kingdom, Unite the West” protesters

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/met-police-facial-recognition-unite-west-protest-tommy-robinson-05z3w9mh8

UK- Met police use facial recognition to turn country into a police state: make 1 arrest every 35 minutes

https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-makes-one-arrest-every-35-minutes-during-live-facial-recognition-pilot-509256

UK- Peterborough police to deploy facial recognition in the center of the city

https://www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/peterborough-live-facial-recognition-police-city-centre-2/42773/

UK- IRONY: Police upset over government using AI to spy on officers

https://metfed.org.uk/news/mpf-statement-on-use-of-ai-to-monitor-police-officers

UK- The Error in Banning the Nakba Day March

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/05/14/the-error-in-banning-the-nakba-day-march/

IRL- Retired pastor, 78, convicted and fined for preaching Bible verse near hospital

https://www.foxnews.com/culture/retired-pastor-78-convicted-fined-preaching-bible-verse-near-northern-ireland-hospital

Singapore- Government to use vehicle facial recognition to ID everyone at Tuas checkpoint

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ica-to-tap-ai-to-streamline-applications-for-immigration-documents-like-passports

Israel- Government is expected to collapse over ultra-Orthodox military draft

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/g-s1-121631/israel-military-ultra-orthodox-netanyahu-coalition

AU- Government to Spend $654M to Expand National Digital ID System

https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/jim-chalmers-2022/media-releases/budget-boost-productivity-and-cut-regulatory-costs-10

NZ- Government survey reveals citizens are worried about police facial recognition

https://www.privacy.org.nz/assets/DOCUMENTS/2026-05-05-Privacy-Survey-2026-FINAL-A1185707-1.pdf

Canada- The RCMP Won’t Confirm Secret Police Pact With China

https://www.coastreporter.net/national-news/public-deserves-answers-on-canada-china-policing-agreement-new-democrat-mp-says-12272459

Canada- Human rights advocates sound alarm as court documents reveal extent Chinese police harassed Canadian residents

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/human-rights-advocates-sound-alarm-as-court-documents-reveal-extent-chinese-police-harassed-canadian-residents/

Canada- Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare

]]><![CDATA[U.S. News/Police Violence]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-170https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-170Mon, 18 May 2026 14:01:33 GMTTrump Poised To Pay Jan. 6 Rioters $1.7 Billion

The commission overseeing the compensation fund would have the total authority to hand out approximately $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration’s “weaponization” of the legal system, including the nearly 1,600 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack as well as potentially entities associated with President Trump himself.

https://abcnews.com/US/trump-poised-drop-irs-suit-launch-17b-weaponization/story?id=132962661

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23 days ago · 661 likes · 51 comments · Miles Taylor

Trump and administration officials address Christian Nationalism gathering on National Mall

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5825003/trump-christian-national-mall-prayer-service-250


Hegseth to headline faith rally with far-right and Christian nationalist speakers on National Mall

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/pete-hegseth-faith-rally-dc

Thousands Flock To National Mall For Christian Nationalism Prayer Rally With Vance, Hegseth And Rubio

https://apnews.com/article/trump-rededicate-america-250-prayer-gathering-e65950eac5f7aed8be529333cbd301b3

Trump’s Approval Rating Worse Than President Jimmy Carter’s

Mr. Trump’s approval rating — a key historical predictor of how a president’s party will fare in an election — has sunk to a second-term low in Times/Siena polls of 37 percent amid the deeply unpopular Middle East conflict.

https://archive.ph/Y2YyO

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnns-harry-enten-declares-trump-facing-worst-polls-ever-for-any-president-on-inflation-including-carter/

World Cup warns qualifying nations going to U.S. of human rights violations

World Cup qualifying Countries are being backed into a corner, human rights groups are concerned, and fans are considering traveling only to Canada or Mexico — or skipping the World Cup entirely — in order to avoid potential encounters with an administration that seems set on making an example out of foreigners. This is perhaps the “worst time for human rights in the United States, maybe since the Civil Rights Movement,” Jamil Dakwar, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program said.

https://archive.ph/h3SIH

DHS raids immigrant rights volunteers houses at 3 AM

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/courts/2026/05/13/immigration-group-vc-defensa-raids/90068667007/

Heart Gone Rogue: Hilary Licht
3am HSI Home Raid of Volunteers
Today at 11am many Rapid Response volunteers will be outside the Los Angeles courthouse, again. This time gathering to respond to the harassment, intimidation, and property damage HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) agents inflicted when they broke into the homes of two volunteers at 3am on 5/13/26…
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24 days ago · 4 likes · Heart Gone Rogue: Hilary Licht

Murder rates in major cities down by as much as 90 percent

“Murder in NYC is down nearly 90 percent relative to where it was through April 1990, it’s down more than 80 percent in Washington, DC, New Orleans, Detroit, and Los Angeles compared to the peak murder year in those cities, and down more than 70 percent in Philadelphia and Baltimore.”

Jeff-alytics
Appreciating Just How Far Murder Has Fallen in the US
I talk about US murder trends a ton which usually involves a lot of numbers. Oftentimes, focusing on the numbers means losing sight of just how much progress has been made over the last 35 years. But sometimes the scale of the decline from the peak number of murders to today gets lost on you. I was…
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a month ago · 23 likes · 8 comments · Jeff Asher


Cuba Unveils ‘Lego Resistance Front’ Video Decrying Trump Warmongering

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cuba-lego-video

Cuba has completely run out of fuel, blames Trump’s embargo

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/14/Cuba-says-oil-reserves-totally-drained/9311778746907/

Trump DOJ to unveil criminal charges against Raul Castro next Wednesday

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-plans-unveil-criminal-charges-against-raul-castro-next-wednesday-official-2026-05-15/

Indicting Raúl Castro could set up US military action in Cuba

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/05/16/raul-castro-cuba-indictment-trump-invasion-pressure/90098194007/

Trump DOJ to Use Terrorism Laws to Target Mexican Officials

https://archive.ph/2buVE

Parents of teens who break curfew in DC will be prosecuted

https://archive.ph/PaodP

Trump to Issue 250 Pardons to Mark America’s 250th Birthday

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/white-house-explores-250-pardons-to-mark-america-s-250th-birthday/ar-AA236VyP

Trump touted Palantir on Truth Social after buying the company’s stock
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/trump-palantir-stock-truth-social.html

Trump defends remark on ignoring Americans’ finances, say’s “I’d make it again”

“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation, I don’t think about anybody. That’s right. That’s a perfect statement. I’d make it again.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-defends-remark-on-ignoring-americans-finances-amid-economic-strain/gm-GMBBA9FBC5

Trump Remarks About Americans’ Financial Situation Reveal a Billionaire Out of Touch

https://archive.ph/ztiIV

The FBI Has Created a “Payback Squad” to Target Trump Foes

https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/fbi-kash-patel-trump-payback-squad-political-cases-james-comey-john-brennan

Trump Derangement Syndrome ‘actually is a disease,’ the president claims after a night of calling himself the ‘GOAT’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-derangement-syndrome-disease-b2974525.html

Elon Musk and Tim Cook Will Travel to China With Trump

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/nvidia-ceo-huang-not-going-to-china-during-trump-visit-source-says-2026-05-11/

Judge told Musk he wasn’t excused from trial. He went to China with Trump anyway

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/a-judge-told-musk-he-wasn-t-excused-from-trial-he-went-to-china-with-trump-anyway/ar-AA238mtZ

The list of people traveling to China with Trump

“The White House is inviting executives from large companies to accompany President Donald Trump on his trip to China...”

https://archive.ph/Y5aHv

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/12/jensen-huang-invite-trump-xi-summit-00918208

Donald Trump Takes Off For China With Son And Daughter-In-Law

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/donald-trump-takes-off-china-193821842.html

New York man found guilty in Chinese ‘secret police station’ case

https://www.courthousenews.com/jury-convicts-nyc-man-accused-of-running-secret-chinese-police-station-in-manhattan/

Trumps Sign Mega Tower Deal With Firm Tied to Sanctioned Pro-Putin Billionaire

The Trump Organization is expanding the first family’s already astonishing $2.7 billion property empire with Trump Tower Tbilisi, a luxury 70-story apartment complex set to become the tallest building in Georgia, a former Soviet republic at the far reaches of Eastern Europe.

https://archive.ph/eYvUE

Eric Trump Brags About Mega Tower Deal To Wrath Of Critics

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-trump-brags-about-new-lucrative-project-to-wrath-of-critics_n_6a02f35ae4b0b1a48de902b7

$1.5b Trump Tower Gold Coast Deal in Australia Collapses

https://archive.ph/lO3UT

Republicans Don’t Want To Talk About The DOJ Paying Trump $10 Billion

“One of the settlement terms under review is for the I.R.S. to drop any audits of the president, his family members and businesses.”

https://archive.ph/otDQz

Trump Wants A ‘Get Out Of IRS Audits’ Card

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/13/trump-already-has-his-get-out-of-jail-free-card-now-he-wants-a-get-out-of-irs-audits-card/

Trump’s Proposed ‘Golden Dome’ Estimated to Cost $1.2 Trillion

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/g-s1-121780/trumps-golden-dome-cost

Trump Admin Has 120,000 Pages of Documents on Ghislaine Maxwell’s Prison Transfer

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ghislaine-maxwell-trump-prison-transfer-foia/

Trump’s new Iran negotiator is Israeli lobbyist who denounced negotiations with Iran

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260506-trumps-new-iran-negotiator-is-israel-lobbyist-who-denounced-talks-with-tehran/

Judge overturns Trump’s sanctions on UN official who called for war crimes prosecutions over Gaza

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/13/francesca-albanese-gaza-israel-ruling-00920001

Miami Beach Commissioner Hired a Billboard Truck to Call Pro-Palestine Activists “Jew Hater”

https://archive.ph/oI7mX

President Trump’s Fourth Jewish Grandchild on the Way (2017)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/meet-the-jews-in-donald-trumps-inner-circle/

https://archive.ph/G1R7h

Trump’s Abrahamic Family Tree

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/donald-trumps-abrahamic-family-tree/

Trump named in newly found Epstein accusation that officials sat on for 17 years

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-epstein-2676900153/

The Pugilist with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Seventeen Years Ago, An Epstein Survivor Said Four New Mexico Politicians Knew About Epstein's Pedophilia and Child Sex Trafficking.
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23 days ago · 1939 likes · 182 comments · Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

House Democrats call on Howard Lutnick to resign as commerce secretary after Epstein interview

https://www.courthousenews.com/house-democrats-call-on-howard-lutnick-to-resign-as-commerce-secretary-after-epstein-interview/

Epstein friend Brock Pierce who ‘had a great time with the girls’ welcomed as VIP at Trump event

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676878840/

Fired FBI official: I was asked to take Trump loyalty pledge

https://www.aol.com/articles/fbi-veteran-claims-kash-patel-173044000.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/05/12/fbi-official-kash-patel/

ICE moving forward with warehouse detention plan despite lawsuits

https://archive.ph/ejrZ8

Trump to Label Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes Domestic Terrorists

Ken Klippenstein
New Counterterror Strategy Eyes Tucker Carlson
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25 days ago · 562 likes · 27 comments · Ken Klippenstein

Trump Administration: Anti-Fascists, Drug Dealers, And Trans People Are Terrorists

The White House’s “United States Counterterrorism Strategy,” masterminded by White House “counterterrorism czar” Sebastian Gorka, does not mention far-right violence at all. It identifies “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists” as a security threat of equal severity to “Legacy Islamist Terrorists” and “Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs.” The administration will now apparently “prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/14/trump-administration-anti-fascists-drug-dealers-and-trans-people-are-terrorists/

Trump Counterterrorism Strategy Expands Administration’s War on Activists and Non-Profits

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-counterterrorism-strategy-expands-administrations-war-on-progressives/

The Politically Motivated Indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-politically-motivated-indictment-of-southern-poverty-law-center

Trump’s Approval on Inflation Is Now Worse Than Biden’s Ever Was

https://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-approval-inflation-now-worse-bidens-ever-was

Trump Calls One Female Reporter ‘Dumb’ And Another ‘Stupid’ In A Matter Of Minutes

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-calls-one-female-reporter-dumb-and-another-stupid-in-a-matter-of-minutes_n_6a037533e4b0af4eda3efaa4


Trump’s unhinged ‘treason’ note about news outlets exposed

Donald Trump slapped a sticky note bearing the word “treason” on a pile of news clippings he personally handed to his acting attorney general—who’s reportedly now weighing investigations into the outlets that published them.

https://archive.ph/oTh6c

Trump DOJ Subpoenas News Outlets Over Iran War Coverage

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/politics/trump-doj-subpoenas-iran-war-leaks

https://www.commondreams.org/news/effort-to-stifle-and-intimidate-trump-doj-subpoenas-news-outlets-over-iran-war-coverage

Blanche says reporters who get classified information will “receive a subpoena”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/blanche-warns-doj-will-subpoena-reporters-who-receive-classified-information/ar-AA230r0V

NY judicial panel says a Trump attorney’s misconduct must be kept confidential

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/panel-finds-trump-appointed-prosecutor-committed-misconduct-keeps-details-secret/gm-GM606A6BAE

https://archive.ph/Ewuq4

Trump complains that groups trying to make the Mar-a-Lago report public ‘cast aspersions against’ his judges

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/did-not-read-this-circuits-rules-trump-complains-that-groups-trying-to-make-jack-smiths-mar-a-lago-report-public-cast-aspersions-against-judges-who-didnt-deliver/amp/

Migrant Insider
Stephen Miller Lied About Migrant Jobs Going to American Workers
WASHINGTON — The promise was simple, and Stephen Miller has been making it for years: clear out the undocumented workers, and American workers get their jobs back. The data is now in. The promise was a lie…
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a month ago · 81 likes · 1 comment · Pablo Manríquez

DHS’s Misleading Press Release Smears a Judge in Rhode Island

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/dhs-s-misleading-press-release-smears-a-u.s.-judge-in-rhode-island

Immigrants sue DHS for $5M over abusive military-style raid in Chicago

https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-immigration-raid-ice-dhs-fbi-federal-tort-claims

DHS’s Flawed Defense of Home Invasion Based on Administrative Warrants

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/dhs-s-flawed-defense-of-home-invasion-based-on-administrative-warrants

Trump administration celebrates Border Patrol’s one year without releasing a single person

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/05/15/trump-administration-delivers-full-year-zero-releases-border

ICE Agents Have List of 20M People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir

https://archive.ph/PglA9

ICE may be at World Cup matches in U.S.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/soccer/ice-may-world-cup-matches-us-rcna344797

Trump’s new DHS Secretary says FEMA coordinating with federal, state, local law enforcement over FIFA World Cup

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20260506/fema-actively-coordinating-federal-state-local-and-private-sector-partners

Lawmakers sound alarm on ICE ‘ghost flights,’ missing aviation data

https://fedscoop.com/faa-ice-aviation-data-ghost-flight/

Vassar students advised to use encrypted apps like Signal for anti-ICE organizing

https://www.campusreform.org/article/vassar-students-advised-use-encrypted-apps-like-signal-anti-ice-organizing/29835

ICE Is Counting on Our Silence

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ice-wants-silence

ICE violently arrested a US citizen and filmed it ‘like a documentary’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/ice-us-citizen-violent-arrest-documentary

Infected tooth led to death of man in ICE custody in Arizona

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/14/infected-tooth-led-death-man-ice-custody-arizona-medical-examiner-says/

ICE official who worked at private prison firm GEO Group will be agency’s new acting head

Migrant Insider
The Man Who Built the Cages Now Runs the Agency
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24 days ago · 82 likes · 3 comments · Pablo Manríquez

GAO Report Confirms Persistent Sexual Abuse Crisis in Federal Prisons

https://davisvanguard.org/2026/05/sexual-abuse-federal-prisons/

https://www.gao.gov/blog/heinous-crimes-haunting-federal-prisons-rape-and-sexual-abuse

Conditions at NJ ICE facility are meant to ‘break people’

https://gothamist.com/news/conditions-at-nj-ice-facility-are-meant-to-break-people-us-rep-says-after-visit

People Are Calling 911—Only to End Up in ICE’s Clutches

https://newrepublic.com/post/210244/people-call-911-ice-arrest

Trump-appointed judge reverses stance over ICE’s indefinite detention policy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-appointed-judge-reverses-stance-after-11th-circuit-ice-ruling/gm-GM3C1FD907

ACLU Applauds U.S. Appellate Court Decision on Holding Immigrants Without Bond Is Illegal

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-applauds-u-s-appellate-court-decision-upholding-detained-immigrants-right-to-bond-hearings

MA police departments and courts maintain flow of information to ICE officials

“In court houses, jails and houses of correction and in police departments, people are making calls to ICE,” criminal defense attorney Carl Williams said. “We know that. All the undocumented community knows that.”

https://flipsidenews.net/police-courts-maintain-flow-of-information-to-ice-officials/

ICE activity is increasing in Maine

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/05/11/ice-activity-is-increasing-in-maine-immigration-rights-advocates-warn/

NYPD commissioner insists cops don’t work with ICE on civil immigration enforcement

https://nypost.com/2026/05/12/us-news/nypds-tisch-insists-cops-dont-work-with-feds-on-civil-immigration-enforcement/

‘Disgusting’ NYPD, ICE interaction becomes issue in race to succeed Rep. Velazquez

https://gothamist.com/news/disgusting-nypd-ice-interaction-becomes-issue-in-race-to-succeed-rep-velazquez

White House pressing ICE for updates on facial recognition glasses

https://fedscoop.com/ice-smart-glasses-wearable-identity-verification-technology/

ICE awards Iris scanning contract to Bi2 Technologies

https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/177f36f262d44d9ab89f08b0cfba76eb/view

DHS Surveillance (Bi2 Technologies, ClearView AI and Palantir) Crosses Dangerous Line Into Tracking Americans

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-ai-surveillance-tracking-americans/

DHS awards Cellebrite 5 year $100M contract

https://fedscoop.com/dhs-cellebrite-privacy-drones-data-mobile-devices-ice/

EFF to Appeals Court: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
https://www.eff.org/document/2025-10-28-belmonte-cardozo-4th-cir-amicus-brief

At this year’s Border Security Expo, the most insidious surveillance tools were the ones you couldn’t see

https://www.theverge.com/report/928726/border-security-expo-cbp-ice-dhs-surveillance

https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/tech-from-border-security-expo-2026-unveiled-to-newsnation-bradley-on-the-border/

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/05/14/companies-are-making-big-bucks-from-immigration-crackdowns

https://www.theborderchronicle.com/spectacle-becomes-reality-observations-from-this-years-border-security-expo/

Border Security Expo’s cameras, drones and AI tech could make their way to local police

https://www.kjzz.org/the-show/2026-05-08/border-security-expos-cameras-drones-and-ai-tech-could-make-their-way-to-local-police

ID.me and Verisys to force people on Medicare or Medicaid to use their digital ID

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/idme-and-verisys-partner-to-deliver-end-to-end-provider-identity-and-credentialing-solution-to-state-medicaid-agencies-302770301.html

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to use IDEMIA to ID commercial truck drivers

“The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is reminding motor carriers that several legacy systems will be taken offline on Thursday night as the agency transitions to the next-generation Motus system, run by IDEMIA.”

https://www.trucknews.com/transportation/are-you-ready-for-fmcsas-new-motus-registration-system/1003214919/

Schriever Space Force Base accepting bids for facial, Iris and fingerprint scanners

https://govtribe.com/opportunity/federal-contract-opportunity/biometric-collection-system-fa255026q0017

Reveal Technology announces “Identifi” facial recognition/Iris and fingerprint software for smartphones

“Identifi can be deployed on any Android device, making it easy to adopt for users already carrying an array of heavy equipment.”

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/reveal-technology-announces-identifi-adoption-as-program-of-record-for-ussocom-tactical-biometrics-302770183.html

Meta’s smart glasses will remember people’s faces, secretly record conversations and remember where you put your keys

https://nypost.com/2026/05/11/business/ai-takes-metas-ray-ban-display-glasses-to-the-next-level

https://www.meta.com/ai-glasses/meta-ray-ban-display/

Judge rules Jewish DA must step aside from anti-Israel protester case

https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-da-ordered-to-recuse-from-stanford-vandalism-trial/

Democrats cry foul over top Senate Republican Grassley’s role in DOJ deals with fired FBI agents

https://www.courthousenews.com/democrats-cry-foul-over-top-senate-republicans-role-in-doj-deals-with-fired-fbi-agents/

How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions

https://theconversation.com/how-ai-can-lead-to-false-arrests-and-wrongful-convictions-281102

Replica ‘Knight Rider’ car on display at museum gets hit with speeding ticket

https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/05/11/kitt-car-from-famous-tv-series-cited-for-speeding-in-new-york-despite-being-on-display-in-volo-museum/

Flock Safety cameras tore this the town of Troy apart and led to a state of emergency

https://archive.ph/YctE2

Cook County Sheriff’s Department uses BriefCam and Flock Safety cameras to create huge surveillance network
https://chicagoreader.com/news/reader-investigative-reports/ccso-briefcam-flock-alpr-ai-jail/

Cook County Sheriff’s Flock Safety camera deal draws opposition, surveillance cameras delayed

https://archive.ph/1TBgg

2 Michigan cops threaten to quit over vote to stop using Flock Safety license plate readers

Good riddance!

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2026/05/11/clawson-police-threaten-to-quit-over-license-plate-readers/89980357007/

Lowe’s and Home Depot could start spying on you using Flock Safety license plate readers

https://nypost.com/2026/05/12/business/lowes-home-depot-could-start-spying-on-you-using-license-plate-readers/

Dallas Transit cops unveil a new 24/7 surveillance substation

“The new Harrisburg substation, located at 7003 Harrisburg Blvd., sits adjacent to the Magnolia Park Transit Center. Officials say the facility will serve as a permanent base for METRO Police, allowing for 24/7 patrol coverage and improved response times for the surrounding community and commuters.”

https://www.dart.org/about/news-and-events/newsreleases/newsrelease-detail/dart-takes-bold-action-to-strengthen-public-safety-with-expanded-security-presence-and-mental-health-response

BS WARNING: North Carolina police claim Flock cameras stop acts of mass violence

https://www.wxii12.com/article/north-carolina-flock-camera-surveillance-crime-fighting-law-enforcement-policing/71233667

BS Warning: Flock Safety explains drone technology amid privacy concerns in Oakland County

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/flock-safety-explains-drone-pilot-program-oakland-county/

Homeland Security’s mission is to create a nationwide police drone surveillance network

“As drones become a permanent fixture in our airspace, front-line responders must have the right C-UAS tools for the mission,” Alice Hong, NUSTL laboratory director, said. The National Urban Security Technology Laboratory is a federal laboratory organized within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate. Located in New York City, NUSTL is the only national laboratory focused exclusively on supporting the capabilities of state and local first responders to address the homeland security mission.

https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2026/05/07/st-highlights-counter-drone-purchasing-tool-support-c-uas-program-executive-office

Milwaukee police surveillance drones raise new questions about privacy

https://www.milwaukeemag.com/police-drones-milwaukee/

San Bernadino cops to use drones to spy on people lighting fireworks

https://archive.ph/9J53Z

Lewisville police unveil drone as first responder surveillance program

https://dentonrc.com/news/lewisville/lewisville-police-department-s-new-drones-can-soar-to-a-scene-with-goal-of-boosting/article_8e05c1fb-4ce6-4cec-ae5a-0c7a2e96661a.html

Bensalem police unveil drone as first responder surveillance program

https://www.aol.com/news/bensalem-police-deploy-drone-first-025400025.html

CVS unveils new “Air Response” medical surveillance drone delivery network

https://www.dronezon.com/latest-uavs-news-drone-uses-research-innovation/

Papa John’s unveils new surveillance drone delivery network

https://wing.com/news/wing-papa-johns-fresh-hot-drone-deliveries

Police Violence

Ex-DOJ official goes public with blistering criticism of his former bosses

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/14/nx-s1-5802959/doj-trump-doj-todd-blanche-jan-6-capitol-riot

Trump Election Denier Tina Peters Granted Clemency By Colorado Governor

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5690286/tina-peters-polis-commutation-trump

DOJ sues DC’s attorney disciplinary authorities for recommending a Trump ally be disbarred

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/14/politics/doj-sues-dc-disciplinary-board

‘Sundown town’ Clark Township police targeted Black and Hispanic drivers after dark

January’s lawsuit by the NJ Attorney General’s Office likened Clark Township to a “sundown town” where Black people were unwelcome after dark. It detailed a slew of racial slurs by mayor, Sal Bonaccorso and police brass, and charged the former mayor directed the department to “keep chasing the spooks out of town” by aggressively pulling over drivers of color.

https://www.nj.com/union/2026/05/sundown-town-targeted-black-drivers-after-dark-state-says-timing-could-end-nj-lawsuit.html

The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE anniversary

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-largely-forgotten-history-of-philadelphias-police-bombing-of-black-organization-move

The Salmon River Central School District held disabled Native American children in wooden boxes

“Local school officials later confirmed that at least two boxes had been built and used by staff in November and December of 2025. That disclosure sent more shockwaves through this region of small Upstate New York towns just south of the U.S.-Canada border, which includes the sprawling St. Regis Mohawk Reservation.”

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/14/nx-s1-5821682/salmon-river-mohawk-children

13 NH cops shot at man before he died by suicide

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-05-10/ag-thirteen-police-officers-shot-at-raymond-man-before-he-died-by-suicide

Kansas cop on domestic violence intervention unit arrested for domestic violence

https://www.kake.com/home/wichita-police-officer-arrested-for-domestic-violence-in-bel-aire/article_ca0dbf61-38d0-4b71-afb3-b70bf2e1b472.html

Michigan judge avoids jail time in super drunk case, sentenced to probation

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/05/13/federal-judge-tom-ludington-sentenced-in-super-drunk-driving-case/89975593007/

CT judge orders Mayor Elicker to stop speaking about an ongoing wrongful-conviction trial

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/05/13/judge-orders-mayor-to-court-over-settlement-comment/

West VA prosecutor pleads guilty to 5 counts of identify theft in online gambling case

https://wchstv.com/news/local/former-wva-federal-prosecutor-charged-with-identify-theft-in-online-gambling-case

Vermont prosecutor who arrived at courthouse drunk, pleads not guilty of DUI

https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/12/grand-isle-prosecutor-pleads-not-guilty-to-dui-charge/

America’s legal system rests on a foundational delusion: that ordinary people can understand the laws and legal documents

“Nearly all areas of United States law meaningfully and unambiguously require legal documents to be understandable and yet accept that these documents are not understandable. The legal system accepts a culture of expects difficult-to-understand documents.”

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6590200

Anthropic expands Claude’s AI tools for law firms, lawyers

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/anthropic-expands-claudes-ai-tools-law-firms-lawyers-2026-05-12/

Anthropic Is Building a Legal Tech Ecosystem in Claude

https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2026/05/13/anthropic-is-building-a-legal-tech-ecosystem-in-claude-can-companies-adapt

Can AI replicate an army of associates? These lawyers are betting their new firm on it

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/can-ai-replace-an-army-of-associates-these-lawyers-are-betting-their-new-firm-on-it/

‘We Need to Hammer Them’: How Lorain Police Chief Took Parking Enforcement to the Extreme

“The foundation for these actions was laid in 2008, when the Lorain City Council took the extraordinary step of criminalizing parking violations, which are civil infractions in most other parts of the state and country.”

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/14/lorain-parking-tickets-judges-suspensions

YAWN: Colorado General Assembly Reins in Policing for Profit

“With near-unanimous bipartisan support, the Colorado General Assembly this week passed HB26-1250, a civil forfeiture reform bill that closes a longstanding loophole in Colorado law allowing property to be forfeited without a criminal conviction. The bill also makes Colorado one of the first states in the nation to grant forfeiture defendants the right to an attorney in civil cases.”

https://ij.org/colorado-general-assembly-reins-in-policing-for-profit/

CO Children Describe ‘Despair, Loneliness, and Boredom’ at Juvenile Detention Centers

https://www.aclu.org/news/juvenile-justice/children-describe-despair-loneliness-and-boredom-at-colorado-juvenile-detention-centers

An Alabama Mom Delivered a Preterm Baby in a Jail Cell. She Says Staff Refused To Help

https://reason.com/2026/05/15/an-alabama-mom-delivered-a-preterm-baby-in-a-jail-cell-she-says-staff-refused-to-help/

Are ‘teen takeovers’ a real threat? Podcast

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/13/nx-s1-5818465/kristin-henning-teen-takeovers-threat-dangerous

Man who spent 16 YEARS in Rikers Island in solitary confinement writes about abuses
https://inquest.org/a-certain-darkness/

NYC To Renew Rikers Island Securus Technologies Phone Deal Amid Surveillance Concerns

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/12/rikers-island-securus-ai-ice-surveillance/

NY Correction Commission Expands Amid Systemic Abuse

https://katalcenter.org/2026/05/release-the-scoc-is-expanded-from-three-to-five-members/

NYPD chief transferred for stealing time, pays back thousands of dollars for hours never worked

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/05/13/nypd-chief-transferred-for-stealing-time-pays-back-thousands-of-dollars-for-hours-never-worked/

Mother says son fears police after NYPD officer kept on job over killing his dad

https://gothamist.com/news/mother-says-son-fears-police-after-nypd-officer-kept-on-job-in-bronx-shooting-case

Despite Court Order, NYPD Failed to Properly Monitor Stop-and-Frisks

“A ProPublica investigation last year found that the NYPD’s Community Response Team had often sidestepped oversight as it went after so-called quality-of-life issues, such as unlicensed motorbikes and ATVs. The team’s tactics, including high-speed car chases, and its opaque operations disturbed some NYPD officials, but the unit expanded significantly amid the support of then-Mayor Eric Adams.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-community-response-team-stop-frisk-reviews

Driving While Black and Brown: The Case for Banning Racially Biased Traffic Stops in Sacramento

https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/sacpretextstops/

Innocent MA man who spent 34 years in prison for murder sues

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/man-sues-state-over-34-years-he-spent-prison-murder-he-didnt-commit

HORRIFYING: Alabama AG invents new arguments to explain away DNA, presses ahead with death sentence

https://www.al.com/news/2026/04/alabama-invents-new-arguments-to-explain-away-dna-presses-ahead-with-death-sentence.html

Family of Black motorist Ronald Greene murdered by Louisiana cops in 2019 traffic stop reaches $4.8M settlement

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/family-black-motorist-killed-2019-traffic-stop-reaches-48-million-settlement-2026-05-13/

Colorado woman wrongfully convicted of murder seeks $830K

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/04/29/colorado-exoneration-act-wrongful-conviction-acadia-lyn-darr/

Colorado jury awards record $24M to man wrongfully arrested in Parker case

https://www.cpr.org/2026/05/12/douglas-county-parker-24-million-civil-rights-verdict/

BS WARNING: Colorado transit police use copper wire thefts to justify increased officer patrols

https://www.rtd-denver.com/community/news/2026/transit-police-launch-bus-and-rail-impact-team-to-patrol-hot-spots

Judge’s dissenting opinion on cop granted immunity for spying through a 1 inch gap in a curtain

Appeals Court Judge Nancy Moritz’s dissenting opinion: “This court has missed its opportunity to correct a significant and unwarranted erosion of Fourth Amendment protections. The officer in this case placed his face so close to a motel room’s window that he could peer through a one-inch gap in the curtains and view the entire room. But individuals who close their curtains have an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in what lies behind them. That there was a one-inch gap between the curtains here is by no means determinative—who among us has not struggled to get curtains perfectly closed? And peeping through small gaps in curtains (or similar gaps in bathrooms stalls, tent flaps, or apartment blinds) is grossly inconsistent with societal norms. The court’s myopic focus on so-called plain view ignores that there was nothing “plain” about the view that the officer obtained here.”

https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/files/opinions/010111433451.pdf

MI Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Man Spends 13 Hours in Vomit and Dies in Jail

https://reason.com/2026/05/14/cops-get-qualified-immunity-after-michigan-man-spends-13-hours-in-vomit-and-dies-in-jail/

TX police chief charged with DWI after multiple wrecks in Waco

https://www.kwtx.com/2026/05/14/mart-police-chief-shane-james-charged-dwi-wreck-waco/

BS WARNING: CA police chief placed on paid leave after leaving scene of hit-and-run claims she had a medical emergency

https://www.ktvu.com/news/san-leandro-police-chief-angela-averiett-denies-hit-run

CA deputy arrested, accused of sexual battery while on duty

https://abc30.com/post/fresno-county-deputy-arrested-accused-sexual-battery-duty/19100583/

FL cop arrested for DUI

https://www.fox13news.com/news/tampa-police-officer-arrested-driving-under-influence-tpd

Off-duty VA cop faces 4 felonies after holding 2 at gunpoint after crashing into parked cruiser

https://www.pilotonline.com/2026/05/14/charges-against-poquoson-officer

AL cop arrested for sending obscene video to a minor

https://www.waff.com/2026/05/13/former-sheffield-police-officer-arrested-sending-obscene-images-minor/

AL cop charged with criminal trespassing

https://www.fox10tv.com/2026/05/11/chickasaw-police-officer-charged-with-criminal-trespassing/

]]><![CDATA[U.S. Privacy And World Privacy News]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-2f5https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-2f5Tue, 12 May 2026 14:02:46 GMT

Pentagon to use AWS, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Reflection, Oracle and SpaceX to Help Them Kill People

https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/05/pentagon-will-never-again-rely-single-ai-provider-official-says/413399/

Microsoft, Google, xAI security test details deleted from US government website

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/microsoft-google-xai-security-test-details-deleted-us-government-website-2026-05-11/

Republican TN state Rep. Todd Warne wore a Trump cape into a legislative session

https://www.rawstory.com/maga-leader-forced-to-remove-trump-cape-as-gop-lawmakers-push-redistricting-in-red-state/

Ted Cruz Admits Trump Accounts Are Designed to Privatize Social Security Over Time

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ted-cruz-privatize-social-security

Free Signal Guide

Guy Kawasaki has written a book: Everybody Has Something to Hide: Why and How to Use Signal to Preserve Your Privacy, Security, and Well-Being.

https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal

The White House app is a a tracking and security nightmare

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2026/05/a-security-researcher-decompiled-the-white-house-app-what-they-found-is-pretty-alarming.html

White House Rages at Star Wars Icon Mark Hamill for Sharing Image of Dead Trump in a Grave

https://www.mediaite.com/online/one-sick-individual-white-house-rages-at-star-wars-icon-mark-hamill-for-sharing-image-of-dead-trump-in-a-grave/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-calls-mark-hamill-sick-after-actor-posts-trump-gravesite-image-2026-05-07/

A GA data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988

Supreme Court temporarily restores access to abortion pill mifepristone

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-05-04/supreme-court-restores-access-to-abortion-pill-mifepristone-through-telehealth-mail-and-pharmacies

FBI searches office of Virginia Democrat who helped lead redistricting push

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna343879

Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down New Congressional Map That Favors Democrats

https://virginiamercury.com/2026/05/08/supreme-court-of-virginia-strikes-down-redistricting-amendment-keeps-current-maps-in-place/

11 House seats move to GOP’s favor after major redistricting wins for Trump, could win 14 seats

https://www.wisn.com/article/republican-redistricting-edge-widens-democratic-setback-virginia/71258539

Read Testimony Heard by the Trump Grand Jury in Fulton County

The grand jury transcripts offer the most detailed insight yet into the evidence that Willis’s office would have presented against Trump and his co-defendants had the case reached trial. Among the documents published today are transcripts of testimony given by Lindsey Graham, the senior senator from South Carolina; Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state who refused Trump’s entreaties to “find” 11,780 votes; Brian Kemp, the Georgia governor who refused Trump’s request to convene a special legislative session to reconsider the state’s election results; and Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City who was indicted alongside Trump.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/testimony-heard-by-the-trump-grand-jury-in-fulton-county

Trump DOJ Seeks The Names Of 2020 Election Workers In Georgia’s Fulton County

https://apnews.com/article/2020-georgia-election-worker-names-trump-2c4bc764855341a0c9eedb135d25591e

Judge Appointed by Trump Rules: DOJ Can Keep 2020 Election Ballots Seized From Georgia’s Fulton County

https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-fulton-county-fbi-ballots-1c425a1d1d04bf4ea2178c2a5443f2e9

‘Colluding in Broad Daylight’: Trump Praises Louisiana Governor for Suspending Elections

https://www.commondreams.org/news/louisiana-governor-suspends-elections

CA Sheriff and GOP Governor Candidate ‘Very Proud’ Of Affiliation With Far-Right Militia

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-governor-candidate-very-proud-of-affiliation-with-far-right-militia_n_69fb505ae4b0bd66244e7a85

Trump-backed challengers defeat Indiana senators who blocked redistricting push

https://www.wfyi.org/statewide/2026-05-05/trump-backed-challengers-defeat-indiana-senators-who-blocked-redistricting-push

Supreme Court voting rights ruling ignites redistricting war across Southern states

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blockbuster-supreme-court-voting-rights-ruling-ignites-redistricting-war-across-southern-states

NY Post reveals Republican plan to add 14 seats following last week’s Supreme Court ruling

https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/us-news/redistricting-after-scotus-decision-could-give-gop-edge-in-midterms/

Trump surgeon general pick sparks backlash, splits MAHA movement

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-surgeon-general-pick-sparks-backlash-splits-maha-movement

Trump to Spend TikTok Settlement Money on D.C. ‘Beautification’

https://abcnews.com/US/trump-administration-eyeing-400m-settlement-tiktok-dc-beautification/story?id=132707914

Judge rules Trump administration’s (DOGE) cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/politics/doge-judge-cancellation-grants-unconstitutional-hnk

Try Not To Laugh: Judge will not rubber-stamp Elon Musk settlement with SEC

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-will-not-rubber-stamp-elon-musk-settlement-with-sec-2026-05-08/

DISGUSTED: Trump moves to freeze paying $83M to E Jean Carroll

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-moves-to-freeze-paying-83-million-to-e-jean-carroll-11917197


Trump’s World Liberty to Get Legal Cover From New Crypto Law

https://sites.duke.edu/thefinregblog/2026/05/08/is-wlfi-an-unregistered-security/

U.S. Treasury Considers Allowing Billionaires To Donate Stock To Trump Accounts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/05/06/stocks-trump-accounts-billionaires/89959485007/

Palm Beach County signs off on controversial Trump airport trademark deal

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article315644211.html

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Trump’s role as LIV Golf host renews scrutiny over conflicts of interest

“Several ethics experts who spoke to CNN say they are wary of Trump hosting these golf tournaments at his properties because there is little transparency around how much financial compensation his family is obtaining. The president’s assets are in a trust managed by his children, and Trump has said he wouldn’t be involved in running his business during his time in office.”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/10/politics/trump-golf-courses-conflict-of-interest

Trump Family Sucked Into Legal Battle With Billionaire Suing Them for ‘Extortion’

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/trump-family-sucked-legal-battle-170123393.html


Trumps’ Companies Are Losing Millions of Dollars on Bitcoin

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/donald-trump-eric-trump-crypto-bitcoin/

FDA vaccine studies censored by Trump admin after finding benefits of shots

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/trump-admin-censors-more-studies-conflicting-with-rfk-jr-s-anti-vaccine-views/

Musk Partners With Anthropic, a Company He’s Called ‘Evil’

https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex

Anthropic Adds More Religions to Claude

https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-ethics-religion-roundtable-053a44133c64703f83fd50c9ee6124ea

Apple Reaches $250M Settlement Over Claims Siri Misled People

https://gizmodo.com/apple-settles-alleged-false-advertising-suit-over-ai-powered-siri-2000752474

Meta spars with Oregon shooting suspect over social media privacy before state Supreme Court

https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-spars-with-oregon-shooting-suspect-over-social-media-privacy-before-state-supreme-court/

Meta and TikTok Are Getting Your Data From State Healthcare Sites

https://gizmodo.com/meta-and-tiktok-are-getting-your-data-from-state-healthcare-sites-report-2000754335

State Healthcare Sites Are Sharing Personal Data With Big Tech

“The Washington exchange sent applicants’ sex and citizenship responses to TikTok, as well as some race data that the tracker failed to filter out. Virginia’s tool to estimate premiums sent ZIP codes to Meta Platforms Inc. In New York, the marketplace shared the pages applicants visited during enrollment with TikTok, Meta, Snap Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s LinkedIn, including when they provided details about incarcerated family members.”

https://archive.ph/71jDM

Google using Chrome to install AI files without permission

https://gizmodo.com/google-chrome-is-downloading-a-4gb-ai-model-onto-your-device-without-consent-researcher-warns-2000755201


General Motors fined $12.75M for selling CA drivers info. to data brokers

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/gm-pay-1275-million-settle-california-driver-privacy-probe-2026-05-08/

Second judge maintains DOJ can’t search data seized from Post reporter

https://archive.ph/hRGGv

FCC Wants Your ID, Name and Address Before You Get a Phone Number

FCC commissioners unanimously passed a measure to strengthen telecom companies’ “Know Your Customer” requirements for verifying callers’ identities. Among the potential solutions being considered are requiring telecoms to verify a customer’s name, address, government ID and alternative phone numbers prior to enabling their service.

https://cyberscoop.com/fcc-know-your-customer-supply-chain-security-rules/

Appeals Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/court-strikes-down-fcc-anti-discrimination-rule-opposed-by-internet-providers/

If the FCC succeeds in weaponizing Jimmy Kimmel’s joke then other networks will be afraid to joke about Trump

https://slate.com/business/2026/04/disney-jimmy-kimmel-brendan-carr-fcc.html

Bootlicking FCC chairman Brendan Carr is back at it

https://freedom.press/issues/bootlicking-brendans-back-at-it/

ABC News Pushes Back Against Trump’s FCC Attack on Free Press

https://www.commondreams.org/news/abc-news-fcc-filing

ABC argues Trump administration is trying to chill free speech

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/09/nx-s1-5816844/abc-trump-administration-free-speech

FTC bans data broker Kochava from selling sensitive cellphone location info

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/ftc-ban-kochava-subsidiary-selling-sensitive-location-data-settle-charges-they-sold-location-data


Canvas System Data Breach Exposed 275M Students Personal Info

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/07/us/canvas-hack-strands-college-students-finals-week

Dropbox Data Disclosure to Feds Did Not Violate Fourth Amendment: Appeals Court

https://verdict.news/circuit/seventh-circuit-dropbox-data-disclosure-to-feds-di-019dfa4e

Your Smart TV Records Everything You Watch And Much More

https://slate.com/technology/2026/05/tv-apps-smartphone-data-privacy.html

Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pennsylvania-sues-character-ai-says-chatbot-poses-doctors-2026-05-05/

The New Wild West of AI Kids’ Toys

https://archive.ph/mPH6d

More than half of federal agencies now planning agentic AI pilots

https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/05/survey-more-half-federal-agencies-now-planning-agentic-ai-pilots/413324/

NTSB Wants Breathalyzers in School Buses and Renews Call for Student Seat Belts

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20260423.aspx

CT to turn Interstate 84 into a Big Brother Surveillance highway

https://www.ctinsider.com/politics/article/ct-transportation-flex-lane-bills-camera-fines-dot-22245239.php

$5K smart bed told a reporters spouse to drink alcohol nightly

https://archive.ph/9a5CE

Chines-made Yarbo lawn mowers can be easily hacked anywhere in the world

https://www.theverge.com/tech/925696/yarbo-robot-lawn-mower-hack-remote-control-camera-access-mqtt

Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filings Increased 42% Under Trump

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/april-commercial-chapter-11-bankruptcy-192300728.html

State & Local Privacy News

MA- Supreme Court: Noncitizens Facing Deportation May Withdraw Pleas Over Defective Immigration Warnings

https://verdict.news/state/massachusetts-supreme-judicial-court-noncitizens-f-019e048e

MA- State Supreme Court whether Quincy police and fire dept. saint statues violate religious freedom laws

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/05/06/quincy-police-fire-statues-religious-freedom

MA- You could get a speeding ticket without police seeing you, if new traffic camera bill passes

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/traffic-camera-enforcement-bill-massachusetts-speeding/

MA- Senate budget would overhaul sheriff funding, who overspend their budgets annually

https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2026-05-05/mass-senate-budget-would-overhaul-sheriff-funding-and-make-canceling-subscriptions-easier

MA- Lawmakers vowed more transparency. Bills still quietly die.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/05/metro/legislature-transparency-loophole-committee-votes/

MA- ‘We don’t want to make donations more expensive’: Nonprofits decry income tax ballot question

https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2026-05-04/we-dont-want-to-make-donations-more-expensive-mass-nonprofits-decry-income-tax-ballot-question

MA- Andover Town Meeting Rejects Cops’ E-Bike Registry Proposal

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2026/05/05/andover-town-meeting-rejects-cops-e-bike-registry-proposal

MA- 3.7M residents have obtained their REAL ID

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-05-06/state-says-3-7-million-mass-residents-have-obtained-their-real-id

CT House Passes Law Banning Sale Of Location Data

https://www.ctpost.com/politics/article/ct-one-stop-data-deletion-system-bill-22240311.php

CT- New law bans cops from sharing Flock Safety license plate data with ICE

https://www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/article/ct-flock-license-plate-camera-immigration-22240210.php

NY- Troy city council to introduce new Flock Safety camera legislation (DA and cops are pissed)

https://www.troyrecord.com/2026/05/05/troy-city-council-to-introduce-new-alpr-legislation/

NJ- General Assembly Passes Biometric Surveillance Bill

https://legiscan.com/NJ/text/A3929/id/3337484

NJ- Lawmakers propose guardrails to limit use of license plate reader data

https://www.70and73.com/news/state-lawmakers-propose-guardrails-to-limit-use-of-license-plate-reader-data-especially-over-several/article_c7db01a3-7d5b-4032-bdd8-f9abc05e6f8e.html

NC- Beach police to use Bolawrap on beachgoers

https://ir.wrap.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/401/wrap-expands-domestic-adoption-of-non-lethal-response

NC- Family asked to pay for dead loved one’s NC Quick Pass toll debt

https://www.wral.com/consumer/5onyourside/toll-highway-quick-pass-money-debt-dispute-fee-raleigh-dead-fee-may-2026

VA- Curtis Whateley defends anti-cop (FTP&ATF) license plate at Appeals Court

https://www.courthousenews.com/virginia-driver-defends-anti-cop-license-plate-at-fourth-circuit/

VA- ‘No such thing as a fool proof database’: Expert breaks down Flock cameras after Richmond police violation

https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/richmond/expert-license-plate-cameras-police-violation/


VA- Sohaib Akhter found guilty of deleting 96 government databases

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-jury-convicts-virgina-man-charges-relating-deletion-us-government-databases

OH- Central Ohio police departments have spent nearly $2M on Flock license plate cameras

https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2026-04-28/central-ohio-police-departments-have-spent-nearly-2-million-on-flock-cameras

OH- Community voices frustrations amid Flock camera data sharing investigation

https://www.whio.com/news/local/community-voices-frustrations-amid-flock-camera-data-sharing-investigation/3T3NMH532JBD3CEIS7LGITWDQA/

OH- BS WARNING: Cleveland officials say Flock cameras secure after Dayton ditches system

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/05/cleveland-says-flock-cameras-secure-after-dayton-ditches-system-following-data-breach.html

IL- Alton police to expand Flock Safety camera network

https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/alton-camera-network-part-of-police-success/article_fbc42080-6bc0-45fc-9746-998cb18c7670.html

IL- Court Outlines Limits of Biometric Privacy Exemption

https://www.legalnewsline.com/cook-county-record/govt-contracts-don-t-shield-companies-from-biometrics-class-actions-court/article_50a2f88c-bfea-4a19-915c-2a11bb845dcd.html

WI- City of Appleton says police will stop using Flock cameras after two cops used it to track women

https://fox11online.com/news/local/appleton-flock-cameras-police-department-license-plate-tracking-mayor-jake-woodford-common-council

WI- The city of Green Bay says Flock cameras are staying in the city

https://wtaq.com/2026/05/07/green-bay-says-flock-cameras-are-staying-in-the-city/

WI- The Monona police pause Flock license-plate reader renewal

https://citizenportal.ai/articles/7848567/wisconsin/dane-county/monona/monona-police-pause-flock-license-plate-reader-renewal-amid-community-concerns

TX- Grayson County Sheriff’s Office seeks grant to expand Flock Safety cameras

https://www.kxii.com/2026/05/05/grayson-county-sheriffs-office-seeks-grant-target-vehicle-theft-with-new-technology/

CO- New Bill Would Ticket Drivers Going 6 MPH Over The Speed Limit

https://www.carscoops.com/2026/04/colorado-speed-camera-bill/

UT- The Park City Police and Summit County Sheriff’s Office say they don’t share Flock Safety camera data with ICE

https://www.parkrecord.com/2026/05/05/park-city-police-summit-county-sheriffs-office-say-they-do-not-share-camera-data-with-ice/

NV- Churchill County Sheriff’s Office installs Motorola license plate reader near Walmart

https://mynews4.com/news/local/alpr-camera-installed-near-walmart-in-churchill-county

CA- San Diego privacy board seeks more police surveillance oversight (Flock Safety’s Nova platform)

https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2026/05/07/san-diego-privacy-board-flock-nova-surveillance-technology-review


CA- Berkeley City Council renews Flock Safety contract

https://www.ktvu.com/news/berkeley-renews-flock-blocks-significant-expansion-network

CA- Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission Holding BS Forum on Flock Safety Privacy

https://archive.ph/9HoOT

CA- LA Sheriff Department has hundreds of surveillance cameras. Officials say data isn’t shared with ICE

https://laist.com/news/politics/la-sheriff-department-has-hundreds-of-surveillance-cameras-officials-say-data-isnt-shared-with-ice

World Privacy News

Concerns Mount That EU Will Demand Age Verification for VPNs

https://www.pcmag.com/news/concerns-mount-that-eu-will-demand-age-verification-for-vpns

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing”

https://gizmodo.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-laws-2000756429

Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume and rebury their father

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/10/nx-s1-5817496/israeli-settlers-palestinian-exhume-grave-west-bank-jenin

Ex-spy who sold U.S. secrets to Israel says he’s sorry, and will run for parliament

“This week, Sam Pollard announced a run for the Israeli parliament in elections later this year as a member of a small new right-wing party.”

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/nx-s1-5812527/former-u-s-analyst-once-jailed-for-spying-for-israel-to-run-for-israeli-parliament

Europol created a secret IT platform to spy on innocent people

“Europol, the EU police agency, built and operated secret data analysis platforms, containing vast amounts of sensitive personal information, CORRECTIV, Solomon and Computer Weekly can reveal based on leaked emails, internal documents, and whistleblower accounts. One of the systems allowed Europol staff to access and analyze highly sensitive data – including phone records, identity documents, financial and geolocation information – also relating to individuals not suspected of a crime.”

https://correctiv.org/en/europe/2026/05/05/they-protect-the-law-while-breaking-it-inside-europols-shadow-it-system/

SHAMELESS: Frontex uses border capacity review to argue its own value

https://www.statewatch.org/news/2026/april/frontex-uses-border-capacity-review-to-argue-its-own-value/

EU Vice-President Suggests Restricting VPNs, Triggering Fierce Backlash

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/eu-vpn-restriction-backlash-chat-control/

Privacy Under Siege: Why the EU’s VPN Crackdown is a Cybersecurity Suicide Mission

https://paul-walsh.medium.com/privacy-under-siege-why-the-eus-vpn-crackdown-is-a-cybersecurity-suicide-mission-adc4c212e0f9

European Commission publishes EUDI Wallet age verification reccomendations

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-sets-out-common-approach-eu-wide-age-verification-technologies

EU’s Age Verification Push Raises Privacy Issues Beyond Data Confidentiality

https://www.techpolicy.press/europes-age-verification-push-raises-privacy-issues-beyond-data-confidentiality/

IDEMIA and Leidos work together to expand facial recognition eGates in airports

https://www.leidos.com/insights/modernizing-airport-checkpoints-biometric-egates

EU refuses to fine facial recognition company PimEyes because they’re based in Dubai

https://noyb.eu/en/no-action-taken-against-pimeyes-noyb-lawsuit-against-hamburg-dpa

World’s Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Canceled After Pressure From China

https://archive.ph/Hmbmw

China’s Disruption of RightsCon is a Wake-Up Call To Counter Its Authoritarian Influence

https://www.techpolicy.press/chinas-disruption-of-rightscon-is-a-wakeup-call-to-counter-its-authoritarian-influence/

IDEMIA and Leidos work together to expand facial recognition eGates in airports

https://www.leidos.com/insights/modernizing-airport-checkpoints-biometric-egates

LinkedIn faces privacy complaint over selling user data

https://noyb.eu/en/linkedin-locks-your-gdpr-rights-behind-paywall

Toyota’s $10 Billion “Woven City” Is A Privacy Nightmare

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/05/inside-toyotas-10b-private-utopia-big-ideas-few-people-cameras-everywhere/

UK- Nurseries urged to report ‘racist toddlers’ to police

https://archive.ph/xTvHh

UK- Protest Laws Should Be Viewed As Efforts To Ban Criticism Of Israel

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/05/02/protest-laws-should-be-viewed-as-efforts-to-ban-criticism-of-israel/

UK- I’m ex-police. Banning Palestine marches is wrong

https://www.declassifieduk.org/im-ex-police-banning-palestine-marches-is-wrong/

UK- Michael Mansfield ‘extremely concerned’ by case against Palestine Action lawyer

https://www.declassifieduk.org/contempt-case-against-palestine-action-barrister-creating-chilling-effect/

UK- Scanned, tackled, arrested: how live facial recognition was piloted on the streets of Croydon

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/04/live-facial-recognition-pilot-croydon-london

UK- Police facial recognition oversight lagging far behind technology

https://archive.ph/LhLig

UK- The Department for Work and Pensions wants to use unmarked surveillance vehicles to spy on people suspected of committing fraud

https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035526-2026

China- Hengqin Port uses facial recognition to ID people in vehicles

https://www.gov.mo/en/news/398954/

UAE visitors can open government digital ID bank accounts

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/uae/uae-visitors-can-now-open-digital-bank-accounts-with-tourist-identity-initiative

Google and World Bank to Help Governments Create Digital IDs in 12 Latin American Countries

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-globe/google-latin-america/new-ai-initiatives-latin-america/

Puerto Rico- Trump DOJ Halted Drugs-for-Votes Investigation

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes


Puerto Rico- Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme

https://www.propublica.org/article/puerto-rico-trump-drugs-votes-prisons-elections-jenniffer-gonzalez-colon

Peru- U.N. criticizes removal of judge for defense of judicial independence

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/05/peru-un-experts-deplore-reprisals-against-judge-ordonez

]]><![CDATA[U.S. News/Police Violence]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-0d6https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-0d6Mon, 11 May 2026 14:02:40 GMTUS Incarceration Rates Rise As More Than 7.6M People Are Arrested Each Year
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2026.html

Trump’s immigration street sweeps led to more ‘collateral’ arrests of noncriminals

“About 70% of the collateral arrests were for people with immigration-related crimes or violations alone, compared with 41% for arrests with warrants. Less than 2% of those with collateral arrests were convicted of a violent crime, one-third the rate of other arrests, and only 18% were convicted of any crime, compared with 33% for other arrests. In the months since August where collateral arrests are now labeled, D.C. and IL stand out with high shares of collateral arrests. More than half the arrests in the district were collateral, as were 41% of those in IL. There were eight states in which at least 30% of arrests were collateral: AL, MD, West VA, AZ, PA, NH, ME and MN.”

https://stateline.org/2026/04/30/immigration-street-sweeps-led-to-more-collateral-arrests-of-noncriminals/

ICE arrests in DC failed to meet probable cause standards: judge

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-finds-ice-arrests-in-dc-failed-to-meet-probable-cause-standards/

Legislators Denounce “Appalling and Horrific Treatment” of Mothers in Immigrant Detention

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/pregnant-mothers-appalling-horrific-treatment-ice-detention-cbp-shackles/

Trump Administration has arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/08/trump-administration-parents-arrested

At Least 79 Kids Have Been Harmed by Tear Gas or Pepper Spray During Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

https://www.propublica.org/article/kids-tear-gas-trump-immigration-crackdown

Trump administration has transferred 17,400 people to more than 30 countries

“As of May 5, 2026, the Trump administration has used these deals to send over 17,400 third country nationals to at least 21 countries (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, Mexico, Moldova, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Uzbekistan). The Trump administration has also entered into agreements with at least 10 other countries, including Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Dominica, Guyana, Liberia, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts and Nevis, where transfers have not yet occurred as far as is publicly known. Discussions over an agreement with Grenada are ongoing, and an agreement may be finalized or in the process of being finalized with Sierra Leone. Negotiations over an agreement have stalled with Argentina.”

https://www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org/

International Legal Challenges to the Trump Administration’s Immigration Policies

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/international-legal-challenges-to-the-trump-administration-s-immigration-policies

Migrant Insider
ICE Is Coming to the World Cup.
WASHINGTON — The 2026 FIFA World Cup was supposed to be a gift — a 78-match, $10 billion showcase of American hospitality, with MetLife Stadium hosting the final in front of a global audience. What nobody put in the brochure was Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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a month ago · 49 likes · 3 comments · Pablo Manríquez

World Cup Organizer Issues Update On ICE Presence At Stadiums

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fifa-world-cup-ice-marco-rubio_n_69fd7a70e4b0cb033e51025d?origin=home-latest-news-unit

Increase in ICE Arrests Under Trump 2.0 Has NOT Created More Jobs for Americans
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35129/w35129.pdf

Border czar Homan promises ‘mass deportations are coming’ to fulfill Trump’s promises

Immigration officers arrested more than half a million undocumented immigrants last year, according to officials speaking at the Expo, and are now making about 1,200 arrests a day; President Trump had campaigned on a promise of a million deportations a year. “If you think last year’s historic number is good, wait till next year and we have 10,000 more agents on the border. You ain’t seen shit yet,” Tom Homan said

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/07/g-s1-120580/trump-border-czar-mass-deportations

When Do ICE ‘Detention Centers’ Become ‘Concentration Camps’?

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/04/ice-language-detention-concentration-camps

Zeteo
‘They Are Choking Me’: Witness Describes ICE Camp Homicide That Team Trump Tried to Cover Up
It’s been four months since Geraldo Lunas Campos was killed while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the notorious detention camp at Fort Bliss, a US military base in El Paso, Texas…
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a month ago · 274 likes · 7 comments · Asawin Suebsaeng

U.S. combat veteran tear-gassed, falsely arrested by ICE sues

https://reason.com/2026/05/10/why-this-u-s-citizen-was-arrested-and-jailed-during-an-ice-raid/

Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers

https://archive.ph/JDkkP

Trump Administration Closes Watchdog Office For Immigration Detention Abuses

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/immigration-detention-ombudsman-closure_n_69f8facee4b0115dd7bf98e5

Trump-appointed judge reverses stance over ICE’s indefinite detention policy

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-appointed-judge-reverses-stance-after-11th-circuit-ice-ruling/gm-GM3C1FD907

Trump counterterrorism strategy targets ‘violent left-wing extremists’ (antifa)

“Our national counterterrorism activities will prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent, secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-gender or anarchist such as antifa, we will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations,” senior director for counterterrorism Sebastian Gorka said of the modes the administration will use to target the left-wing groups.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/trump-counterterrorism-strategy-vows-to-counter-violent-left-wing-extremists-with-transgender-ideology-00909284

Ken Klippenstein
Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist “Extremists"
Subscriptions are declining; PLEASE become a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work…
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a month ago · 783 likes · 53 comments · Ken Klippenstein

Trump ramps up denaturalization campaign, targeting U.S. citizens accused of crimes, fraud, terrorism

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-denaturalization-us-citizens-justice-department/

Inmates describe being punished for speaking out about Ghislaine Maxwell

https://archive.ph/2yKGn

Immigrants are giving up their cases and leaving the U.S. in soaring numbers

https://archive.ph/yOSCS

Appeals court split over ICE detention of illegal immigrants without bond

“The divided panel of the Chicago-based 7th Circuit Court of Appeals splintered over the administration’s novel interpretation of 30-year-old immigration laws, with one judge saying it had subjected millions of people to being detained by ICE without due process, one judge siding with the administration’s view and a third declining to endorse either view.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/05/mandatory-detetion-appeals-court-ruling-00906943

The Carceral Report
GEO Group CEO calls Litigation Against ICE Jails “Unprecedented” and “Unconstitutional”
On today’s quarterly earnings call, GEO Group CEO George Zoley called litigation against immigration jails “unprecedented” and “unconstitutional…
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a month ago · 5 likes · Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg

BS WARNING: Police audit finds no evidence of misuse by Thornton officer who ran more than 10K Flock searches

There are over 737K cops in the U.S. if each cop conducted 10K Flock Safety searches they would conduct over 737 BILLION searches every year!
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/audit-finds-no-evidence-of-flock-misuse-by-thornton-officer/73-d74a63b8-ab77-49e5-9ae6-e06903ae0252

OR police allowed ICE to make nearly 300 Flock Safety queries in its first 3 weeks

https://www.bendsource.com/news/localnews/federal-immigration-officials-made-279-queries-into-bends-flock-safety-data-in-its-first-three-weeks/

Dayton police suspend Flock Safety contract, after officer shared access with ICE

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-suspends-flock-license-plate-readers-says-data-used-for-immigration-enforcement/article_14a3f629-ac59-57cd-91e8-c53ed5619971.html

Trump Attacks Media, Calls Reporting on Iran War “Seditious”

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-attacks-media-calls-reporting-on-iran-war-seditious/

Congress Gave Away Its Authority To Declare War and Enabled Trump’s Iran War

https://reason.com/2026/05/05/congress-and-the-executive-enabled-illegal-war-in-iran/

New Member of Trump’s Iran Negotiating Team Comes From Notorious Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/05/03/new-member-of-trumps-iran-negotiating-team-comes-from-notoriously-hawkish-think-tank/

Leaked CIA Analysis Shows Trump and Hegseth ‘Lied Through Their Teeth’ About Iran War

https://www.commondreams.org/news/cia-iran

America’s Debt Under Trump Now Tops 100% of GDP

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2b589901-28e7-4fe0-bcf8-c4f97688f263.html

Trump Judicial Nominees Refuse to Say He’s Not Eligible for 3rd Term

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-third-term-illegal

Political activist who protested outside Stephen Miller’s home won’t face state charges

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protester-stephen-miller-doxxing-no-charges-virginia/

Judge dismisses UMass student Pro-Palestinian protestor assault charge, forces her to complete 20 hours of community service

Maysoun Batley told The Shoestring she feels as if she was made an example of, a warning to would-be student activists. “Cases like mine are brought to court not because of any type of legitimacy, not because a cop was actually assaulted, or any harm was done, but to use as an example for other students,” Batley said. “If you have the audacity to speak up against what is happening we will ruin your life.”

https://theshoestring.org/2026/05/07/judge-dismisses-student-protestor-assault-charge-after-two-years/

“Where Have All the Student Protests Gone?”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/college-university-student-protests-palestine-israel-gaza-trump/

Democrats cry foul over DOJ official representing Pam Bondi in Epstein interview

https://www.courthousenews.com/democrats-cry-foul-over-doj-official-representing-bondi-in-epstein-interview/

Pam Bondi keeps up the shady shenanigans in Epstein probe

“There is no reason for DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon to be discussing this at all, much less have details on what Bondi has agreed to through counsel—unless, well, Dhillon is that counsel. You don’t need to be an expert on legal ethics to understand that no one can be both a high-level government attorney and then somehow switch to being a private attorney when Bondi needs a lawyer.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/4/800033068/news/bondi-epstein-house-dhillon/

GOP Chairman Comer Hits Lutnick Ahead of Epstein Testimony: ‘He Wasn’t 100% Truthful’ About Island Visit

https://www.local3news.com/regional-national/gop-chairman-says-lutnick-wasn-t-100-truthful-about-epstein-ties-as-commerce-secretary-faces/article_38e0d513-df2d-5458-9889-343b7af01627.html

Comey Prosecutor Ellis Boyle, Mimics Trump in Every Way

North Carolina prosecutor Ellis Boyle wears Trump’s hallmark red ties, mimics the double thumbs up in photos, and ends his emails with, “Thank you for your attention to this matter,” echoing the president’s social media sign-offs. He peppers press releases with the same sort of charged language, like catching “thugs” and “bad hombres,” that Trump uses on Truth Social.

https://archive.ph/YP7sR

DEFIANCE.News
There's a secret reason they charged Comey. It's worse than the charges themselves.
Yesterday, after he was charged with crimes over an Instagram post, an arrest warrant was issued for the former FBI director. It accidentally revealed the secret reason Trump wants him charged again…
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a month ago · 1406 likes · 54 comments · Miles Taylor

Why the Courts Will 86 the Flagrantly Unconstitutional Charges Against James Comey

https://reason.com/2026/05/05/why-the-courts-will-86-the-flagrantly-unconstitutional-charges-against-james-comey/

Whatever Evidence the DOJ Has Against James Comey, It Cannot Transform ‘8647’ Into a Death Threat

https://reason.com/2026/05/06/whatever-evidence-the-doj-has-against-james-comey-it-cannot-transform-86-47-into-a-death-threat/

DOJ asks Second Circuit to back end-run installation of Trump’s disqualified New York US attorney pick

https://www.courthousenews.com/doj-asks-second-circuit-to-back-end-run-installation-of-trumps-disqualified-new-york-u-s-attorney-pick/

Republicans propose $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for Trump ballroom

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna343637

Senate Republicans reject claims DHS budget deal funds Trump ballroom
https://www.courthousenews.com/senate-republicans-reject-claims-dhs-budget-deal-funds-trump-ballroom/

Republicans Want To Borrow Every Single Dollar of the $72 Billion Bill To Fund ICE and Trump’s Ballroom

https://reason.com/2026/05/06/republicans-want-to-borrow-every-single-dollar-of-the-72-billion-bill-to-fund-ice-and-trumps-ballroom/

DHS Sued Over DNA Database To Track ICE Critics

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/ice-protesters-sue-to-stop-dhs-from-seizing-dna-samples/

DHS instructed DOJ lawyer to hide murder warrant from judge so the Trump administration could publicly attack her

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/ice-detention-case-contempt-hearing-00905610

NYC mayor bashes ICE as ‘cruel and inhumane’ after anti-ICE mob’s violent clash with cops at NYC hospital

https://nypost.com/2026/05/03/us-news/mamdani-bashes-ice-as-cruel-and-inhumane-after-mobs-violent-clash-with-cops-at-nyc-hospital/

New York Bars ICE Agents From Wearing Masks

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/new-york-state-set-ban-law-enforcement-including-ice-wearing-masks-2026-05-07/

NYC mayor allegedly scrutinizing NYPD contracts with ICE vendor

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/mamdani-administration-scrutinizing-nypd-contracts-with-ice-vendor-00907979

ICE Keeps Detaining the Same US Citizen Again, and Again, and Again. He’s Fighting Back

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/ice-keeps-detaining-the-same-us-citizen-again-and-again-and-again-hes-fighting-back/

VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti, murdered by Border Patrol

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/politics/va-investigation-vigil-alex-pretti

D.C. Appeals Court weighs Pentagon bid to punish Senator Mark Kelly

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-weighs-pentagon-bid-punish-senator-mark-kelly-2026-05-07/

Senator Kelly’s profile rises as he heads toward another likely victory over Hegseth

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kelly-s-profile-rises-as-he-heads-toward-another-likely-victory-over-hegseth/ar-AA22D72O

Miami Police Have Become a Show-Me-Your-Papers Patrol Despite Public Opposition

https://truthout.org/articles/miami-police-have-become-a-show-me-your-papers-patrol-despite-public-opposition/

Portland, ME council approves strengthened language on ICE cooperation

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/05/04/portland-council-approves-strengthened-language-on-ice-cooperation/

Grand Jury Indicts Man Shot By ICE Agents In California

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/03/us/stanislaus-ca-ice-shooting

Trump Administration Revokes Minnesota Man And His Wife’s Global Entry After Watching ICE Agents

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/minnesota-man-global-entry-revoked-agents_n_69f8c4cae4b06e9242f55d01

DHS abuses 1930’s customs law in attempt to get data on Canadian couple from Google

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/dhs-abuses-1930s-customs-law-in-attempt-to-get-data-on-canadian-from-google/

https://archive.ph/uEO0E

Kash Patel Gifted Friends Signed Bottles of FBI Branded Bourbon Bottles

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/kash-patel-fbi-bourbon/687066

Kash Patel ordered polygraphs of more than two dozen members of his team

https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-ordered-polygraphs-of-more-than-two-dozen-members-of-his-team-sources-tell-ms-now

Democracy Forward sues DHS over immigrant biometric policy

https://democracyforward.org/news/press-releases/detained-immigrants-challenge-trump-vance-policy-that-forces-automatic-denial-of-applications/

TSA gives people under 30 a $20 discount to sign up for their facial recognition PreCheck

https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2026/04/29/travelers-aged-30-and-under-save-20-new-tsa-precheckr-membership

43 airports have used CLEAR facial recognition to ID 41M passengers

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clear-announces-first-quarter-2026-financial-results-302763304.html

Louisiana Republican wants bars to use facial recognition to ID customers

https://973thedawg.com/face-scanning-louisiana-underage-drinking/

UK man tries to extort woman he secretly filmed using Meta smart glasses

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o

Why Governments Shouldn’t Build Their Own Digital ID Systems

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-governments-shouldnt-build-own-digital-id-systems-tony-allen-s2hre

Metalenz Has Figured Out a Way to Make Face ID Invisible

Being the world’s only consumer-scale imaging system that can sense the full polarization state of light, Polar ID enables the next level of biometric security. Using breakthrough advances in meta-optic capability, Polar ID accurately captures the unique “polarization signature” of a human face. With this additional layer of information, even the most sophisticated 3D masks and spoof instruments are immediately detected as non-human.

https://archive.ph/RnWAQ

Meta’s Facebook and Instagram uses AI profiling to infer a persons age

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/05/ai-age-assurance-teens/amp/

Utah’s New Age Verification Law Targeting VPNs Takes Effect This Week

https://gizmodo.com/utahs-new-age-verification-law-targeting-vpns-takes-effect-this-week-2000754412

How a Bill Banning AI Companions for Kids Could Usher in Widespread ID Checks Online

https://reason.com/2026/05/04/how-a-bill-banning-ai-companions-for-kids-could-usher-in-widespread-id-checks-online/

Surveillance Tools Intended for Border Control Are Being Used Against Americans

https://reason.com/2026/05/06/surveillance-tools-intended-for-border-control-are-being-used-against-americans/

New AI surveillance towers at US-Mexico border raise privacy concerns

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/07/new-ai-surveillance-towers-us-mexico-border-raise-privacy-concerns/

Trump’s Border Spending Spurs Boom in AI-Infused Surveillance

https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-border-spending-spurs-boom-in-ai-infused-surveillance-4714521b

‘The Creep State Is Watching’: Guerilla Art Project Takes on Big Tech’s Power Grab

https://www.commondreams.org/news/creep-state-anti-big-tech

Ring Security Cameras Can’t Distinguish Brake Lights From Fire And A Reflection From A Tornado
https://www.wsj.com/tech/are-those-brake-lights-or-a-house-on-fire-your-security-camera-cant-tell-c40b1cce

How to ditch Ring’s surveillance network (police surveillance and Flock Safety)

https://www.theverge.com/tech/890910/best-ring-alternatives-privacy-focused-video-doorbell-local-storage-reolink-aqara-tapo-ecobee

Representatives Massie and Boebert push for new limits on facial recognition, license plate readers

https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2026/04/24/massie-boebert-surveillance-bill-

Flock Safety: How to Fund a License Plate Reader Program in 2026

https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/how-to-fund-a-license-plate-reader-lpr-program-in-2026-7-funding-sources-police-agencies-are-using

Shaker Heights Police Department changes Flock camera policy after law enforcement agencies conducted 700K immigration searches

The data sets show that Shaker Heights data was accessed more than 700,000 times, but Shaker Police accessed it only 1,016 times. The majority, 693,573 searches, were done by other law enforcement agencies in Ohio and across the country.”

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/investigations/shaker-heights-changes-flock-camera-policy-after-probe-finds-hundreds-of-outside-immigration-searches

Flock camera surveillance is Big Brother come to life

https://captimes.com/opinion/natalie-eilbert/opinion-flock-camera-surveillance-is-big-brother-come-to-life/article_3284a8f2-639e-4814-8c88-5613a85dc574.html

Idaho gets rid of vehicle registration stickers uses Flock Safety to ticket motorists

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/article315600783.html

Man Trapped in Dystopian Nightmare Thanks to Flock Safety Cameras Flagging His Every Move

https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-ai-surveillance-colorado

Norfolk State University police sued for encircling campus with Flock Safety cameras

https://spartanecho.org/2026/05/06/norfolk-states-campus-is-encircled-by-license-plate-readers-at-the-center-of-a-federal-lawsuit/

Berkeley’s Flock surveillance expansion has ‘legal risks,’ city attorneys say

“Attorneys for the city warned about threats of lawsuits against Berkeley, unreliable data protections and what could have been either simple negligence or shady maneuvering by Flock while negotiating with Berkeley, to name a few.” The attorneys suggested that Flock is likely going to agree to any safety measures the city demands, but added, “we cannot ensure Flock will abide by its contractual obligations,” the attorneys said.

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2026/05/06/berkeley-flock-surveillance-contract-memo-confidential

CT Home Depot’s and Lowe’s stores use Flock Safety to ID every vehicle

https://archive.ph/0qROS

Independent Traffic Violations and Concurrent Dog Sniffs Sustain Fourth Amendment Stops (License Plate Readers)

“The court also declined to decide whether the license-plate reader search was unconstitutional.”

https://www.casemine.com/commentary/us/independent-traffic-violations-and-concurrent-dog-sniffs-sustain-fourth-amendment-stops/view

NY judge suppresses license plate reader evidence in drug case, cites ‘troubling aspect of police behavior’

“A Columbia County Court judge has suppressed the evidence in a drug case because of an illegal police search. NY State Police Investigator Michael Moore searched license plate reader data and learned that the vehicle had made several trips between upstate New York and Vermont and New York City. Moore believed the travel pattern indicated that the vehicle was involved in criminal behavior.”

https://nydailyrecord.com/2026/05/01/judge-suppresses-evidence-in-drug-case-and-cites-troubling-aspect-of-police-behavior/

Blueprint for Police Drone Surveillance: North Dakota Police uses Vantis to Access the FAA’s Radar Data in Real-Time

“Vantis UAS“ allows police to see every drone in each state in real-time.

https://www.ndit.nd.gov/news/nd-first-state-access-faa-data-strategic-drone-operations

https://www.commerce.nd.gov/economic-development-finance/autonomous-systems/vantis-north-dakotas-groundbreaking-uas-network

Vantis UAS Propaganda Video NEVER Mentions Police Surveillance Drones ONCE

Brinc’s “Next Step in the Evolution of Drone as First Responder” Is 24/7 Police Surveillance Using Elon Musk’s Starlink

https://brincdrones.com/news/dfr-3-0-the-next-step-in-the-evolution-of-drone-as-first-responder/

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/brinc-unveils-guardian-a-starlink-connected-drone-that-could-replace-the-police-helicopter/

Texas police receive $3.2M to expand surveillance drones under the guise of World Cup security

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/dps-secures-3-2m-for-drone-detection-ahead-of-world-cup/

LAPD receives $2.1M to expand surveillance drones

https://laist.com/brief/news/criminal-justice/lapd-approves-2-1-million-expansion-of-drone-first-responder-program

Kairos Public Schools to let Vacaville police to use surveillance drones to spy on students

“Kairos Public School officials said the technology adds a new layer of monitoring and rapid-response capability for the Kairos campus during emergencies.”

https://www.thereporter.com/2026/05/01/kairos-vaca-police-team-up-on-drone-security/

Houston police want to put drones in public schools

https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_412146e0-0ed9-4598-8a0d-a4f5e6464454.html

Grande Prairie police use drones to remove people from homeless encampments

https://www.mygrandeprairienow.com/152564/news/police/gpps/gpps-identifies-three-encampments-in-the-city-using-drones/

Greeley police to use 4 surveillance drones as first responders

https://archive.ph/UGjYC

York-Poquoson sheriff’s office to use surveillance drones as first responders

https://archive.ph/4PYui

St. Charles County police to use surveillance drones a first responders

https://dronexl.co/2026/05/05/st-charles-brinc-drone-program/

Police Violence

Georgia mayor fires entire police force for upsetting his wife

https://www.wdef.com/entire-cohutta-police-department-fired-in-developing-town-dispute/

Man Arrested for DUI Tracks Stolen Laptop to State Troopers Home

For three years, ISP Trooper Kevin Bradley was named by a nonprofit as the state’s “Top Cop”: A moniker given to the member of law enforcement who has made the most DUI arrests statewide.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/top-cop-driver-accused-dui-tracks-missing-laptop-illinois-state-police-trooper-kevin-bradleys-house/19060850

Democrat proposes bill that would term limit the Supreme Court

https://www.newsweek.com/thomas-alito-roberts-face-removal-from-supreme-court-under-proposed-law-11910716

Trump Administration Terminates $500M in Grants to Public Safety Organizations

https://www.vera.org/news/the-federal-government-pulled-back-500-million-from-public-safety-organizations-one-year-later-communities-are-still-reeling

Racial Bias in Tarrant County’s Death Penalty System Exposed

https://www.texasdefender.org/tarrant-county-death-penalty-report/

DISGUSTED: NYPD police union claims civilian oversight board is biased against cops and needs to be fired

https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/us-news/police-watchdog-prober-accused-pc-tisch-of-protecting-killer-cops/

NYC detectives union wants NYPD officers included in ICE act protecting them from the public

https://nypost.com/2026/05/09/us-news/nyc-detectives-union-pushes-for-nypd-to-be-part-of-ice-buffer-zone-act/

Iowa Supreme Court reopens case of fatal police shooting

https://www.kcrg.com/2026/05/01/iowa-supreme-court-reopens-lawsuit-against-waterloo-officer-2021-fatal-shooting/

GA prosecutor who used AI during murder trial disciplined

The court found, opens new tab that “numerous fictitious or misattributed case citations” appeared in a lower court’s 2025 order denying a murder ​defendant’s bid for a new trial. “Citing cases that do not exist or do not support the ​proposition for which they are cited is a violation of this Court’s rules and ⁠falls far beneath the conduct we expect from Georgia lawyers,” Justice Benjamin Land wrote.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ai-errors-us-murder-case-lead-discipline-georgia-prosecutor-2026-05-05/

Police should be banned from using AI to convince suspects into making confessions
https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2435&context=blr

Tossed murder conviction could impact other solved Milwaukee homicide cases

https://www.tmj4.com/about-us/lighthouse/tossed-murder-conviction-could-impact-other-solved-milwaukee-homicide-cases-defense-attorney-says

Prosecutors Strike Black Jurors at Alarming Rates Despite Batson Ruling

https://innocenceproject.org/news/batson-v-kentucky-racially-biased-jury-selection-40-years-later/

NY prosecutors undermining state law that protects domestic violence survivors

New York’s highest court ruled last month that Hudson’s plea agreement undermined that landmark state law, which intended to prevent domestic violence survivors from receiving excessive sentences. The Court of Appeals said forcing survivors to waive their right to one of these hearings as a condition of a plea deal would “eviscerate” a path to lower sentences for the “vast majority” of domestic violence survivors charged with crimes.

https://gothamist.com/news/ny-prosecutors-undermining-state-law-that-protects-domestic-violence-survivors-court

8,500 sexual abuse allegations were reported in federal prisons from 2014 through 2022

https://verdict.news/legal/gao-federal-prison-sex-abuse-audits-miss-active-ab-019dfa30

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-107343.pdf

Exonerees and advocates call for DNA testing before Tennessee executes Tony Carruthers

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/may/03/exonerees-and-advocates-call-for-dna-testing/

DNA testing has lead to more than 600 exonerations since 1989

https://innocenceproject.org/news/five-facts-about-dna-testing-and-wrongful-convictions-in-2026/

NYPD paid a 13-year-old and her mom $17K to wrongfully convict a man of murder

As Harry Ruiz sat in the courtroom along with Kuby, his eyes welled up as he listened to Judge Mandelbaum underscore facts of the case that he had never known. According to court documents, prosecutors allegedly paid off the teen witness and her mother, who had substance abuse issues. The girl and her mother reportedly received $17,000 rent, living expenses. The District Attorney at the time even requested that NYCHA expedite the family’s application for public housing. “Listening to what was happening in the courtroom with all the evidence that was suppressed was a shock to me, because I never knew a lot of this stuff,” Ruiz shared. “It hurt my heart. I really did. It hurt my heart to hear what they did at that time.”

https://www.amny.com/news/man-exonerated-manhattan-murder-case/

https://indypendent.org/2026/04/how-the-manhattan-das-office-falsely-convicted-harry-ruiz-and-sent-him-to-prison-for-25-years/

Colorado judge finds exculpatory evidence issues in mother’s 2008 arson, murder trial

https://www.courthousenews.com/colorado-judge-finds-evidence-issues-in-mothers-2008-arson-murder-trial/

Appeals Court Splits on Qualified Immunity for AR Cops

https://verdict.news/circuit/8th-circuit-splits-on-qualified-immunity-for-bento-019e0482

VT cop who shot two men trying to drive away sentenced to probation

https://vtdigger.org/2026/05/04/former-rutland-police-sergeant-who-shot-two-men-in-2023-is-sentenced-to-probation/

DISGUSTED: Seattle police dodge claims of murdering a man holding baby (cops shot him in the head)

https://www.courthousenews.com/seattle-police-dodge-claims-in-fatal-shooting-of-man-holding-baby/

DISGUSTED: Jury finds LA cops not liable for shooting of 14-year-old girl

https://www.courthousenews.com/jury-finds-la-not-liable-for-police-shooting-of-14-year-old-girl/

CA cops who posed as federal agents to extort marijuana get up to 30 months in prison

https://www.courthousenews.com/ex-cops-who-posed-as-federal-agents-to-extort-marijuana-get-up-to-30-months-in-prison/

AZ cop pay family $150K for ignoring drowning man who died in front of them

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/05/07/tempe-settles-lawsuit-150k-over-mans-2022-controversial-drowning/

NY- Rikers Island to pay families of two men who overdosed in prison $2.5M

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/06/rikers-island-drug-overdose-death-settlement/

After sober DUI charge, retired FBI executive calls for change in Tennessee

https://www.wvlt.tv/2026/05/01/stressful-traumatic-after-sober-dui-charge-retired-fbi-executive-calls-change-tennessee/

Video shows FL deputy running driver off road near Walt Disney World Without Emergency Lights Activated

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/investigators/2026/05/04/video-shows-orange-county-deputy-running-driver-off-road-near-walt-disney-world

NH Cop On Paid Leave After Video Shows Him Assaulting A Handcuffed Suspect

https://patch.com/new-hampshire/manchester-nh/queen-city-cop-leave-after-video-appears-show-him-assaulting-handcuffed

GA cop arrested for domestic violence

https://news.monroelocal.org/gwinnett-county-police-officer-charged-in-domestic-dispute/

KS cop arrested for domestic violence

https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article315632382.html

VA cop arrested for public intoxication

https://www.whsv.com/2026/05/07/woodstock-officer-arrested-winchester-facing-charge-public-intoxication/

Former NJ cop arrested after violent home invasion with bat

https://newjersey.news12.com/2026/05/08/former-hoboken-police-officer-arrested-after-violent-home-invasion-with-bat-in-bergenfield/5Xrs9okQIFnKut9dZ3wBk3

]]><![CDATA[U.S. Privacy And World Privacy News]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-436https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-436Tue, 05 May 2026 14:02:55 GMTAppeals Court rules Hawaii does not have to publicly release voter rolls

https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-says-hawaii-does-not-have-to-publicly-release-voter-rolls/

5th Circuit Appeals Court Restricts Abortion Access Across The U.S. By Blocking The Mailing Of Mifepristone

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5808328/court-restricts-abortion-access-mailing-mifepristone

U.S. Supreme Court Rules For Anti-Abortion Pregnancy Center
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-anti-abortion-pregnancy-center_n_699f1e73e4b0100c25467023

Thomson Reuters sued for state privacy law violations

“The Thomson Reuters CLEAR platform has faced scrutiny over privacy concerns. The database, Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting, compiles billions of data points on individuals, including addresses, driving and arrest records and social media activity. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement use CLEAR to access license plate data, thereby bypassing restrictions that limit direct data sharing with local agencies in sanctuary cities. In Chicago, for example, a city ordinance bars police from assisting ICE in enforcing immigration laws.”

https://courthousenews.com/michigan-residents-sue-thomson-reuters-over-public-display-of-social-security-numbers/


Trump Administration Exposed Private Social Security Data Through Medicare Portal

https://archive.ph/Ciczu

Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/trump-nominates-fox-news-doctor-to-be-the-next-surgeon-general/

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Improper Government Payments Under Trump Administration Rose to $186 Billion in 2025

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-26-108694.pdf

How Eric Trump Got Rich From Bitcoin While Losing Investors A Fortune

https://archive.ph/Hj77l

‘The Apprentice’ Reboot With Donald Trump Jr. as Host Reportedly Under Early Discussion at Amazon

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/apprentice-reboot-donald-trump-jr-host-amazon-1236733857/

Trump’s Vision for ‘Garden of Heroes’ Keeps Getting Bigger and Higher in Cost

https://archive.ph/kWYbm

Colorado judge declines to disqualify himself from Tina Peters case

https://www.courthousenews.com/colorado-judge-declines-to-disqualify-himself-from-tina-peters-case/

Trump’s Justice Department Has Destroyed Its Voting Rights Section

“They’ve turned what was previously the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Division, the Voting Section, into a weapon against voters,” Michelle Kanter Cohen, policy director and senior counsel at the Fair Elections Center, tells WIRED. “This used to be a section that enforced people’s voting rights, that worked against intimidation, that enforced federal voting laws meant to protect people from discrimination and meant to make voting fair and accessible. It is being turned into a political tool to further conspiracy theories of the Trump administration.”

https://archive.ph/qcAIF

‘I have the right to vote.’ States and the DOJ are fighting over personal data

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/27/justice-department-states-battle-voter-registration-lists/89693395007/

Louisiana suspends upcoming primaries for the U.S. House after Supreme Court ruling

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/30/nx-s1-5806000/louisiana-suspends-house-primaries-supreme-court

8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover-takeaways

FL gov. DeSantis releases new congressional map creating four more GOP-leaning seats

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna342227

U.S. Supreme Court allows Texas Republican Abbott and Paxton’s redrawn congressional map

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/27/texas-redistricting-map-ruling-us-supreme-court-upheld-2026-midterms/

Alaska Governor (Republican) Vetoes Bipartisan Elections Reform Bill

https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/04/30/gov-dunleavy-vetoes-bipartisan-elections-reform-bill/

U.S. Supreme Court Eviscerates The Voting Rights Act

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-ruling_n_69611055e4b0120ab25d13aa

https://www.commondreams.org/news/scotus-louisiana-vra

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/29/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-louisiana-00898123

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan warns of ‘grave’ consequences after voting rights ruling

Elena Kagan on Wednesday wrote a dissenting opinion, which was joined by fellow liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Kagan said that under the court’s decision, “a State can, without legal consequence, systematically di lute minority citizens’ voting power.”

https://www.newsweek.com/elena-kagan-warns-of-grave-consequences-after-supreme-court-ruling-11893486

Civil Rights Groups Condemn Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision

https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-condemns-supreme-courts-ruling-against-voting-rights

https://www.aclu-md.org/press-releases/aclu-of-maryland-condemns-supreme-courts-gutting-of-the-voting-rights-act-calls-on-states-to-act/

Trump’s DOJ to Enforce Supreme Court’s Ruling on Voting Rights Act Nationwide

https://krcrtv.com/news/nation-world/doj-to-enforce-scotus-ruling-nationwide-all-states-with-racially-gerrymandered-districts-congressional-lawmakers-doj

Trump DOJ Vows to Weaponize Supreme Court Ruling Against Minority Voters

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/we-are-on-it-trump-doj-vows-to-weaponize-supreme-court-ruling-against-minority-voters/

FBI seizure of Fulton County election ballots happened quickly after criminal probe opened

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/02/politics/timeline-fbi-criminal-probe-seizure-fulton-county-ballots

Virginia Supreme Court Weighs GOP Challenge to Democrats’ Redistricting Amendment

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/virginia-supreme-court-considers-gop-challenge-to-voter-approved-redistricting-plan-favoring-democrats

Alabama Republicans push for new congressional map after Supreme Court ruling

https://www.al.com/politics/2026/04/alabama-republicans-push-for-new-congressional-map-after-seismic-supreme-court-ruling-its-time-to-act.html

Republican governors pursue new congressional maps after Supreme Court ruling

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/republican-governors-pursue-new-congressional-maps-after-us-supreme-court-ruling-2026-05-01/

Trump push for state voter rolls rebuffed by courts as midterms near

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-push-state-voter-rolls-rebuffed-by-courts-midterms-near-2026-04-28/

Trump and Kentucky Republicans are uniting against Thomas Massie (Democrat)

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/28/trump-and-kentucky-republicans-are-uniting-against-massie-he-could-still-win-00894312

EPIC Urges Representatives to Vote NO on 3 Privacy Bills (H.R. 8312, 8463, and 8464)

https://epic.org/epic-urges-representatives-to-vote-no-on-privacy-invasions-data-consolidation-at-treasury/

Lobbying spending hits highest first-quarter total on record

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/04/lobbying-spending-hits-highest-first-quarter-total-on-record

Trump’s FCC to review Disney’s ABC station licenses after Jimmy Kimmel joke

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/jimmy-kimmel-joke-enrages-white-house-tests-disneys-new-ceo-2026-04-28/

Trump Administration’s Review of ABC’s Broadcast Licenses Looks Like ‘Illegal Jawboning’

https://reason.com/2026/04/28/trump-administrations-review-of-abcs-broadcast-licenses-looks-like-illegal-jawboning/

60 Minutes journalist decries ‘spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear’ at CBS News

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/30/60-minutes-sharyn-alfonsi-cbs-news

Corrupt Texas Appeals Court Pauses The Onion’s Purchase of Infowars

https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-appeals-court-pauses-the-onions-purchase-of-infowars/

RCFP attorney defends Louisiana journalist sued by government over public records requests

https://www.rcfp.org/wbr-independent-lawsuit/

Politico Boss Reportedly Demands Allegiance to Israel From Editorial Staff

https://truthout.org/articles/politico-boss-reportedly-demands-allegiance-to-israel-from-editorial-staff/

INCREDULOUS: Republican’s Introduce New Capital Gains Tax, Blame Biden And Democrats For Massive Inflation

https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/republicans-eye-capital-gains-tax-090000270.html

Treasury Department missed security controls in giving DOGE system access

What difference does it make when Trump let’s Kevin Marsh takeover?

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/04/treasury-missed-security-controls-giving-doge-system-access-gao-finds/413174

DOGE duo ducked security rules during Treasury Department stint

https://fedscoop.com/doge-data-access-treasury-payment-systems-gao-report/

US banks left guessing over scope of looming order on citizenship data
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-banks-left-guessing-over-scope-looming-order-citizenship-data-2026-04-30/

Trump administration seeks access to medical records of millions of federal workers

https://wamu.org/story/26/04/29/dc-trump-administration-access-federal-workers-medical-records/

Trump administration rejects women picked for soybean board, appoints men instead

“It seems like a small thing,” Wisconsin farmer Sara Stelter said, “but in other ways, it’s really a big deal because it’s just another thing of where the current administration views women, I believe, and what their role should be.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-administration-rejects-women-picked-soybean-board-appoints-men-instead-2026-04-29/

Trump’s Voice of America: U.S. undersecretary Sarah Rogers pushing MAGA on Europe

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-voice-of-america-free-speech-crusader-maga-europe/

Trump appoints Former Tobacco Executive as CDC deputy director for legislative affairs

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2026-04-24/former-tobacco-executive-takes-cdc-role

Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Will Be 38.5% Owned by Middle Eastern Countries

(Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar)

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-foreign-ownership-middle-eastern-funds-1236731732/

Websites break California’s privacy law at ‘industrial scale’

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/04/21/websites-break-california-privacy-law-at-industrial-scale-survey-find

House Republican leaders try again on national preemptive data privacy law

“These new proposals represent another attempt by Congress to implement a national privacy standard, which so far has been unsuccessful.”

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2026/04/congress-tries-again-national-preemptive-data-privacy-law/413205

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

Sam Altman is “the face of evil” for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/school-shooting-lawsuits-accuse-openai-of-hiding-violent-chatgpt-users/

8 in 10 Chatbots Inclined to Assist Users in Planning Attacks

https://www.statista.com/chart/36156/instances-where-chatbots-assisted-users-plan-a-violent-attack/

OpenAI Enables Marketing Cookies by Default for Free ChatGPT Users

https://archive.ph/o8xUp

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

“If you portray these technologies as somehow almost supernatural in their danger, it makes us feel like we are powerless, like we are outmatched,” says Shannon Vallor, a professor of the ethics of data and artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh in the UK. “As if the only people we could possibly look to would be the companies themselves.”

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them

Disclosed government AI use increased by 70% in 2025

https://fedscoop.com/disclosed-government-ai-use-increased-in-2025-omb/

Colorado attorney general to delay enforcing AI law after Musk’s xAI lawsuit

https://statescoop.com/colorado-ag-delaying-ai-law-xai-lawsuit/

The hidden cost of Google’s AI defaults and the illusion of choice

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/googles-privacy-maze-how-gemini-traps-you-and-your-data/

Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/919326/google-ai-pentagon-classified-letter

SHAMEFUL: Pentagon adds Google’s latest model to GenAI.mil as usage soars

https://www.nextgov.com/defense/2026/04/pentagon-adds-googles-latest-model-genaimil-usage-soars/413127

Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/google-expands-pentagons-access-to-its-ai-after-anthropics-refusal/

Google employees protest after company signs Pentagon AI deal

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-staff-protest-ai-pentagon-120305646.html

Army’s Project ARIA seeks to accelerate AI adoption across the force

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/army/2026/04/armys-project-aria-seeks-to-accelerate-ai-adoption-across-the-force/

Anthopic’s Claude AI Deletes Company Database in 9 Seconds

https://decrypt.co/365897/ai-agent-deletes-startup-database-9-seconds-founder-says

White House is drafting plans to permit federal Anthropic use

Wonder how long it will take Trump to blame Anthropic for deleting all the Epstein files?

https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/white-house-drafting-plans-permit-federal-anthropic-use/413202

Top AI companies agree to work with Pentagon on secret data

https://archive.ph/SE7ZX

Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents

https://www.theverge.com/news/921944/microsoft-word-legal-agent-ai

Microsoft, OpenAI change terms of $50 billion deal so startup can court Amazon and others

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/microsoft-end-exclusive-license-openais-technology-2026-04-27/

Amazon is offering new OpenAI products on AWS

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/amazon-is-already-offering-new-openai-products-on-aws/

Amazon-owned Woot accused of secretly tracking shoppers, sharing data with Meta

https://www.courthousenews.com/amazon-owned-woot-accused-of-secretly-tracking-shoppers-sharing-data-with-meta/

Apple patches bug that exposed deleted Signal messages

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/

U.S. companies hit with record privacy fines last year

https://cyberscoop.com/privacy-companies-hit-with-record-fines-2025-gartner/

Top Fauci Advisor David Morens Charged In COVID Records Cover-Up

https://archive.ph/CCmU3

Every New Car Could Become a Surveillance Machine by 2027 — And It May Decide If You Can Drive

https://autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-environment/articles/every-car-could-become-surveillance-164837608.html

All New Cars Could Have Mandatory Surveillance Tech Unless Congress Stops This Mandate

https://reason.com/2026/04/29/all-new-cars-could-have-mandatory-surveillance-tech-unless-congress-stops-this-mandate/

Early data links Wegovy to risk of ‘eye stroke’ — here’s what to know

Dr. Amanda Adler, a professor of diabetic medicine and health policy at the University of Oxford added that the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency — the U.K. equivalent of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — is informing people who use semaglutide to “seek urgent medical care if they notice their eyesight getting worse quickly.”

https://www.livescience.com/health/medicine-drugs/early-data-links-wegovy-to-risk-of-eye-stroke-heres-what-to-know

State & Local Privacy News

VT- Members of the House Judiciary Committee gutted bill that would ban ICE agents from wearing masks

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/30/vermont-lawmakers-no-longer-plan-on-unmasking-ice/

ME- How a dark money network linked to Leonard Leo factors into the state’s super PAC lawsuit

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/04/how-a-dark-money-network-linked-to-leonard-leo-factors-into-maines-super-pac-lawsuit

NH- Advisory Panel Hears Progress Improving the Human Rights Commission

A public input meeting to address concerns about the state’s lengthy backlog in human rights complaints was held Friday but no one came to speak. But progress is being made on the backlog, the Temporary Human Rights Commission Advisory Committee was told. “It’s the worst audit (result) I’ve ever seen,” committee chair Rep. Kenneth Weyler, said after the hearing.

https://indepthnh.org/2026/05/01/advisory-panel-hears-progress-improving-the-nh-human-rights-commission/

NH- State’s Blue Envelope Program fails to reach drivers and police departments aren’t aware of it

“Drivers who could benefit from the Blue Envelope are reporting that they don’t know how to obtain one. Police departments have not been notified about the program. That gap between law and reality undermines the very purpose of the legislation.”

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/28/my-turn-blue-envelope-law-implementation/

NH- Judge rules the state is not in contempt despite terminating car inspections contract

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/30/new-hampshire-car-inspection-ruling/

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/05/01/first-circuit-stays-court-order-commandeering-new-hampshire-though-doesnt-rely-on-anti-commandeering-arguments/

MA- Boston police to pay $850K for beating and pepper-spraying BLM protesters

https://archive.ph/j1BfL

https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/04/28/boston-pays-850k-to-settle-lawsuit-that-alleges-protesters-were-beaten-by-police/


MA- Springfield Police and Feds Move to Close the Lid on Pearl Street Oversight

https://wmasspi.com/2026/04/springfield-and-feds-move-to-close-the-lid-on-pearl-street-oversight.html

MA- Officials seek end to Springfield Police Department’s consent decree

https://www.wamc.org/news/2026-04-28/officials-seek-end-to-springfield-police-departments-consent-decree

MA- Merrimack Valley mirrorless bus cameras turn public transit into rolling surveillance platforms

https://archive.ph/eXEcy

MA- Most low-income tenants have no lawyer in eviction cases. A state initiative is trying to change that

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/most-low-income-tenants-have-no-lawyer-in-eviction-cases-a-state-initiative-is-trying-to-change-that/

MA- Springfield woman jailed for six months for releasing bees to save neighbor with cancer from being evicted

“Rebecca Woods, who is a beekeeper, was sentenced to six months after being convicted of using the bees as a weapon against deputies during a 2022 eviction.”

https://archive.ph/uh4Fp

MA- Civil liberties advocates protest social media “ID check” laws outside the Boston Public Library

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-28-civil-liberties-and-lgbtq-advocates-protest-social-media-id-check-laws-outside-wgbh-ask-the-governor-broadcast/

MA- State legislature should impose limits on harmful book bans in libraries

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/legislature-should-impose-limits-on-harmful-book-bans-in-state-libraries/

CT- Norwalk Police Department’s Flock Safety cameras raise privacy concerns

https://archive.ph/JxTwy

PA- Cumberland county sheriffs and corrections officers to purchase body cams

https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/pennsylvania-county-nets-100k-grant-for-bodycams

MD- Critics say the governments ban on surveillance pricing is toothless

https://gizmodo.com/maryland-just-banned-surveillance-pricing-on-groceries-critics-say-its-basically-toothless-2000752290

NC- Charlotte police have used “Connect Charlotte” to create a citywide network of 2K surveillance cameras

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article315369829.html

NC- Did your car get caught on camera? Madison County defends Flock Safety surveillance

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/madison/2026/04/28/automated-license-plate-readers-madison-county-residents-concerned-flock-safety-4th-amendment-police/89588773007/


SC- Civil Rights Groups Ask State Appeals Court to Reinstate Flock Safety License Plate Reader Lawsuit

https://www.policingproject.org/news-main/2026/5/4/south-carolinians-ask-state-appeals-court-to-reinstate-automated-license-plate-reader-lawsuit

TN- BS WARNING: Republican sponsors ‘Charlie Kirk Act’ to safeguard free speech on college campuses

https://www.williamsonherald.com/communities/rep-gino-bulso-sponsors-charlie-kirk-act-to-safeguard-free-speech-on-college-campuses/article_f0362b7e-1df3-4a99-ae6f-79788abee748.html

KY- BIG BROTHER WARNING: Louisville Metro to keep Flock camera locations a secret

https://www.lpm.org/investigate/2026-04-28/in-louisville-flock-camera-locations-will-stay-secret

FL- Lakeland police want more surveillance drones

https://www.tampabay28.com/news/local-news/lakeland-polk-county/lakeland-police-push-for-drone-program-to-speed-up-emergency-response

OH- Cincinnati public schools opens first of its kind Safe Sleep Lot for homeless students

https://www.wlwt.com/article/cincinnati-public-schools-safe-sleep-lot-taft-elementary-opens/71173796

OH- ‘Infringement on our privacy;’ Coalition speaks out after Dayton suspends Flock Safety camera program

https://www.whio.com/news/local/infringement-our-privacy-coalition-speaks-out-after-dayton-suspends-flock-camera-program/R72AQINUBFG2ZI5CV4XJ6TCHTM

WI- Pierce County Board approves Flock Safety cameras

https://www.piercecountyjournal.news/stories/pierce-county-board-approves-license-plate-readers-welcomes-new-supervisors,188220

WI- Oshkosh ends Flock Safety contract but will keep license plate readers

https://www.nbc26.com/oshkosh/oshkosh-ends-flock-safety-contract-but-will-keep-license-plate-readers

IL- Bill would restrict use of police license plate cameras

https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/new-bill-in-illinois-restricts-police-use-of-license-plate-cameras/


TX- Austin City Council passes TRUST Act to regulate Flock Safety cameras

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/austin-mayor-and-council/austin-city-council-trust-act-regulate-surveillance-tech-use/269-1ccd701f-a672-41dc-b071-db8396a4c2f7

https://services.austintexas.gov/edims/document.cfm?id=466941

TX- City of Austin adopts strictest Flock Safety camera law in the country

“We saw when the Austin City Council in 2024 adopted the toughest guardrails in the country for automated license plate readers. But then our procurement process failed because the police department was allowed to execute a contract with Flock that didn’t fully comply with council policy,” Siegel said. “This process that’s created through the TRUST Act will ensure that doesn’t happen again.”

https://communityimpact.com/austin/central-austin/government/2026/05/01/austin-adopts-stricter-oversight-of-city-surveillance-technology-use/

TX- As License Plate Readers Expand Across The State, Privacy Advocates Are Fighting Back

https://www.texasobserver.org/license-plate-readers-texas-privacy-advocates/

CO- After pushback from police, lawmakers kill bill that would have regulated Flock Safety cameras

https://www.aspentimes.com/news/colorado-lawmakers-cameras-flock-regulate/

CO- Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead

https://archive.ph/e2aiF

AR- Parkin police cited by state as ‘speed trap,’ barred from issuing motorists tickets

https://wreg.com/news/mid-south/ar-town-cited-by-state-as-speed-trap-barred-from-traffic-citations/

AR- Tech Lobbyists Hard At Work Undermining Proposed ‘Right To Repair’ Law

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/28/tech-lobbyists-hard-at-work-undermining-proposed-alaska-right-to-repair-law/

SD- Codington County Sheriff’s Department to install 16 Flock Safety cameras

https://www.mykxlg.com/news/local/codington-county-approves-flock-safety-cameras-following-discussion/article_52f653a5-7cea-4a6f-8d13-d2ff50a01ee0.html

SD- Aberdeen city council delays action on license plate reader agreement

https://citizenportal.ai/articles/7865719/South-Dakota/Brown-County/City-of-Aberdeen/Aberdeen-pauses-decision-on-state-run-license-plate-readers-after-council-questions-on-data-access

CA- Beaumont police to use Flock Safety drones to spy on the public

https://www.recordgazette.net/news/beaumont-city-council-approves-900k-drone-safety-agreement/article_6339934c-4538-45f8-a6e3-28180c191fc6.html

CA- Inglewood police to use Axon license plate readers to spy on the public

https://laist.com/news/politics/inglewood-city-council-police-body-cams-automated-license-plate-readers

CA- Why Did Anaheim City Council Vote to Install Nearly $1M-Worth of Motorola License Plate Surveillance?

https://archive.ph/xcUOv

CA- 3 Flock Safety cameras stolen near highway 49 in Auburn

https://www.kcra.com/article/flock-license-plate-reader-cameras-stolen-near-highway-49-in-auburn/71157954

WA- What to Know About the New Restrictions on Flock Safety and Similar Camera Systems

https://mrsc.org/stay-informed/mrsc-insight/april-2026/restrictions-flock-cameras

World Privacy News

Canadian official backs up report that Iranian soccer chief was denied entry for FIFA event

https://apnews.com/article/fifa-world-cup-canada-iran-c110e73dadfdfe9aae55e2e64bde98ac

Israel’s National Security Minister celebrates birthday with cakes decorated with nooses

https://www.timesofisrael.com/naftali-has-no-friends-ben-gvir-bennett-spar-as-top-cops-attend-ministers-birthday-party/

Israel’s death penalty law constitutes racial discrimination and segregation: UN Committee

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/05/israels-discriminatory-death-penalty-law-marks-grave-human-rights

Israel’s ‘Yellow Line’ In Gaza Creeps Forward

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/gaza-yellow-line-creeps-westwards-israel

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/04/30/israels-yellow-line-annexation-in-gaza/

Israel Bankrolls War Crimes in Occupied Syrian Golan

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/28/israel-bankrolls-war-crimes-in-occupied-syrian-golan


Voter Disenfranchisement: A Privacy Issue

“Disenfranchisement - the deprivation of the right to vote - erodes election integrity. The increasingly prominent role of data and tech in elections can lead to a chilling of political participation as well as raising privacy concerns, particularly for minority groups.”

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5762/voter-disenfranchisement-privacy-issue

Youth organizations demand social media change, not bans

https://edri.org/our-work/youth-organisations-demand-social-media-change-not-bans/

The EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans

“Follow The Money’s investigation shows that funds from the European Defense Fund, Horizon research programs, loans from an Italian state-owned bank and an entity belonging to Spain’s science ministry, have provided funding to companies developing commercial spyware, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of euros. This includes EU taxpayers’ money being used to fund Intellexa, the company behind the Predatorgate scandal in Greece. The EU Commission itself has acknowledged EU funds being granted to spyware companies. Then there are investments. The Belgian outlet Apache reported that the European Investment Fund provided funds for the Israeli spyware company Paragon Solutions through an Israeli venture capital fund.”

https://edri.org/our-work/its-not-just-spyware-scandals-eu-is-funding-the-industry-that-spies-on-europeans/

UN experts: Safeguard human freedoms from systematic digital interference, surveillance

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/04/un-experts-safeguard-human-freedoms-systematic-digital-interference

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/statements/20260427-safeguard-hr-freed-syst-digi-inter-surv-chill-civic-space-sr-freedom-peaceful-en.pdf

Google and World Bank work together to expand digital IDs in Latin America

https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/around-the-globe/google-latin-america/new-ai-initiatives-latin-america/

Amadeus to Acquire IDEMIA for $1.4 billion

https://www.reuters.com/business/amadeus-buy-french-biometrics-firm-idemia-12-billion-euros-2026-04-29/

Germany- Government wants to change to the Code of Criminal Procedure so police can use facial recognition

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Digital-dragnet-search-Government-votes-for-biometric-matching-and-AI-analysis-11277058.html


Greece- Government’s AI smart policing system ruled unlawful after spending €4M

https://edri.org/our-work/greeces-ai-smart-policing-system-ruled-unlawful-after-e4-million-public-spending/

UK- Judge bars Palestine Action defendants from using terms like “genocide” or discussing the history of the Middle East during trial

Now, a draft court order reviewed by The Grayzone reveals how the presiding judge has sought to comprehensively neutralize the PA activists’ ability to defend themselves by imposing crippling restrictions on what can be said in closing speeches. Under threat of secret contempt of court charges, the jury may be improperly swayed to convict them of serious crimes, not knowing harsh “terrorism”-related sentences will be attached. A copy of the order obtained by The Grayzone exposes Judge Johnson’s egregious weaponization of contempt of court charges to sway jurors. Defendants and their lawyers are prevented from mentioning the principle of jury equity, which holds that a judge is forbidden from “[directing] a jury to convict.” They are also prohibited from inviting jurors to acquit the six activists based on conscience. That the activists believed “they had a defence to a charge of criminal damage” under British law likewise cannot be uttered.

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/29/uk-palestine-action-defendants-terror/

UK- The UK’s Public Accounts Committee announced an inquiry into digital ID scheme

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/9764/digital-id/

UK- Gov’t Promises More Social Media Restrictions

https://off-guardian.org/2026/04/28/uk-govt-promises-more-social-media-restrictions/

UK- Police use facial recognition to arrest an innocent man and innocent midwife

https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-15762539/The-British-software-engineer-midwife-accused-CRIMINALS-faulty-AI-facial-recognition-software-YOU-worried-rise.html

UK- IRONY: The Metropolitan Police Federation is Upset About Palantir Software Spying On Cops 24/7

“For several weeks, the federation has known of Met’s intention to upgrade its Lawful Business Monitoring software, yet we were never informed that the upgrade would include the deployment of Palantir’s artificial intelligence. This continuous 24/7 geo-location tracking is highly intrusive and risks monitoring officers when they are off duty, on rest days, or at home. This presumption of wrongdoing and attack on officer’s personal lives is unacceptable.”
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/30/met_police_palantir_deployment_cop_probe/

UK- Government’s Dependence on Palantir is Growing, at Great Public Cost

https://expose-news.com/2026/04/26/uk-dependence-on-palantir-is-growing-at-great-public-cost/

UK- The Government’s Sentencing Act Leaves the Door Open for Big Tech to Build Digital Prisons

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-uks-sentencing-act-leaves-the-door-open-for-big-tech-to-build-digital-prisons/

Pakistan- Government considers Trump-backed $2.4B facial recognition airport e-gate upgrades

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2605493/us-backs-24-billion-american-firm-investment-offer-in-pakistan

Armenia- Government prepares rollout of biometric passports and facial recognition border systems

https://armenpress.am/en/article/1248654/

Indonesia- Government to require Roblox use facial recognition for kids under 16

https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-roblox-restriction-children-minors-social-media-6eefd0a3613e0092bf0d7a137ff22ae7

Canada- Government passes bill gutting Ontario freedom-of-information access

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ford-government-passes-bill-gutting-ontario-freedom-of-information-access/article_bd943fc7-4689-4c7e-b6b5-7eddee83ed49.html

Chile- Innovatrics and DTPM work together to use facial recognition to ID every passenger on public buses

https://www.innovatrics.com/news/innovatrics-and-dtpm-pilot-face-biometrics-for-faster-boarding-on-santiagos-public-transport/

]]><![CDATA[U.S. News/Police Violence]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-4f7https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-4f7Mon, 04 May 2026 14:03:26 GMTTrump tells Congress Iran conflict is over, sidestepping war authorization

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tells-congress-iran-conflict-is-over-sidestepping-war-authorization/ar-AA22boTx

At the 60-Day Mark, the Iran War is Triply Illegal
https://www.justsecurity.org/137669/60-day-mark-iran-war-triply-illegal/


Trump Brags About U.S. Navy in Iran: “We’re Like Pirates - And It’s Very Profitable”

“We took over the ship, we took over ​the cargo, we took over the oil. It’s a very ​profitable business,” Trump said in remarks on Friday evening. “We’re ⁠like pirates. We’re sort of like pirates but we are not ​playing games.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-us-navy-acting-like-pirates-carry-out-naval-blockade-iranian-ports-2026-05-02/

Trump’s Iran War Continues to Violate the Constitution - and Now Also the War Powers Act of 1973

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/05/01/trumps-iran-war-continues-to-violate-the-constitution-and-now-also-the-war-powers-act-of-1973/

Trump’s Iran War Has Cost Taxpayers $25 Billion
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-war-iran-has-cost-25-billion-so-far-says-pentagon-official-2026-04-29/

Trump Administration Uses Emergency Powers to Clear $8.6 Billion Arms Sales to Israel, Qatar and the UAE

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/02/us-fast-tracks-arms-deals-valued-at-86-billion-to-/

7 American AI Companies to Help Pentagon Fight Its Wars

Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, OpenAI, Reflection and SpaceX will provide their resources to help “augment warfighter decision-making in complex operational environments,” the Defense Department said.

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-artificial-intelligence-military-classified-systems-war-060cecf836c4cebcf012a3ceb5333f2c

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Critics Torch Plastering ‘Trump’s Scowling Face’ On New U.S. Passports

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/new-passports-trumps-face-reaction_n_69f1495ce4b0f2c72139c4aa


Gov. Newsom trolls Trump’s plan to put his face on new passports with scathing license parody

https://www.ktvu.com/news/newsom-trolls-trumps-unveilling-limited-edition-u-s-passport.amp

All the Things Trump Has Put His Name and Face on as President

https://time.com/article/2026/03/27/trump-name-face-signature-currency-government-buildings-programs/

Passports to Kennedy Center: 13 places Trump’s name or likeness now appears

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5855218-passports-kennedy-center-trump-name-likeness/

Trump threatens Iran with AI picture of himself with a gun: ‘No more Mr. Nice guy!’

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/trump-iran-threat-ai-picture-gun-war-strait-of-hormuz.html


Senate Republicans block measure to stop Trump from attacking Cuba

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5854017-senate-republicans-block-trump-cuba-resolution/

Trump jokes that the US Navy will takeover Cuba ‘almost immediately’ on the way back from Iran

https://www.euronews.com/2026/05/02/trump-jokes-that-the-us-navy-will-takeover-cuba-almost-immediately-on-the-way-back-from-ir

Trump’s Cuban American base is no longer guaranteeing him loyalty

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/trump-cuba-policy-florida-00902686

Trump’s DOJ Indicts James Comey for Seashells Photo That Spelled out “8647”

“Well, I have to say, I must be in a parallel universe to be talking about the shell artwork of James Comey,” Fox News legal contributor Jonathan Turley replied. “But the fact is that it is relevant only to the extent that he might have denied a fact that proved to be, his denial proved to be false to federal officials.”

https://www.rawstory.com/jonathan-turley-comey-indictment

https://www.courthousenews.com/former-fbi-director-comey-indicted-for-second-time-over-beachgoing-instagram-post/

DOJ’s indictment of James Comey over “8647” should be thrown out

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/04/28/analyzing-indictment-of-james-comey-for-86-47-post/#more-8379828

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalized with ‘8647’ graffiti after Trump changes

https://archive.ph/naf1A

Trump calls people of color “low IQ” in 84% of posts

In the first 10 months of his second term, Trump never once referred to a white person as “low IQ,” leveling that attack solely against nonwhite people.

https://truthout.org/articles/8-in-10-posts-by-trump-calling-someone-low-iq-feature-a-person-of-color/

Hegseth laughs off antisemitism accusations from Jacky Rosen over ‘Pharisee’ comments

https://archive.ph/p3umO

How a Republican state lawmaker tried to let Holocaust deniers hijack history lessons
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/nx-s1-5708847/holocaust-denial-conspiracy-theory-politics

City of Westminster Unveils Charlie Kirk Way Signs Amid Community Division

https://kfiam640.iheart.com/content/2026-04-29-westminster-unveils-charlie-kirk-way-signs-amid-community-division/

Federal unions sue the Office of Personnel Management over Trump Loyalty Essay Questions

Ori Lev, an attorney at Protect Democracy who is representing the plaintiffs, told the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in a declaration posted Monday that he recently went through the application process for several federal job openings — but in each case, the essay questions were marked as a “required” field.

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2026/04/federal-job-applicants-cant-skip-loyalty-question-that-opm-says-is-optional-court-filings-claim/

Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great—And Trump

https://archive.ph/Bysp3

ICE Arrests Have Tripled During Trump’s Second Term

https://www.kcra.com/article/trump-second-term-ice-arrest-data-by-state/71077287

Trump’s DOJ can use military lawyer to prosecute civilian, judge rules

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-can-use-military-lawyers-prosecute-civilians-judge-rules-2026-05-02/

Judge: Looks Like A Police State To Me, Ruling On ICE Migrant Detention Cases

“A contrary rule—the one that the USAO here defends by backing detention and opposing release—“would obliterate one of the most fundamental distinctions between our form of government, where officers are under the law, and the police-state where they are the law,” New York judge Sanket Bulsara said.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/28/looks-like-a-police-state-to-me-says-federal-judge-handling-migrant-detention-cases/

Appeals Court Rules Against Trump’s Indefinite Detention Policy

https://archive.ph/CWuaP

DOJ sued for blocking public and press from accessing immigration courts

https://www.rcfp.org/doj-immigration-court-access/

Trump administration sues an entire federal court in Maryland for waiting 2 days to deport immigrants who file writs of habeas corpus

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/federal-judges-sued-by-trump-administration-ask-appeals-court-reject-misguided-2026-04-30/

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-virus-would-only-spread-entire-court-sued-by-trump-admin-urges-4th-circuit-to-slam-door-shut-on-extraordinary-branch-on-branch-lawsuit-to-avoid-greater-disruptions/

Appeals court: No constitutional right to be ‘free from tear gas’ at ICE facilities

https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-clear-to-use-tear-gas-chemicals-at-portland-ice-facility/

ICE’s Work with Local Police Departments is Being Kept Secret

“ICE claims it shouldn’t have to respond to FOAI requests at all.”

https://americanoversight.org/ice-287g-foia-transparency/

Mass. police share fingerprint data with ICE
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58ea378e414fb5fae5ba06c7/t/69ee81d82527712157967b51/1777238488340/ICE+Out.pdf

MA judge IDs ICE agent being sued for choking a man into unconsciousness

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-unmasks-ice-agent-suit-over-whether-he-choked-man

Nearly half of immigrants arrested by ICE in Mass. had no criminal conviction or charge

https://archive.ph/6XhND

Mainers arrested after protesting at ICE facility in Mass: ‘It’s inhumane’

“I found as a citizen of the United States that it was absolutely abhorrent and unacceptable that these people are being held without due process,” Jasa Porciello, of Portland, ME said. “Due process is part of our rights as citizens and these people are here legally or without criminal record and it’s just not acceptable. When their rights are violated, it’s an erosion of my rights as an American. We can’t let the baseline of our rights be eroded in this way. It’s cruel, it’s not acceptable, it’s inhumane.”

Judge reluctant to order ICE to improve conditions at Southern California facility

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-reluctant-to-order-ice-to-improve-conditions-at-southern-california-facility/

Trump administration sues New Jersey over law barring ICE from wearing masks

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-administration-sues-new-jersey-over-state-law-barring-ice-from-wearing-masks/

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ICE Is Rapidly Expanding Detention Camps into Warehouses Despite Record Deaths

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/deaths-in-detention-ice-is-rapidly-expanding-detention-camps-into-warehouses-despite-record-deaths

AG Investigation Finds Nothing ‘Nefarious’ In Not Alerting NH Gov. Ayotte About ICE Detention Center

https://indepthnh.org/2026/05/01/ag-probe-finds-nothing-nefarious-in-not-alerting-ayotte-about-ice-contact/

Apply the Minnesota Protocol to ICE’s Summary Executions of Unarmed Protesters

https://www.justsecurity.org/131790/apply-minnesota-protocol-ice-summary-executions/

ICE arrests of Cubans skyrocket under Trump as green cards plummet

https://archive.ph/XWFns

A police department lawsuit against a Black Lives Matter activist could chill all of our speech

https://www.fire.org/news/lawsuit-against-black-lives-matter-activist-could-chill-all-our-speech

Mass. police chief raises alarm over protests at ICE office

https://archive.ph/Oqtr0

ME couple say DHS called after they took videos of ICE activity

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/29/south-portland-couple-says-dhs-called-after-they-took-videos-of-ice-activity/

Trump Endorses Rebranding ICE as NICE
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/trump-endorses-rebranding-ice-as-nice/

New DHS chief’s call for quieter immigration enforcement alarms MAGA base

https://archive.ph/Sj1So

More Details Emerge of Trump’s Secret Use of ICE to Spy on Critics

ICE targets personal information of Trump critics.

https://truthout.org/articles/more-details-emerge-of-trumps-secret-use-of-ice-to-spy-on-critics/

Academic Freedom in the U.S. Has Declined Quicker Than Anywhere in the World

“The decline in academic freedom in the United States began around 2020, largely fueled by state-level actions in several states, and mostly undertaken by officials aligned with the MAGA movement. At the federal level, the government is using not only executive orders but [also] coercive executive actions, cancelling of contracts, not making payments on approved grants, changes to various policies and practices outside the terms of statutory rules and procedures.”

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20260320155848399

https://academic-freedom-index.net/research/Academic_Freedom_Index_Update_2026.pdf

Press Freedom at Lowest Level in 25 Years and Trump is to Blame

The media rights watchdog cited as examples US President Donald Trump’s “systematic” attacks on journalists and Saudi Arabia, which executed a journalist in 2025. US President Donal Trump has turned his repeated attacks on the press and journalists into a systematic policy, pushing the US down to 64th place.

https://rsf.org/en/2026-rsf-index-press-freedom-25-year-low

US Falls to Lowest-Ever Rank on Press Freedom Index Under Trump

https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-press-freedom-index

US falls below Ukraine in press freedom as global autocracy takes hold

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/us-falls-below-ukraine-in-press-freedom-as-global-autocracy-takes-hold/

Inflation spikes to 3.5 percent in March as Iran war drove prices higher

https://thehill.com/business/5856788-march-inflation-rate-spikes

Trump’s Approval Rating Plunges So Low It Breaks Pollster’s Graph

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-approval-rating-plunges-so-low-it-breaks-pollsters-graph/

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-approval-rating-hits-new-low-with-his-most-favorable-pollster-11900983

Trump Approval Rating Slips Over Ethics And Honesty

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/05/01/trump-loses-ground-on-several-personal-traits-as-approval-rating-slips/


Republicans want National Guard troops at every World Cup event

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/republicans-call-national-guard-role-091834486.html

Over 120 Civil Society Groups Issue Travel Advisory for U.S. Ahead of FIFA World Cup

“Fans, journalists and others traveling to the United States for the 2026 FIFA World Cup risk encountering a deeply troubling human rights landscape, shaped by the Trump administration’s racist immigration policies, mass detention and deportation, and attacks on freedom of expression and peaceful protest,” said Daniel Noroña, Americas Advocacy Director with Amnesty International.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/over-120-civil-society-groups-issue-travel-advisory-for-u-s-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup

2026 World Cup In the U.S. Will Kick Off in Climate of Fear (ICE)

Can anyone say Berlin Olympics of 1936?

The 79-page “Reporters’ Guide for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada, Mexico, and the United States” summarizes Human Rights Watch findings on human rights conditions across all three host countries and the particular risks that the US government’s policies pose to journalists, fans, players, and immigrant communities. The guide describes FIFA’s weak response to the human rights risks posed by the US President Donald Trump administration’s abuse of immigrants and its failure to meet its human rights commitments for the tournament.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/27/2026-world-cup-tournament-will-kick-off-in-climate-of-fear

Alabama county’s Confederate Memorial Day post prompts sharp reactions

https://www.al.com/news/2026/04/this-is-a-parody-right-alabama-countys-confederate-memorial-day-post-prompts-sharp-reactions.html

Hundreds of Incarcerated Migrants Go on Hunger Strike in Remote Michigan Prison

https://truthout.org/articles/hundreds-of-incarcerated-migrants-go-on-hunger-strike-in-remote-michigan-prison/

Trump Replacing Immigration Judges With Fringe Right-Wingers

https://archive.ph/G9fUx

New Mexico to End Cooperation With ICE

https://truthout.org/articles/new-mexico-becomes-the-latest-state-to-end-cooperation-with-ice-under-new-law/

Portland, ME City Council postpones vote on ordinance limiting ICE cooperation

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/27/portland-city-council-postpones-vote-on-ordinance-limiting-ice-cooperation/

A major Vermont employer supplies helmets used by ICE

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/30/a-major-vermont-employer-supplies-helmets-used-by-ice/

White House wants critics to stop echoing Trump’s rhetoric, flunking self-awareness

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-wants-critics-stop-130555962.html

Trump Supercut Exposes His ‘Vile Insults’ Amid GOP Calls To ‘Tone Down The Rhetoric’

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-democrats-rhetoric-dinner-shooting-mehdi-hasan-zeteo-supercut_n_69f09e9de4b07987f65c1c45

Kid Rock, Pete Hegseth fly in Army Apache attack helicopters

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/g-s1-118998/kid-rock-flies-army-helicopter

Pentagon Says It Gave Kid Rock a Helicopter Ride to Help Him Film Tour Promo

https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-says-it-gave-kid-rock-a-helicopter-ride-to-help-him-film-tour-promo/

Ukrainian Police Name Trump Supporter Steven Seagal as Illegal Arms Recipient

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/74935

The Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Is No Excuse for More Security Theater (White House Ballroom)

https://reason.com/2026/04/27/the-correspondents-dinner-shooting-is-no-excuse-for-more-security-theater/

MAGA Influencers Were Paid To Coordinate Talking Points After WHCD Shooting

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ashley-st-claire-maga-influencers-group-chat-whcd_n_69eff33ee4b05adce6454419

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Tom the Dancing Bug: Trump Reveals Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms
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DISGUSTED: Republican Lawmakers Move on Legislation to Build and Fund Trump’s $400M White House Ballroom

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congress-republicans-push-legislation-build-fund-trumps-400-million-ballroom-2026-04-27/

Amtrak union officials use Correspondent’s Dinner shooting to demand TSA security for passengers

https://apnews.com/article/amtrak-trump-correspondents-train-guns-security-f172c3261ba90e3c1f18761b0c414179

Trump’s Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG) to receive $55 billion

https://archive.ph/qwydu

Pentagon officials broadly detail $55 billion drone plan under DAWG

https://breakingdefense.com/2026/04/pentagon-officials-broadly-detail-55-billion-drone-plan-under-dawg/

Trump’s U.S. Southern Command announces Autonomous Warfare Command focused on the Caribbean and Central America

https://www.southcom.mil/News/PressReleases/Article/4466083/southcom-establishes-autonomous-warfare-command/

Autonomous weapons will be ‘key and essential part’ of warfare, Joint Chiefs chair says

https://www.nextgov.com/defense/2026/04/autonomous-weapons-will-be-key-and-essential-part-warfare-joint-chiefs-chair-says/413064/

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Pre-Teen Terrorists: FBI’s New Target
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Why Trump Can’t Charge Anyone With ‘Domestic Terrorism’

The Trump administration already claims the authority to label people “domestic terrorists” based on such perceived offenses as “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity.” The FBI cited January 6 as justification to dramatically increase surveillance of American citizens who opposed then-President Joe Biden. We should look skeptically at any further expansion of power that will supposedly fight “terror.”

https://reason.com/2026/04/28/the-feds-cant-charge-anyone-with-domestic-terrorism/

Detroit Police Department’s use of facial recognition for violent crime probes is down

https://www.bridgedetroit.com/detroits-use-of-facial-recognition-for-violent-crime-investigations-is-down-heres-why/

Lawton Police to use Clearview AI Facial Recognition

https://www.swoknews.com/community_news/lawton-council-adopts-facial-recognition-technology-policy/article_5f263e1d-0ad9-5295-a012-5d4874f4effe.html

Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office wants to use Clearview AI facial recognition

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/sheriffs-office-seeks-powerful-facial-recognition-tech-from-controversial-clearview-ai/article_d0becf5d-288e-4166-a9f8-821fc2fd4255.html

Erie County lawmakers ban businesses from collecting and selling facial recognition data

https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/businesses-banned-collecting-selling-biometric-data-erie-county/71-9844b4ba-1629-478c-88b3-8a1a42b0e3c0

MIT University Police to use 500 Facial Recognition Cameras to Spy on Everyone
“Technical specifications for the cameras suggest that they will be capable of collecting real-time face and object classification data, including detection of motion, loitering, crowds, face masks, and camera tampering. Individuals can also be automatically classified on the basis of clothing color, gender, and age, up to a distance of 35 feet (11 meters) from the camera.”

https://thetech.com/2026/04/16/ai-surveillance-cameras

Meta Fires Contractors Who Reviewed Explicit Video From Smart Glasses

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/meta-cuts-contractors-who-reported-seeing-ray-ban-meta-users-have-sex/

Facial recognition data is a key to your identity – if stolen, you can’t just change the locks

https://theconversation.com/facial-recognition-data-is-a-key-to-your-identity-if-stolen-you-cant-just-change-the-locks-278289

Disneyland using facial recognition to ID visitors

https://ktla.com/news/theme-parks/disneyland/disneyland-guests-can-opt-out-of-facial-recognition-at-park-entrances/

Trump’s FMCSA to use IDEMIA Facial Recognition to ID Commercial Drivers

“As the lead federal government agency responsible for regulating and providing safety oversight of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs), FMCSA’s mission is to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large trucks and buses. To help achieve this, FMCSA has partnered with IDEMIA to perform identity document capture and verification services to safely collect customer registration data and prevent fraud.”

https://www.identogo.com/services/fmcsa-registration

Wearing clothing with people’s faces can trick facial recognition

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19365

California to hand over driver’s license data after DHS threats

https://archive.ph/h7rTf

https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/04/california-dmv-shares-immigrant-driver-data/

A DOGE Affiliate Is Now in Charge of the US Government’s Digital ID Platform

https://archive.ph/d5R4E

Trump Administration Fast-Tracks the Digital Control Grid

“Banks will be required to verify every customer’s citizenship using a U.S. passport containing embedded RFID chips and government-ready facial recognition biometrics. No passport? No bank account. Period. Real ID, driver’s licenses, and every other common document will not suffice. This is not border security. This is the final knot in the digital noose.”

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/04/25/trump-administration-fast-tracks-the-digital-control-grid/

Apple Adds Age Verification to Digital ID in Wallet, Moves Beyond TSA Airport Checkpoints

https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-digital-id-age-verification-rollout

How a retired technician handed EFF the proof of NSA mass spying

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-whistleblower-who-uncovered-the-nsas-big-brother-machine/

House Approves Three-Year Extension of Warrantless Section 702 Spy Powers

https://news.antiwar.com/2026/04/29/house-approves-three-year-extension-of-warrantless-spy-powers/

https://reclaimthenet.org/house-renews-fisa-section-702-rejects-warrant-requirement

‘Dangerous and Shameful’: 42 House Democrats Help GOP Send Trump Spying Bill (Section 702) to Senate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-section-702-reauthorization

Congress Extends Section 702 Spy Program 45 Days

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/29/g-s1-119094/congress-fisa-702

Privacy Advocates Relieved Trump ‘Can’t Get Their Warrantless FISA Reauthorization Across the Finish Line’

https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-reform

The Trump Surveillance State Section 702

https://www.creators.com/read/judge-napolitano

CO Man Asks Supreme Court to Revive Fourth Amendment’s Warrant Requirements
Michael Mendenhall’s Denver, Colorado townhome was searched and his property seized after the police used thirdhand information to get a search warrant. He was also forced to spend a night in jail. The testimony of a single witness was passed like a game of “telephone” from a Denver, police officer, to a detective, and then to a judge. Days after his arrest, the charges against Michael were dropped. However, the police continue to hold onto the commemorative baseball bat they seized with the warrant. “By deleting a whole clause from the Fourth Amendment’s text, the Supreme Court erased a powerful safeguard from our Constitution,” said IJ Senior Attorney Patrick Jaicomo. “Through this and other modern refinements, the courts have transformed the warrant process from a meaningful check on government abuse into a mechanism of laundering accountability.”

https://ij.org/press-release/denver-man-asks-supreme-court-to-revive-fourth-amendments-warrant-requirements/

A SCOTUS Geofencing Case Exposes the Dangers of 2 Misguided Fourth Amendment Doctrines

https://reason.com/2026/04/29/a-scotus-case-exposes-the-dangers-of-2-misguided-fourth-amendment-doctrines/

Supreme Court appears split over controversial use of ‘geofence’ search warrants

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/28/scotus-chatrie-geofence-search-warrant-ruling-arguments/

SCOTUS Justices Put Skeptical Questions to Government on Geofencing and Privacy

https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/scotus-justices-put-skeptical-questions-to-government-on-geofencing-and-privacy

NYC councilmember’s bill would ban NYPD from arming robots

https://archive.ph/RXLbR

Open Records Laws Reveal ALPRs’ Sprawling Surveillance. Now States Want to Block What the Public Sees

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/open-records-laws-reveal-alprs-sprawling-surveillance-now-states-want-block-what

Institute for Justice Promises to Continue Fight for Privacy Rights After Legislation on Flock Safety License Plate Readers Fails to Advance

https://ij.org/press-release/institute-for-justice-promises-to-continue-fight-for-privacy-rights-after-legislation-on-automated-license-plate-readers-fails-to-advance/

Flock Safety caught spying on kids in gymnastics centers, fitness studios, libraries, schools, playgrounds, and private pools

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Georgia's Attorney General Publicly Defends Flock Without Disclosing Financial Ties
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Police Have used Flock Safety Cameras to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 14 Times in Recent Years

https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/

Flock Safety Introduces Propaganda “Audit Assistance” Tool

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/04/14/3273480/0/en/Flock-Safety-Introduces-Audit-Assistance-Its-Latest-Trust-Compliance-Tool-to-Set-A-New-Standard-for-Accountable-Public-Safety-Technology.html

Los Angeles police used surveillance drones over 3K times last year

Some members of communities where they most often hover have come to consider them an unwelcome intrusion and a reminder of the LAPD’s overbearing presence. Critics worry that the quieter, nimbler drones will be used to surveil the public with little oversight. The news site the Intercept reported that the department deployed drones to monitor crowds during the recent “No Kings” protests.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-28/lapd-drone-helicopter-program

White House visits Fairfax County’s real-time crime center as Skydio announces they’re investing $3.5 billion in police surveillance drones

https://www.ffxnow.com/2026/04/27/fcpd-touts-drone-program-as-vendor-announces-3-5-billion-investment/

SkyfireAI raises $11M for police surveillance drones

https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/04/29/skyfireai-raises-11m-in-seed-funding-to-develop-autonomous-drone-fleet-platform-for-first-responders-and-defense/

The University of Michigan trains cops to use drones to spy on the public

“We’re trying to help these public safety departments establish their policies and procedures for drone use,” said James Lollar, Mcity’s test facilities manager. “Like the military, first responders are just dipping their toe into utilization. And the first question is ‘How can we most effectively use these new tools?’” The training is one of the first examples of how Mcity, part of the U-M Transportation Research Institute, expanded its scope as a public-private mobility partnership from the ground to the sky with last summer’s launch of M-air. “Implementing drone-based mapping enhances the Huron-Clinton Metroparks Police Department’s ability to document incidents, plan operations, and manage large park areas with greater accuracy and efficiency,” said Sgt. Chris Proudlock.

https://news.engin.umich.edu/2026/03/michigan-first-responders-train-on-drone-technology-and-use-with-experts-at-u-m/


BRINC’s Guardian Police Drones are Integrated with Elon Musk’s Starlink

https://brincdrones.com/news/brinc-unveils-guardian-launching-the-next-era-of-drone-as-first-responder/

Spokane Police Purchase 4 Skydio Surveillance Drones to Spy on World Cup Fans

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/apr/20/spokane-police-to-receive-barriers-and-ai-powered-/

Wayland, MA police to use surveillance drones

https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/story/news/2026/04/29/three-wayland-ma-police-officers-comprise-new-drone-unit/89840603007/

St. Charles County police departments to purchase surveillance drones

https://www.stlpr.org/law-order/2026-04-27/two-st-charles-county-police-departments-on-the-verge-of-launching-new-drone-response

Trump’s Sons Cash In on Dad’s War With Mega Drone Deal

https://archive.ph/wmqYz

As Hegseth Touts Autonomous Warfare Command, Human Rights Expert Pushes Civilian Protections

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/04/30/as-hegseth-touts-autonomous-warfare-command-human-rights-expert-pushes-civilian-protections/

Power-Crazed Hegseth Gets Wish: All Marines required to follow grooming standards within 12 months or face separation

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/04/27/all-marines-required-to-follow-grooming-standards-within-12-months-or-face-separation

Police Violence

Women’s Incarceration Rates Soar, Outpacing Men’s Growth

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/04/27/updated-charts-2026/

How Police Unions Hold a City Hostage

“Racial profiling has returned in full force with the blessing of the Supreme Court. ICE’s budget has exploded as its agents invade cities, terrorize communities, and throw tens of thousands into gulags without due process. Meanwhile, police continue to kill at record rates. Under Trump, police can break laws and impose racial hierarchies without pretending to care about “community policing” or even the Constitution.”

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-hold-a-city-hostage/

Judge rebukes ex-DOJ attorney for AI-generated brief

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rebukes-ex-doj-attorney-for-ai-generated-brief/

Alameda County accused of secretly recording attorney-client jail meetings, raising constitutional concerns

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/04/26/alameda-county-jail-illegal-recording-attorney-client/

People Using AI to Represent Themselves in Court Are Clogging the System

https://archive.ph/m4e4T

Colorado legislation hoped to clear up forensic scientist Missy Woods scandal. Defense attorneys are now overwhelmed with cases

https://www.cpr.org/2026/04/27/legislation-missy-woods-scandal-defense-attorney/

Junk Science Warning: LA prosecutors ask state Supreme Court to reinstate death penalty for Jimmie Duncan based bite-mark evidence

https://veritenews.org/2026/04/28/jimmie-duncan-death-row-supreme-court/

Junk Science Warning: Capitol police officer wrongfully accused of planting bombs on Jan. 6th based on ‘gait analysis’

In their story, Mr. Baker and Mr. Hanneman wrote that they had arranged a forensic study of Ms. Kerkhoff’s gait by an unnamed analyst. A “software algorithm,” the story said, showed she was a 94 percent match to the pipe bomber. The analyst determined that the match was closer to 98 percent based on “visual observations.” The story also said the findings had been confirmed by several anonymous intelligence sources. The writers said this “gait analysis” had been done by using security video of Ms. Kerkhoff as well as footage of her playing soccer eight years earlier, and comparing them with the Jan. 5 video of the pipe-bomb suspect

https://archive.ph/2hWgL

Junk Science Warning: Debunked Arson Science Keeps Mother Imprisoned for Nearly 30 Years

https://theappeal.org/maria-montalvo-arson-junk-science-new-jersey/

One of Detroit Police Department’s toughest homicide interrogators accused of coercing false confessions

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/26/us/detroit-barbara-simon-exonerations

YAWN: FDA May Finally Make It Illegal to Shock Autistic Kids as Punishment

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/fda-electric-shock-disabled-autistic-children-punishment/

NY man’s name cleared after decades in prison for ’93 murder; judge faults former prosecutors for ‘grievous wrong’

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/28/harlem-mans-name-cleared-decades-prison-murder/

Innocent man beaten by NYPD officers files $100M lawsuit (cops didn’t activate bodycams)

https://nypost.com/2026/04/28/us-news/nyc-man-beaten-by-cops-in-liquor-store-to-sue-for-100-million/

How the NYPD Shot Down Gang Database Reforms

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/28/nypd-gang-database-reforms-mamdani-jessica-tisch/

Suffolk County police debut $60K Corvette Stingray

https://nypost.com/2026/04/29/us-news/long-island-cops-rock-60k-corvette-stingray-in-fast-and-furious-warning-to-drunk-drivers/

Judge dismisses charges against Suffolk County Police Chief accused of indecent exposure, because he resigned

https://longisland.news12.com/charges-including-public-lewdness-to-be-dropped-against-former-suffolk-police-chief-james-burke

MA defendants on more than 140 cases notified of probe into state police trooper Sgt. Scott Quigley

https://archive.ph/ICXJ8

MA State Police Reputation Cooked!

https://archive.ph/uEcmH

MA corrections officer arraigned on child rape, human trafficking charges

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2026/04/27/suffolk-county-corrections-officer-arraigned-on-child-rape-human-trafficking-charges/

MA police department has been trying to fire a detective since 2018. He’s still getting paid

https://archive.ph/j1BfL

PA school security chief and a cop arrested on child porn charges

https://6abc.com/post/former-bristol-twp-school-security-chief-police-officer-arrested-child-porn-charges/18960517/

Two CT cops fired after sexual relationship with teen

https://archive.ph/kGaDb

AR cop arrested for sexual assault of a juvenile

https://dps.arkansas.gov/news/former-swifton-police-officer-arrested-for-sexual-assault/

AR cop arrested and fired for sexual assault of a woman

https://katv.com/news/local/de-queen-police-officer-fired-and-arrested-following-sexual-assault-investigation

IL cop arrested for sexually abusing a woman during a traffic stop

https://abc7chicago.com/post/park-city-officer-charged-sexual-assault-duty-illinois-state-police/19006333/

FL cop arrested for killing a 6-year-old while driving over 100 MPH with not safety lights or siren

https://www.fox13news.com/news/temple-terrace-police-officer-arrested-following-deadly-crash-ttpd

GA cop on leave after Walmart body slamming man who’s arms were behind his back

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/lovejoy-police-officer-place-leave-following-walmart-incident

LA cop on leave for domestic abuse

https://www.knoe.com/2026/04/28/mpd-officer-arrested-placed-administrative-leave/

TX cop arrested for assaulting a woman

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/04/29/san-antonio-park-police-officer-arrested-after-assaulting-woman-bcso-says/

IL cop arrested for DUI

https://www.mystateline.com/news/rockford-police-officer-arrested-and-charged-for-dui-authorities-say/

Purdue Pharma fined $5.5 billion for opioid scandal

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/purdue-pharma-be-sentenced-paving-way-opioid-settlement-2026-04-28/

]]><![CDATA[TikTok Shop And Amazon sell 8647 merch, while sucking up to Trump ]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/tiktok-shop-and-amazon-sell-8647https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/tiktok-shop-and-amazon-sell-8647Fri, 01 May 2026 21:28:24 GMT

Florida congressional candidate posts picture with ‘8647’ hat

https://katv.com/news/nation-world/florida-congressional-candidate-posts-picture-with-86-47-hat-donald-trump-fbi-libs-of-tiktok

‘Arrest us, I dare you’: Air Force vet Mark Davis selling ‘8647’ merch hits out over Comey indictment

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/air-force-candidate-8647-trump-comey-b2969173.html

TikTok shop sells 8647 merchandise

https://shop.tiktok.com/us/k/8647-shirts

Trump’s billionaire partner Larry Ellison owns part of TikTok

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr-ryan/our-work/carr-ryan-commentary/under-us-ownership-tiktok-poses-even-greater-threat

Amazon sells a hug variety of 8647 merchandise, while hiring Donal Trump Jr. to host the new Apprentice TV show
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/apprentice-reboot-donald-trump-jr-host-amazon-1236733857/

Amazon list of 8647 merchandise

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=86+47&crid=2BLXQ5S69BB97&sprefix=86+47+%2Caps%2C151&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

A website called 8647 sells nothing but 8647 merchandise

https://www.8647gear.com/shop

Etsy list of 8647 merchandise

https://www.etsy.com/search?q=86-47&ref=search_bar

Redbubble 8647 merchandise

https://www.redbubble.com/shop?query=86-47&ref=search_box

Redbubble also sells 8647 acrylic blocks

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/86+47+acrylic-blocks

As you can see 8647 is everywhere, so if Trump’s DOJ is willing to prosecute James Comey, why aren’t they also prosecuting Larry Ellison (TikTok), and Jeff Bezos (Amazon)?

]]><![CDATA[Trump Reveals Plan to Turn All Schools into Ballrooms]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/trump-reveals-plan-to-turn-all-schoolshttps://joecadillic.substack.com/p/trump-reveals-plan-to-turn-all-schoolsWed, 29 Apr 2026 15:15:51 GMT

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]]><![CDATA[U.S. Privacy And World Privacy News]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-3bfhttps://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-3bfTue, 28 Apr 2026 14:02:31 GMTWhy Trump Wants AI in Federal Government: ‘Syophantic’ AI Flatters People and Suggests They’re Not to Blame

In a recent study published in the journal Science, Myra Cheng, a computer science Ph.D. student and her colleagues report that AI models offer affirmations more often than people do, even for morally dubious or troubling scenarios. And they found that this sycophancy was something that people trusted and preferred in an AI — even as it made them less inclined to apologize or take responsibility for their behavior.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5792867/ai-chatbot-flattery-mental-health-risks

The federal government is buying AI faster than it is assigning authority
https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2026/04/government-buying-ai-faster-it-assigning-authority/412985

ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed

“In Paul Heaton’s exchange with ChatGPT, Heaton used the Reid technique, the confrontational interrogation method first developed in the 1950s that has since been adopted by police departments all over the country. The man for whom it’s named, John Reid, published his methodology after winning acclaim for getting a man named Darrel Parker to confess to raping and murdering his own wife — an origin story with a haunting twist. It worked. By the end of their exchange, ChatGPT agreed that an investigation had shown it hacked Heaton’s accounts and sent messages that appeared to come from him — something the bot could not and, in fact, did not do.”

https://archive.ph/EtfFL

The Middle East Working Group convinced the DNC not to accept any resolution’s (weapons sales to Israel)

https://archive.ph/lKFQR

Lawmakers consider terror designations for ransomware hackers targeting hospitals

https://consortiumnews.com/2026/04/20/dnc-winners-ethnic-cleansing-genocide/

https://cyberscoop.com/lawmakers-ponder-terrorism-designations-homicide-charges-over-hospital-ransomware-attacks/

Trump’s DOJ wants Michigan’s personal voter data for ‘improper purposes’

https://stateline.org/2026/04/14/repub/trumps-doj-wants-personal-voter-data-for-improper-purposes-michigan-official-says/

Senators urge US Postal Service not to implement Trump executive mail-in voting order

https://www.reuters.com/world/senators-urge-us-postal-service-not-implement-trump-mail-in-voting-order-2026-04-21/

Democrats sue to block Trump’s executive order targeting mail ballots

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/democrats-sue-to-block-trumps-executive-order-targeting-mail-ballots

Trump’s Federal Reserve chair nominee questioned on Epstein links and 2020 election conspiracies

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-news-live-updates-b2961909.html

Trump’s DOJ sued over campaign to amass data on millions of voters

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/voting-rights-groups-sue-doj-to-block-national-voter-surveil-and-purge-database

EPIC Urges Appeals Court to Protect Voter Privacy and Refuse to Enforce DOJ’s Voter Roll Demand

https://epic.org/epic-urges-sixth-circuit-to-protect-voter-privacy-and-refuse-to-enforce-dojs-voter-roll-demand/

CORRUPTION WARNING: Mississippi’s Republican Gov. Calls Special Session to Redraw Congressional Maps
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/24/ms-gov-reeves-calls-special-session-for-redistricting/89769748007/

12 Republican AG’s Petition Court to Defend Trump’s Executive Order on Citizenship Verification in Election

https://www.rocketcitynow.com/article/news/state/steve-marshall-11-gop-ags-defend-citizenship-lists-ordered-by-trump-as-optional-election-help/525-c7355d39-6cd2-4277-969c-a40105b1967b

Trump’s election fraud claims spread distrust before midterms

https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-election-fraud-claims-spread-distrust-before-midterms-reutersipsos-poll-2026-04-23/

Lawsuit Seeks Records on White House’s Potential IRS Weaponization Against Trump’s Perceived Political Opponents

https://americanoversight.org/lawsuit-seeks-records-on-white-houses-potential-irs-weaponization-against-presidents-perceived-political-opponents/


What are your chances of being audited now that the IRS is using AI?

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/25/business/chance-of-audit-irs-ai-use

Trump’s Treasury Department canceled Booz contracts over vetting of IRS leaker

https://fedscoop.com/scott-bessent-explains-treasury-decision-to-cancel-booz-allen-contracts/

Intuit and H&R Block set lobbying records the year Trump killed Direct File
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/04/intuit-and-hr-block-set-lobbying-records-the-year-direct-file-died

https://komonews.com/news/local/filing-taxes-free-preparation-and-filing-options-us-treasury-irs-direct-file-cashapp-free-file-taxes-protect-against-fraud

Pennsylvania court finds state constitutional right to abortion

https://penncapital-star.com/abortion-policy/commonwealth-court-rules-the-state-constitution-includes-a-fundamental-right-to-abortion/

Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh vows not to be Trump’s ‘sock puppet’

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/business/live-news/kevin-warsh-fed-confirmation-hearing

Trump’s Pick for Federal Reserve Chair Puts Loyalty First

“American monetary and bank safety policy will now depend on a demented ventriloquist in the White House.”

https://www.citizen.org/news/trumps-pick-for-fed-chair-puts-loyalty-first/

CBS’s new MAGA-friendly anchor Tony Dokoupil triggers staff revolt: ‘He completely lost the room’

https://archive.ph/IWloF

Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums

https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trumps-budget-would-gut-local-libraries-and-museums-congress-not-board

School, library groups urge FCC not to create proposed E-Rate bidding portal

https://statescoop.com/schools-libraries-reject-fcc-erate-portal-proposal/

Trump Boasts of Apple CEO Tim Cook ‘Kissing His Ass’

“When I got the call I said, wow, it’s Tim Apple (Cook!) calling, how big is that? I was very impressed with myself to have the head of Apple calling to ‘kiss my ass,’” Trump wrote in the Truth Social post.

https://archive.ph/XdvEz

https://www.theverge.com/tech/915638/i-was-very-impressed-with-myself-to-have-the-head-of-apple-calling-to-kiss-my-ass

Tim Cook will still be Apple’s Trump whisperer

https://www.theverge.com/policy/915422/tim-cook-apple-chairman-trump-policy

Apple’s Tim Cook leaves behind complicated legacy on privacy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/apple-tim-cook-privacy

Judge orders SEC to release 2018 video testimony of Elon Musk

https://www.rcfp.org/musk-sec-testimony-jigsaw-foia-2/

Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name

“Mohamad Al-Khayyat was already a step ahead. He said he had planned to propose a Trump-branded resort. At the same time, his two older brothers were negotiating an even bigger real estate partnership with Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter, and Jared Kushner, her husband, to help them finance a multibillion-dollar resort in Albania.”

https://archive.ph/sn4So

Corrupt Trump Administration Finally Discloses White House Ballroom Funding

“This is the first time we don’t have to take the word of the White House; we can see details of this scheme in black and white,” said Public Citizen Democracy Advocate Jon Golinger. “This document reveals that anonymous donations are the heart of this agreement. The questions this raises are, of the hundreds of millions being funneled in secret, who are these anonymous donors, and what are they hiding? The American people deserve answers, and we’ll keep fighting until they get them.”

https://www.citizen.org/news/trump-administration-finally-discloses-white-house-ballroom-funding-contract-in-response-to-public-citizens-foia-lawsuit/

Republican Congressional Committee exempts business owners from disclosing their true identities to the government

“There could be no greater gift to the fentanyl traffickers, fraudsters, and U.S. adversaries that rely on the anonymity that shell companies provide than gutting the Corporate Transparency Act,” said Erica Hanichak, deputy director of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition. “I’ve seen firsthand how anonymous U.S. shell companies are used by kleptocrats, foreign officials, and cartels to launder illicit funds and purchase luxury assets in this country,” LaPrevotte said. “Gutting the Corporate Transparency Act would eliminate a key tool needed by law enforcement to follow the money and stop the United States from being a safe haven for criminal proceeds.”

https://www.occrp.org/en/news/us-congressional-committee-chips-away-at-corporate-transparency-act

Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say/

Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are “nonbinding” (selling customer data)

“AT&T and Verizon, which were fined a total of $104 million for selling users’ real-time location data without consent, claim the FCC’s penalty system deprived them of the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. But even if AT&T and Verizon lose this case, they could get a victory of sorts because the FCC and justices seem to agree that FCC fine decisions are nonbinding and require a court decision to enforce them. A government lawyer told justices that the FCC may change the language of its forfeiture orders to make it clearer that fines don’t have to be paid until after a jury trial.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/supreme-court-arguments-make-it-clear-that-fcc-fines-are-nonbinding/

Paramount Invites Trump FCC Chair Brendan Carr to White House Correspondents Dinner

“FCC Chair Brendan Carr said he was not sitting with CBS News, which has invited Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top Trump adviser Stephen Miller. However, Status reported that the organization’s parent company, David Ellison’s Paramount, has invited Carr to one of its tables.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fcc-chairman-brendan-carr-attend-141945249.html

Judge tosses Laura Loomer’s defamation suit against Bill Maher

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/22/judge-tosses-laura-loomer-bill-maher-defamation-suit-00887992

Why Trump’s Weird Billionaire Pal Peter Thiel Is A Threat to Press Freedoms

For $2,000, anyone—the subject of a story, a competitor, a political opponent, a total stranger—can file a challenge against a published article. A team of Objection’s freelance investigators, which the company claims includes former FBI, NSA, and CIA personnel, then assembles an evidence file, while the reporter is invited to respond and submit their own documentation. The material is then handed to what Objection calls an AI tribunal: a jury of frontier language models from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Mistral, and Google, supervised by a proprietary system branded a “Judicial-Purpose Transformer.” This body, if you can call it that, then issues a verdict on each ‘factual’ claim in the story.

https://archive.ph/34HWR

Disgust as Eric Trump Brags About Scoring $24M Pentagon Deal

https://www.commondreams.org/news/eric-trump-pentagon-contract

‘This is a heist’: Eric Trump’s Pentagon deal boast sees him compared to Hunter Biden

https://www.mexc.com/news/1048823

Billionaire Sun Sues Trump Crypto Project Alleging Extortion

https://thehill.com/business/personal-finance/5842927-justin-sun-sues-trump-crypto/

Investors lost billions on Trump’s memecoin

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/investors-lost-billions-on-trumps-memecoin-another-gala-wont-fix-that/

Trump freezes $344M in Iranian cryptocurrency

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/24/politics/us-freezes-cryptocurrency-iran

Trump to deliver remarks to crypto conference on Saturday

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-deliver-remarks-crypto-conference-saturday-white-house-says-2026-04-24/

Johnson & Johnson to offer four prescription medicines on TrumpRx website
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/johnson-johnson-launch-trumprx-with-four-its-prescription-drugs-cbs-news-reports-2026-04-24/

Senate Republicans Block Sanders Amendment to Cut US Drug Prices
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5844568-sanders-amendment-drug-prices/

RFK Jr. son launches investment fund tied to MAHA movement

https://archive.is/Y1I5s

Trump Media CEO replaced after $6 billion stock plunge

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/insight/trump-media-replaces-ceo-after-6b-stock-value-wipeout/gm-GM23088102

Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19M to a Grieving Family

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-joseph-schwartz-pardon-lawsuit

House Republicans roll out national privacy bill

https://cyberscoop.com/house-republicans-release-national-privacy-legislation/

The new federal consumer privacy bill isn’t very consumer-friendly

https://statescoop.com/secure-data-act-privacy-bill-not-consumer-friendly/

House Republicans unveil data privacy law that would override state protections

https://therecord.media/house-republicans-unveil-data-privacy-law-override-state-measures

https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/insights/publications/2026/04/house-republicans-introduce-secure-data-act

Trump fires entire science board with no warning or explanation

https://archive.ph/bkxGL

Data Centers Responsible For All Growth In US Electricity Use Last Year

“In the United States, data centers made up half of all growth in electricity use.”

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2026/key-findings

Data center growth threatens air quality and progress toward cleaner energy grid

https://pirg.org/updates/data-center-growth-threatens-air-quality-and-progress-toward-cleaner-energy-grid/

Maine Governor Vetoes Data Center Moratorium

“With this veto, Governor Mills has demonstrated a shocking disconnect with the people of Maine, their elected legislators, and a large and growing national movement against the reckless explosion of this highly problematic industry,” said Mitch Jones of Food and Water Watch, a nonprofit focused on climate and corporate accountability. “Mainers and people across the country are becoming increasingly fed up with the skyrocketing electricity rates, false jobs promises, and harmful industrialization of small-town communities that hyperscale data centers bring wherever they land.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/maine-data-center-janet-mills-veto/


Utah’s hyperscale’ data center will consume more power than the entire state

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/04/25/hyperscale-data-center-may-be/

Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

https://archive.ph/L1twq

Utility companies shut off Americans’ power 13.4M times and gas 1.7M times in 2024

“The new data comes just after the Trump administration proposed, for a sixth time, eliminating the $4 billion LIHEAP program that helps low-income Americans pay for electricity and natural gas, arguing that consumer protections already exist to prevent people from being cut off from the fuel they need to heat and cool their homes.”

https://archive.ph/ZvMRL

How the First Surveillance Pricing Ban in America Falls Short

https://gizmodo.com/how-the-first-surveillance-pricing-ban-in-america-falls-short-2000749738

ADT data breach affects 10M customers

https://www.pcmag.com/news/adt-data-breach-shinyhunters-hackers-say-they-stole-10-million-records

The hidden power keeping wages low

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/04/21/g-s1-118071/the-hidden-power-keeping-wages-low

The American Library Association has released its list of the most challenged books of 2025

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/20/nx-s1-5791617/american-library-association-challenged-books

Report on State of Libraries Exposes Trump Attacks and Record-Breaking Book Ban Efforts

https://www.commondreams.org/news/banned-books-2025

Middle Eastern News Sites Al-Fassel and Pishtaz Are Actually U.S. Govt Propaganda Operations

https://archive.ph/sMl0r

Judge blocks reworked Arkansas law restricting minors’ social media

“Imposing small burdens on vast quantities of speech for no appreciable benefit is not consistent with the First Amendment,” District Judge Timothy Brooks wrote. “Arkansas cannot sentence speech on the internet to death by a thousand cuts. The default provisions likely violate the First Amendment.”

https://arkansasadvocate.com/2026/04/20/federal-judge-blocks-reworked-arkansas-law-restricting-minors-social-media/

Meta to spy on what topics kid’s search for and report it to their parents

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/meta-will-now-allow-parents-to-see-the-topics-their-child-discussed-with-meta-ai/

OpenAI briefs US agencies, Five Eyes on new cybersecurity product

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-briefs-us-agencies-five-eyes-new-cyber-product-axios-reports-2026-04-22/

YAWN: Florida AG Launches Criminal Investigation Into OpenAI’s Role in Mass Shooting

https://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general-james-uthmeier-launches-criminal-investigation-openai-chatgpt

Agriculture Department kicks off $300M Palantir deal on IT, national security work

https://fedscoop.com/palantir-deal-with-agriculture-department-usda-farmers/

Amazon to Invest an Additional $5 Billion in Anthropic, With Plans to Invest $20 Billion

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/amazon-invests-5b-in-anthropic-as-startup-secures-up-to-5gw-of-trainium-chips/ar-AA21kUoA

White House meets with Anthropic CEO amid hopes for a truce

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/17/white-house-to-meet-with-anthropic-ceo-as-mythos-anxiety-spreads-00878960

The FTC’s AI portfolio is about to get bigger

https://cyberscoop.com/ftc-ai-portolio-getting-bigger-take-it-down-voice-cloning/

Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-start-capturing-employee-mouse-movements-keystrokes-ai-training-data-2026-04-21/

Health-care AI is here. We don’t know if it actually helps patients

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/24/1136352/health-care-ai-dont-know-actually-helps-patients/

Supreme Court Will Review FCC’s Power to Impose Financial Penalties

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2026-04-21/us-supreme-court-to-assess-fcc-power-to-fine-in-clash-with-wireless-carriers

The Forest Service plans to relocate its headquarters to Utah with or without approval from Congress

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/reorganization/2026/04/forest-service-plans-to-carry-out-major-reorganization-with-or-without-approval-from-congress/

Feds ramp up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices

https://theconversation.com/us-government-ramps-up-mass-surveillance-with-help-of-ai-tech-data-brokers-and-your-apps-and-devices-277440

Your Smartwatch May Be Getting 6 Key Health Metrics Wrong

https://www.sciencealert.com/your-smartwatch-may-be-getting-6-key-health-metrics-wrong

Firefox flaw enables cross-site tracking, undermines Tor Browser defenses

https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/

Waymo Taxi drives through crime scene tape, on the wrong side of the road

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30rgpd2n14o

State & Local Privacy News

NH- JUNK SCIENCE WARNING: Refusing a breathalyzer test will bring a longer license suspension

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/04/21/new-hampshire-alcohol-breath-test-law-ayotte-penalty-dui-refusal-loophole

MA- Fear of ICE keeps immigrant survivors of domestic violence out of courts

https://www.masslive.com/boston/2026/04/fear-of-ice-keeps-immigrant-survivors-of-domestic-violence-out-of-massachusetts-courts.html

MA- BS WARNING: Red Sox say they ‘didn’t know’ about DHS posting Fenway on social media

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-23/red-sox-didnt-know-about-dhs-posting-fenway-on-social-media-says-team-president


MA- Michael Minogue, a political newcomer, claims GOP endorsement governor at convention

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/04/25/minogue-gop-endorsement-massachusetts-governor

NY- Albany considers limits on Flock Safety camera data

https://gothamist.com/news/albany-mulls-new-limits-on-data-from-digital-license-plate-readers

NY- Tompkins County votes to end use of Flock license plate readers

https://www.wskg.org/regional-news/2026-04-21/tompkins-county-votes-to-end-use-of-automatic-license-plate-readers

PA- Philly City Council moves to regulate windshield barnacles after court blocks police enforcement

https://6abc.com/post/windshield-barnacle-ban-ordinance-introduced-philadelphia-councilmember-mark-squilla/18682869/

PA- Philadelphia police sued over “barnacles” on legally parked vehicles

https://www.legalnewsline.com/pennsylvania-record/lawsuit-fights-parking-barnacles-in-philadelphia/article_4831fa44-b465-44da-b111-24508235512b.html

LA- House approves bill requiring minors to have parental permission to download apps

https://www.katc.com/news/covering-louisiana/house-approves-bill-to-require-minors-to-have-parental-permission-to-download-apps

WI- City of Oshkosh drops Flock cameras after police chief raises trust and access issues

https://www.thenorthwestern.com/story/news/local/oshkosh/2026/04/22/oshkosh-rescinds-flock-safety-contract-after-police-chief-raises-concerns/89745485007/

IA- House approves bill adding restrictions on Flock license plate readers

https://archive.ph/RJmVf

IA- Penalty for animal rights activists who record protests upheld by Appeals Court

https://www.courthousenews.com/iowa-penalty-for-animal-rights-activists-who-record-protests-upheld-at-eighth-circuit/

AK- Conway Police issues propaganda statement to dispel rumors about Flock camera use

https://www.kark.com/crime/conway-police-department-issues-statement-to-dispel-rumors-about-flock-camera-use/

ID- Voter initiative would ban Flock Cameras in Wilder

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/voter-initiative-would-ban-flock-cameras-wilder/277-26d8e647-eb7a-4a83-a677-e0b478351516


CO- City of Durango’s ICE mask-ban proposal hits snag

https://www.courthousenews.com/colorado-mask-prohibition-proposal-hits-snag-after-california-vigilante-ruling/

CO- Boulder police taking bids to replace Flock Safety license plate readers

https://archive.ph/e9l6s

CO- State Senate votes to weaken state’s Right to Repair protections

https://pirg.org/media-center/colorado-senate-votes-to-weaken-colorados-right-to-repair-protections/

CA- The State’s richest city Newport Beach wants to build a police station on ‘Bunnyhenge’

“The new police station would take approximately 2 acres of the 6-acre Civic Center Park, specifically the area that currently hosts Bunnyhenge.”

https://www.sfgate.com/california/article/bunnyhenge-newport-beach-22220242.php

CA- Where are the closest Flock cameras to your home campus?

https://peraltacitizen.com/2026/04/21/surveillance-around-peralta-where-are-the-closest-flock-cameras-to-your-home-campus/

WA- New Public Records Act Exemption Limits Disclosure of Flock Safety Camera Data

https://mrsc.org/stay-informed/mrsc-insight/april-2026/license-plate-reader-data

OR- New state law regulates police use of license plate readers. Here’s how it works

https://www.chronline.com/stories/a-new-oregon-law-regulates-police-use-of-license-plate-readers-heres-how-it-works,400937

World Privacy News

UK’s MHRA admits 1 in 7 people had severe adverse events from COVID injections

“15,764 (52.1%) of those reporting vaccination reported experiencing at least one adverse reaction. However, nearly all were expected acute reactions and 4,134 (13.7%) reported an event considered medically serious.” 52% experienced an acute reaction, and nearly 14% experienced a “medically serious” or severe adverse event after COVID vaccination. 14% is 1 in 7 people – 1 in 7 people experienced “medically serious” harm from a covid vaccine that they were unnecessarily injected with.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40900408/

https://expose-news.com/2026/04/22/i-in-7-people-have-severe-adverse-events/

Cruel and Unusual: Israel’s “Death Penalty for Terrorists” Law

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/cruel-and-unusual--israel-s--death-penalty-for-terrorists--law

No war crimes in Gaza, says Nigel Farage’s Israel tsar

https://www.declassifieduk.org/no-war-crimes-in-gaza-says-nigel-farages-israel-tsar/

UN calls on EU to suspend Israel trade agreement

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/04/un-experts-call-immediate-suspension-eu-israel-trade-agreement-minimum

EU declines to suspend Israel trade agreement despite international pleas

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-reject-suspend-israel-association-agreement/

Germany unveils strategy for becoming Europe’s strongest military by 1939, sorry I meant 2039

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/04/22/germany-unveils-strategy-for-becoming-europes-strongest-military-by-2039/

German chancellor Merz has opened 300 criminal cases against people who have insulted him

https://ua.news/en/world/v-nimechchini-vidkrito-300-sprav-za-obrazi-na-adresu-kantslera-mertsa-v-interneti

PRIVACY NIGHTMARE: Turkish government to force over 1M social media users to verify their IDs through e-Government
“Turkey is preparing a sweeping overhaul of social media regulations that would require users to verify their identities through the e-Government (e-Devlet) system before accessing major platforms, in a move officials say will increase transparency and curb online crime, Justice Minister Akın Gürlek said. The minister said the draft legislation, described by authorities as a world first, would apply to platforms with more than 1 million daily users in Türkiye, including Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X. Under the proposed system, users opening accounts on social media platforms would be redirected to the e-Government portal, where their identities would be verified. Instead of sharing personal data directly with the platforms, the system would generate a unique, user-specific digital key confirming the verification.”

https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/legislation/turkiye-plans-id-verification-for-social-media-users-via-e-government

19 Million French Citizens Affected by National Digital ID Data Breach

https://cybernews.com/security/ants-hack-france-19-million-records-id-agency-breach/


When a Train Ticket Costs Your Passport: The Eurail Breach and the Digital ID Problem

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-eurail-breach-and-the-digital-id-problem

Europe’s uncertain plans for rolling out biometric border system ETIAS

https://www.statewatch.org/news/2026/april/europe-s-uncertain-plans-for-rolling-out-the-automated-border-system-etias/

Restricting Real-time Remote Biometric ID Systems for Law Enforcement Purposes

Real-Time Biometric ID (RBI) systems can create a risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals simply by being deployed. The European Commission Guidelines and the AI Act Recitals both emphasize the risk of a “chilling effect” on the exercise of public freedoms that can come from a perception of ubiquitous surveillance. The Guidelines further identify the “feeling of constant surveillance” the deployment of RBI systems in public spaces may elicit risks “indirectly dissuading the exercise of freedom of assembly and other fundamental rights,” and technical failures in AI systems may also produce discriminatory effects based on sensitive personal characteristics such as age, ethnicity, race, sex, or disability status.

https://fpf.org/blog/red-lines-under-the-eu-ai-act-restricting-real-time-remote-biometric-identification-systems-for-law-enforcement-purposes/

BIG BROTHER WARNING: Tinder unveils its World ID verified-human badge globally

https://world.org/blog/announcements/online-dating-gaming-event-tickets-proof-of-human-everyday-life

Surveillance companies are exploiting telecom system to reveal a users location
“In late 2024, the Citizen Lab launched an investigation into coordinated location-tracking activity following the identification of a series of unusual events in mobile signalling firewall logs and further intelligence provided by Cellusys. What initially appeared to be an isolated incident targeting a single mobile subscriber led to a broader investigation that uncovered campaigns by two distinct CSVs conducting long-term espionage operations by exploiting the global telecommunications ecosystem.”

https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/

Panasonic Unveils (QR Code) Facial Recognition KPAS Cloud “Site Management Service”

Panasonic Connect Group has updated the package service “Field Management Service” of the facial recognition cloud service KPAS Cloud, and will start offering a new option “QR code issuing function for face registration” from April 20th.

https://news.panasonic.com/jp/topics/206675

Belarus- UN experts warn of torture, suicide attempts, deaths and reprisals in custody

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/04/belarus-un-experts-warn-torture-suicide-attempts-deaths-and-reprisals

Georgia- The Fatal Flaws in the Government’s National Police Modernization

https://www.justsecurity.org/136827/georgia-national-police-modernization-flaws/

Greece- Government Exempts UK Travelers from EES Biometric Registration

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2026/04/20/greece-eases-entryexit-system-ees-border-checks-for-british-travellers

UK- Government wants to imprison Pro-Palestine protesters for ‘terrorism’ amid media blackout

“Under normal circumstances, the defendants would face a maximum of four years if convicted, and serve less than half their sentences. Under the draconian terror designation — which jurors have not been notified of — the activists could spend as many as eight years in prison. Their release would have to be approved by a dedicated board for terror cases.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/12/uk-jail-palestine-action-terrorism-uk/

UK- Rights groups condemns convictions of two pro-Palestine protesters

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/22/uk-joint-statement-on-the-conviction-of-ben-jamal-and-chris-nineham-0

UK- Government arms shipment to Israel seized in Belgium

https://www.military.com/feature/2026/04/18/belgium-halts-uk-military-shipment-bound-israel-amid-legal-scrutiny.html

UK- Trade minister Sir Chris Bryant lied to parliament over arms exports to Israel

https://www.declassifieduk.org/minister-misled-parliament-over-arms-exports-to-israel/

UK- Politicians call for sanctions on Israeli charity helping citizens move to illegal settlements in the West Bank

https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-politicians-call-for-sanctions-on-israeli-charity/

UK- Met Police wins high court challenge over use of live facial recognition

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/met-police-wins-high-court-152858882.html


UK- Biobank health data of 500K citizens DNA listed for sale in China

“The Biobank is a collection of health data offered by volunteers which has been used to help improvements in detection and treatment of dementia, some cancers and Parkinson’s. It has collected intimate details - including whole body scans, DNA sequences and their medical records - from hundreds of thousands of volunteers for over two decades.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvxgl3n138o

UK- The National Cyber Security Center claims 100 nations have spyware that can hack their infrastructure, companies and private networks

https://www.politico.eu/article/u-k-intelligence-100-nations-have-spyware-that-can-hack-britain/

UK- BIG BROTHER WARNING: Retail stores send real-time footage of suspected shoplifters to Met police

https://news.met.police.uk/news/met-cracks-down-on-prolific-shoplifters-with-new-crime-fighting-technology-508443

UK- PlayStation Requires Mandatory Facial Recognition Age Verification

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/support/account/age-verification-faq/

UK- The MHRA claims their surveillance of pregnant and breast feeding women raises no safety concerns

https://expose-news.com/2026/04/22/safety-concerns-for-pregnant-and-breastfeeding-women/

IRL- Amnesty International and Human Rights First urge government to stop ICE from using airspace for unlawful removals

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/04/stop-unlawful-ice-flights-through-ireland/

IRL- President Forces Asylum Seekers to Submit to Eurodac Biometric Enrollment

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/04/22/catherine-connolly-signs-international-protection-bill-into-law/

Vietnam- The Phu Quoc International Airport to use SITA facial recgonition to ID passengers

https://www.sita.aero/pressroom/news-releases/phu-quoc-set-to-become-a-major-asia-pacific-aviation-hub-with-scalable-fully-automated-passenger-processing/

India- Government Drops Plan to Force Aadhaar App Preload on Smartphones

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/exclusive-india-drops-proposal-mandate-134228498.html

Pakistan- Government approves facial recognition e-gates at every airport

https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2640833/pakistan

Bangladesh- Human Rights Watch condemns president for arresting 4 people who “insulted the government”

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/23/bangladesh-4-arrested-for-insulting-government

SLC Digital and Ideco work together to expand digital IDs in South Africa

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/slc-digital-ideco-partner-launch-160000233.html

AU- Persona and ConnectIDto expand digital ID age checks

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/persona-and-connectid-deliver-privacy-first-age-verification-for-the-australian-market-302747476.html

Brazil- Bill Would Require Facial Recognition for Age Gates

https://www.almg.gov.br/projetos-de-lei/PL/5457/2026

Argentina- Government blocks journalists wearing smart glasses from entering Casa Rosada

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/argentina-blocks-media-access-casa-rosada-citing-espionage-complaint-2026-04-23/

]]><![CDATA[U.S. News/Police Violence]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-d95https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-d95Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:01:54 GMTTrump has pocketed over $4 billion from untraceable crypto currency ventures

https://windycitytimes.com/2026/04/24/trump-has-to-pay-out-of-his-pocket-for-january-6/

The Haake Take
Trump's $4 billion empire could evaporate
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Bernie Sanders Blasts Trump Family’s ‘Unprecedented Kleptocracy’

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/bernie-sanders-blasts-trump-familys-013122722.html

Trump Administration Stake In Intel Is Worth $36 Billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/intel-stock-price-rally-us-government-investment-stake-value-trump-2026-4

Trump ‘blocked from accessing nuclear codes’ by general

https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/cia-analyst-claims-trump-tried-37047343

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/general-reportedly-blocked-trump-from-using-nuclear-codes/gm-GMLEFEF1A2

Trump orders U.S. military to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian boats mining Strait of Hormuz

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/live-updates-trump-iran-hormuz-blockade-ceasefire-talks-lebanon-israel-rcna341571


Iranian Group Submits Evidence of US-Israeli War Crimes to International Criminal Court

https://www.commondreams.org/news/iran-us-war-crimes

Republican Senate Rejects Democratic Bid to End Iran Conflict for 5th Time

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senate-trump-war-powers-iran/

Trump Labels Female Reporter a ‘Disgrace’ For Asking About When The Iran War Will End

https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-labels-female-reporter-disgrace-234500522.html

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Rare Survivors of Pacific Boat Strikes Allege U.S. Forces Kidnapped and Tortured Them
The extraordinary story you’re about to read, by Camila Lourdes Galarza, is a dark look into what it’s like to live and die on the other side of U.S. headlines. As we expand deeper into reporting on South and Central America, particularly with the hiring of our Latin America bureau chief José Luis Granados Ceja, this is the kind of journalism we hope to…
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Trump invited Russia’s Putin to G20 summit in Miami

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-invite-russias-putin-g20-summit-miami-wapo-reports-2026-04-23/

Trump weighs consequences for NATO allies on ‘naughty’ list

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/22/trump-nato-allies-consequences-list-00883619

Pentagon considers suspending Spain from NATO for not supporting Trump’s war with Iran

https://www.reuters.com/world/pentagon-email-floats-suspending-spain-nato-other-steps-over-iran-rift-source-2026-04-24/

No legal path to suspend Spain from NATO, officials say

https://www.euractiv.com/news/no-legal-path-to-suspend-spain-from-nato-officials-say-as-washington-reportedly-weighs-options/

Cuba confirms meeting with Trump officials, wants energy blockade lifted

https://apnews.com/article/cuba-us-talks-energy-blockade-meeting-bfdd1c4cc35f7c280b790cb500ae0d0c

Trump Invokes Wartime Law to Fulfill ‘Wish List for Oil, Gas, and Coal Industries’
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/trump-invokes-defense-production-act-to-boost-oil-coal-and-energy-infrastructure/

Parents of Iranian Kids Killed by US School Bombing Thank Pope Leo for Speaking Out Against War

https://www.commondreams.org/news/families-children-minab-school-bombing

Trump Administration Is Using Christianity to Justify Murder and Empire

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-is-using-christianity-to-justify-murder-and-empire/

Trump’s Space Force CSO debuts vision for force through 2041

https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4461061/cso-debuts-future-operating-environment-objective-force-at-41st-space-symposium/

Trump’s DOJ Is Pushing For More Denaturalizations

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/politics/justice-dept-citizens-denaturalization.html

Human Rights Groups Issue Stark Warning To World Cup Travelers Heading To U.S.

https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/aclu-joins-coalition-calling-for-fifa-to-uphold-human-rights-ahead-2026-world-cup

Republicans Introduce A National Citizen-Only Voting Amendment

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/786101-laurel-lee-introduces-constitutional-amendment-requiring-citizenship-to-vote/

https://laurellee.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-laurel-lee-introduces-constitutional-amendment-ensure-only-us-citizens

This is how Democrats say Oversight Republicans are trying to quash the Epstein investigation

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/21/congress-epstein-oversight-subpoenas-00882501

Republican House Oversight Committee Ditches Hearings To Dodge Epstein Subpoena Votes

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/epstein-files-house-oversight-committee-pam-bondi_n_69e79cdbe4b0ff46b411885e?origin=home-zone-d-unit

Trump Hates Women He Can’t Control: Marjorie Taylor Greene
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-trump-hates-women-after-megyn-kelly-candace-owens-attacks/

Republican House Oversight Committee ‘Split’ Over Whether Trump Should Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell

How long before Trump issues Jeffery Epstein a pardon posthumously?

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/22/congress/to-pardon-maxwell-or-not-00887823

Will Trump pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? It’s looking more likely

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-pardon-ghislaine-maxwell-11873579

Corrupt DOJ reaches $1.25M settlement with Trump 2016 campaign aide over Russia probe

https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-russia-carter-page-settlement-0987c7480edfbce72ba5954ca057836f

Senate Republicans unveil road map for 3 years of immigration crackdown

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/senate-republicans-immigration-dhs-shutdown-ice.html

Senate Republicans Blasted for Trying to Give Trump’s ICE and Border Patrol Another $140 Billion

https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-republicans-budget-bill

Trump Considers Bailing Out His Family’s Major Business Partner, Khaled Mohamed from the UAE

“President Trump and his family have extensive business ties with the UAE. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, took in about $200 million from the UAE’s sovereign wealth fund for his investment firm, Affinity Partners, in 2023. The next year, Kushner’s firm secured $1.5 billion from Abu Dhabi-based firm Lunate and Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. Last year, the UAE invested $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture run by Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr. Trump happened to lift export restrictions on computer chips at the same time. The Trump Organization is also building a luxury hotel in Dubai.”

https://newrepublic.com/post/209273/trump-considers-bailing-out-uae

Trump Considering Currency Swap With UAE

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/21/trump-iran-war-white-house-uae-currency-swap-line.html

Trump’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism Exposed on ‘Sugar Daddy’ Site

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-donald-trump-terror-official-julia-varvaro-exposed-on-sugar-daddy-site/

Top Trump Countererrorism Official Suspended Over Sugar Baby Allegations

https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-terror-official-julia-varvaro-suspended-for-sugar-baby-allegations/

Another Trump official, Lori Chavez-DeRemer exits in scandal

https://archive.ph/Dbtmw

Meet Paolo Zampolli, the Man at the Center of Trump’s Biggest Scandals

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/meet-paolo-zampolli-trump-world-cup-ice-epstein/

Florida’s new redistricting map likely to touch off lawsuits

https://kfor.com/hill-politics/jeffries-warns-florida-gop-that-new-map-will-backfire-f-around-and-find-out/

Governor DeSantis “begging” Trump for prime role in administration

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/desantis-trump-administration-attorney-general

Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-lowest-100-day-approval-rating-80-years/story?id=121165473

Lawsuit plaintiff arrested by ICE; Attorneys alleging ‘Shocking act of retaliation’

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-17/california-plaintiff-in-lawsuit-challenging-immigration-raids-arrested-by-ice

EFF Sues DHS and ICE For Records on Subpoenas Seeking to Unmask Online Critics

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-dhs-and-ice-records-subpoenas-seeking-unmask-online-critics-0

https://reason.com/2026/04/24/civil-liberties-groups-sue-for-information-on-ices-speech-chilling-subpoenas/

Trump Administration Used Jawboning to Censor ICE Transparency Initiatives

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/04/the-federal-government-used-jawboning-to-censor-ice-transparency-initiatives-rosado-v-bondi.htm

ICE agent charged with assault after grabbing the hair of female protester and putting her in a chokehold

https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/22/ice-agent-arrest-durango-assault-charge/

ICE arrested family less than two days after court ordered their release

https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-detains-family-less-than-two-days-after-court-ordered-their-release-lawyers-2026-04-26/

ICE arrested over 70 Minnesota children during Operation Metro Surge

https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/ice-detention-data-minnesota-children-operation-metro-surge/

Twin Cities mom and daughter recount 55-day ordeal in Texas immigration center

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/columbia-heights-minnesota-mother-daughter-texas-immigration-detainment/

VT prosecutor declines to charge six protesters arrested at South Burlington ICE raid

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/22/chittenden-county-prosecutor-declines-to-charge-six-protesters-arrested-at-south-burlington-ice-raid/

3 Anti-ICE protesters face trial after judge refuses to dismiss case

https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_c42c5365-3a95-4052-92b2-6ef260d7eeae.html

Denver must pay George Floyd protesters $14 million, Appeals Court rules

The appeals court on Tuesday also upheld a related ruling that Denver police Officer Jonathan Christian used excessive force against former state Rep. Elisabeth Epps when he shot her with a pepper ball while she was crossing the street during the 2020 protests. Christian initially was ordered to pay Epps $250,000 in punitive damages, but the judge later reduced that amount to $50,000.

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/04/21/denver-george-floyd-protester-lawsuit/


MA Police Cooperation With ICE is Common: Report

“Citizens for Juvenile Justice findings also showed police departments are communicating with ICE in the field and sharing fingerprint data that isn’t mandated. The report even documents an example of police violating a state Supreme Judicial Court ruling by holding an immigrant for an extended period of time to contact ICE.”

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-27/cooperation-with-ice-common-among-mass-law-enforcement-new-report-finds

New Mexico Becomes the Latest State to End Cooperation With ICE

https://truthout.org/articles/new-mexico-becomes-the-latest-state-to-end-cooperation-with-ice-under-new-law/

Appeals court blocks California law requiring ICE agents show visible ID

Appeals Court rubber-stamps secret police in America.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/federal-appeals-court-blocks-california-law-requiring-federal-agents-w-rcna341510

Houston Irks Gov. Abbott by Reminding Cops To Comply With the Fourth Amendment

https://reason.com/2026/04/22/houston-irks-texas-gov-greg-abbott-by-reminding-cops-to-comply-with-the-fourth-amendment/


ACLU California Defends Court Order Barring Border Patrol’s Unlawful Stop-and-Arrest Practices

“We don’t have to speculate about what would happen if the court order were overturned because we’ve seen the lawlessness and chaos Border Patrol has inflicted upon Kern County, Los Angeles, and cities across the country,” said Bree Bernwanger, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Northern California.

https://www.aclunorcal.org/press-releases/aclu-defends-court-order-barring-border-patrols-unlawful-stop-and-arrest-practices/

Appeals Court Allows Texas Cops to Arrest Immigrants

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/24/texas-immigration-law-sb-4-5th-circuit-court-of-appeals-ruling/

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Can Continue Operating, Appeals Court Says

https://www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit-says-alligator-alcatraz-to-remain-open/

ME officials vote to remove ICE from Cumberland County jail contract with feds

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/22/cumberland-county-officials-vote-to-remove-ice-from-jail-contract-with-feds/

DHS requests $7.5M to develop ICE facial recognition ‘smart glasses’

https://www.courthousenews.com/dhs-startles-congress-with-request-for-millions-to-develop-ice-smart-glasses/

ICE’s Facial Recognition Smart Glasses Are a Worst-Case Scenario
https://gizmodo.com/ices-smart-glasses-are-a-worst-case-scenario-2000749003

ICE Is on a $45 Billion Building Spree. Can Small Towns Support These New Immigration Detention Centers?

https://reason.com/2026/04/21/ice-is-on-a-45-billion-building-spree-can-small-towns-support-these-new-migrant-warehouses/

She raised concerns about Thomson Reuter’s contracts with ICE. Then they fired her after 20 years

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5786915/ice-immigration-enforcement-data-thomson-reuters

Man thrown in Israeli prison at 15, is now imprisoned by ICE in Milwaukee

https://archive.is/7PwC5

ICE accepting bids for 100 parking spaces in NYC

https://archive.ph/dMkRz

Hundreds Protest Against Citizens Bank Over Ties to ICE Prison Partners

https://truthout.org/articles/hundreds-protest-against-citizens-bank-over-ties-to-ice-prison-partners/

Asylum-seekers could lose right to work under proposed Trump administration rules

https://stateline.org/2026/04/23/asylum-seekers-could-lose-right-to-work-under-proposed-trump-administration-rules/

Homeland Security’s New Task Force Website Sanitizes Trump’s Deportation Agenda

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/homeland-security-task-force-new-website-sanitizes-trump-deportations-ai-big-balls/

Senator rips election-denying lawyer protecting Trump: ‘You assert privilege willy-nilly’

https://www.rawstory.com/whitehouse-clark-2020-election-letter/

Trump DOJ sought death penalty for Luigi Mangione but not white supremacist behind 2019 Texas Walmart shooting

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/luigi-mangione-death-penalty

DOJ Settles Surveillance Abuse Lawsuit With Former Trump Campaign Adviser Carter Page

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/22/politics/trump-administration-settles-lawsuit-with-ex-trump-adviser-carter-page

Trump’s DOJ quietly withdraws subpoenas in John Brennan investigation

https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-cia-brennan-investigation-russia-trump-e6f29e0e084c72bb54de74466b3d4c5d

Trump’s DOJ drops probe into Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, to secure Warsh nomination
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxd1v0028vo

Republican Thom Tillis confirms block of Federal Reserve nominee Kevin Warsh until DOJ drops investigation into Powell

https://katv.com/news/nation-world/senator-thom-tillis-confirms-block-of-federal-reserve-chair-nominee-kevin-warsh-jerome-powell-justice-department-investigation

Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh won’t say Trump lost 2020 election

https://www.banking.senate.gov/newsroom/minority/at-hearing-kevin-warsh-refuses-to-say-trump-lost-the-2020-election-fails-to-answer-questions-on-undisclosed-100-million-wealth

In Dead of Night, GOP Sets Vote on Trump Federal Reserve Pick Kevin Warsh

https://www.commondreams.org/news/kevin-warsh-confirmation-vote

Sen. Tillis drops blockade of Trump’s Fed chair nominee, clearing path for Warsh’s confirmation

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna342163

DOJ CORRUPTION: Trump calls for 2020 presidential election to be ‘permanently wiped from the books’ if Southern Poverty Law Center convicted of fraud

https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/us-news/trump-calls-for-2020-presidential-election-to-be-permanently-wiped-from-the-books-if-southern-poverty-law-center-convicted-of-fraud/

DOJ Opens Criminal Probe Of The Southern Poverty Law Center

https://wlos.com/news/nation-world/southern-poverty-law-center-says-it-faces-doj-criminal-probe-over-paid-informants-president-donald-trump-department-of-justice-kash-patel-fbi-todd-blanche-montgomery-alabama-republicans-gop-splc-ceo-bryan-fair-investigation

DOJ CORRUPTION: Southern Poverty Law Center indicted, claims extremist funding

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/04/21/doj-accuses-civil-rights-group-of-funding-kkk-other-extremist-groups/89723041007/

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‘Craven Attempt to Silence Dissent’: Trump DOJ Slammed for Indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center

https://www.commondreams.org/news/craven-attempt-to-silence-dissent-trump-doj-slammed-for-indictment-of-anti-hate-group

Civil rights groups condemn Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictment and prepare for legal fights

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/civil-rights-groups-condemn-southern-180521906.html

Musk’s racist posts about Whiteness have tripled

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/24/musk-online-posts-race-whiteness/

The Short, Ridiculous Trial of a No-Kings Protestor Arrested in an Inflatable Penis Costume

https://archive.ph/uzZYT

Lawmakers question if JetBlue is using customer’s personal data to set ticket prices
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/lawmakers-question-if-jetblue-is-using-personal-data-set-ticket-prices-2026-04-21/

DISGUSTED: D.C. Appeals Court Upholds the Constitutionality of Secret No-Fly List

https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/04/21/d-c-circuit-court-of-appeals-keeps-u-s-citizen-on-no-fly-list/

Republican Introduces Bill To Mandate Biometric Border Scanning (Facial/Iris Scans And Fingerprints)

The “Reform Immigration Through Biometrics Act” is the 23rd piece of legislation proposed by Congressman Donalds during the 119th Congress. This bill mandates that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report to Congress on the system’s implementation. This requirement aims to identify hurdles causing delays, close security gaps, track visa overstays more accurately, and ensure full border security.

https://donalds.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2620

CyberLink and Asteria Streamline Real-Time Facial Recognition Watchlists

“Powered by FaceMe’s AI, the solution delivers fast and reliable identification — even while individuals are in motion — balancing security, speed, and accuracy. Organizations can build no-code workflows that automatically translate facial recognition events into operational actions, such as triggering security alerts for watchlist individuals, notifying staff of VIP arrivals, logging access events, or feeding real-time insights into analytics dashboards — without human intervention.”

https://www.cyberlink.com/eng/press_room/view_5242.html

Wicket and Pacilion work together to put facial recognition in college sports stadiums

https://www.paciolan.com/post/wicket-partners-with-paciolan-to-accelerate-entry-into-college-sports-events

Revolution MD Receives Facial Recognition Inhaler Patent

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/revolution-md-secures-united-states-patent-for-ai-powered-controlled-substance-oversight-system-302745340.html

Facial recognition company Clarifai says it deleted OKCupid user photos, data after FTC scrutiny

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ai-company-deleted-okcupid-user-photos-data-after-ftc-scrutiny-2026-04-20/

Why using facial recognition to unlock your phone could be risking your data

https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/why-using-face-unlock-on-a-phone-could-be-risking-your-data-az8fe2G7uX8n

Knightscope and Carnegie Mellon University to create next-generation facial recognition/license plate reading robots

https://ir.knightscope.com/news-events/press-releases

US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/us-may-force-operating-systems-to-have-mandatory-age-verification-share-info-with-third-parties/

A New Age-Verification Bill Could Make You Show ID To Use a Computer or Smartphone

https://reason.com/2026/04/22/a-new-age-verification-bill-could-make-you-show-id-to-use-a-computer-or-smartphone/

IL Children’s Social Media Safety Act Would Force Operating Systems To Check Your Age

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/04/16/state-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-age-verification-on-all-online-devices-and-websites/

FBI Finally Admits It Investigated Cato Institute Since at Least 2019—Is It Still?

“In the more than five years since, the Bureau has fought disclosure of records on Cato at every opportunity—but thanks to some key court rulings made possible by great FOIA litigation work by Loevy and Loevy of Chicago, the Bureau has released nearly 1,000 pages of previously “nonexistent” records on the Cato Institute. “

https://www.cato.org/blog/fbi-finally-admits-they-investigated-cato-are-they-still

The FBI’s Investigation of a Reporter for ‘Stalking’ Breaks New Ground in Criminalizing Journalism

https://reason.com/2026/04/23/the-fbis-alleged-probe-of-a-reporter-for-stalking-breaks-new-ground-in-criminalizing-journalism/

FBI Director Kash Patel Files $250M Defamation Lawsuit Against The Atlantic

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/media/kash-patel-fbi-atlantic-lawsuit-sarah-fitzpatrick

AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you (Section 702)

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/rcna341499

House GOP Leaders Unveil New Section 702 Spy Powers Plan

https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/house-gop-leaders-unveil-new-spy-powers-plan-seek-party-unity

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/24/nx-s1-5797964/after-2-failed-votes-mike-johnson-unveils-new-plan-to-extend-key-u-s-spy-powers

The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess

However, the reforms are largely cosmetic, recreating oversight functions that the administration has already dismantled elsewhere and leaving the FBI’s core authority to search Americans’ communications without a warrant untouched. A senior Democratic aide familiar with the negotiations referred to the section as a “legislative scam,” telling WIRED: “There are many members who don’t quite understand the ins and outs of this law. Tossing the phrase ‘Fourth Amendment requirement’ into the bill is the speaker and the intelligence community working to dupe them into supporting a bill that has no meaningful constitutional safeguards.”

https://archive.ph/PeiQv

Republicans’ Fourth Amendment Section 702 double standard

“A lot of people are being hypocritical around here,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told HuffPost. Fitzpatrick is a moderate who opposes adding judicial warrant requirements to Section 702 and has pushed for bipartisan compromises in both debates. “When we know that Donald Trump is going to abuse any powers given to him, it is not going to age well for any Democrats to support giving Donald Trump powers with FISA without very strong legal protections,” Rep. Greg Casar, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus said.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-fisa-warrants-dhs-4th-amendment_n_69ebaf10e4b08330e41c2ec3

Trump administration sued violating FOIA by refusing to release documents about Palantir

https://americanoversight.org/palantir-data-collection-tools-foia/

Why Palantir’s ImmigrationOS Endangers Democracy and the Rule of Law

https://www.techpolicy.press/why-palantirs-immigrationos-endangers-democracy-and-the-rule-of-law/

30 Lawmakers Demand Answers on ICE Use of Palantir-Developed Technologies to Fuel Mass Surveillance

https://goldman.house.gov/media/press-releases/goldman-wyden-velazquez-demand-answers-ice-use-palantir-developed-technologies

Palantir Is Helping Trump’s IRS Conduct “Massive-Scale” Data Mining

https://archive.ph/RHF5m

Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/palantir-posts-mini-manifesto-denouncing-regressive-and-harmful-cultures/

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-posts-very-long-x-post-denouncing-vacant-and-hollow-pluralism-2000748318

‘One of The Scariest Things I Have Seen’: Alarms Sound Over ‘Technofascist’ Palantir Manifesto

https://www.commondreams.org/news/palantir-technofascist-manifesto-criticism

Palantir Has a Human Rights Policy. Its ICE Work Tells a Different Story

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/palantir-has-human-rights-policy-its-ice-work-tells-different-story

Palantir Debuts Chic Chore Coat So the World Knows You’re One of the Baddies

“We want millions of people wearing Palantir merch around the world.”

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-debuts-chic-chore-coat-so-the-world-knows-youre-one-of-the-baddies-2000750606

It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation (Webloc)

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-is-time-to-ban-the-sale-of-precise-geolocation

The Supreme Court will decide when police can use geolocation to track your phone without a warrant

https://archive.ph/DQiGt
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/26/g-s1-118359/supreme-court-geofencing-explainer-video

NH attorneys call Concord police department’s warrantless cellphone ping a ‘constitutional violation’

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/21/concord-police-clegg-arrest/

https://indepthnh.org/2026/04/21/state-tries-to-justify-illegal-searches-in-clegg-double-murder-case/

DHS, ICE and the CIA ramp up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices

https://theconversation.com/us-government-ramps-up-mass-surveillance-with-help-of-ai-tech-data-brokers-and-your-apps-and-devices-277440

BIG BROTHER WARNING: PA state police purchase NSA-funded portable radio tower by Motorola

This is NSA surveillance masquerading as benign law enforcement radio tower communications.

https://pennwatch.org/psp-utilizing-mobile-radio-tower-to-strengthen-communications-and-safety-during-2026-nfl-draft-in-pittsburgh/
What is Motorola Solutions LMR?

https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/solutions/what-is-lmr.html

https://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/docs/astro-25/project_25_and_interoperability_in_land_mobile_radio_white_paper_global_.pdf

Project 25 Interest Group and the NSA

https://www.project25.org/

https://www.project25.org/images/stories/ptig/P25_Benefits_Today_and_for_the_Future_2025_251009.pdf

Florida police used Flock cameras to track No-Kings protesters

“Dozens of police departments, sheriff’s offices and campus police have searched thousands of surveillance networks around the country using automated license plate reader cameras made by the private company Flock Safety. The cameras record everything from tag numbers to bumper stickers to car colors.”

https://archive.ph/yi0om

Activists swarm Flock HQ in Atlanta with massive “Flock Out” banner and signs

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-17-activists-swarm-flock-hq-in-atlanta-with-massive-flock-out-banner-and-signs/

Schmidt v. City of Norfolk Brief: Flock License Plate Readers Commit Fourth Amendment Searches

https://www.cato.org/blog/schmidt-v-city-norfolk-brief-automated-license-plate-readers-commit-fourth-amendment-searches

EPIC files amicus brief arguing city of Norfolk’s use of Flock ALPRs violated Fourth Amendment

https://epic.org/documents/schmidt-v-norfolk/

FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles

https://archive.ph/mbM7w

Spokane police to use 4 surveillance drones to spy on World Cup fans

“Councilwoman Sarah Dixit was the sole vote against, saying she was uncomfortable with drone use to surveil protests.”

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/apr/20/spokane-police-to-receive-barriers-and-ai-powered-/

Collier County Real-Time Centers uses surveillance drones as first responders

https://dronelife.com/2026/04/20/real-time-crime-center-drones-police-response/

New Haven’s Real-Time Crime Center uses Hundreds of CCTV and License Plate Readers to Spy on Residents

https://yaledailynews.com/articles/police-cameras-keep-eyes-on-new-haven-will-city-scrutinize-them-back

Fairfield police showcase Flock Safety surveillance drones

https://www.ktvu.com/news/fairfield-police-showcase-drone-program-ties-flock-safety

Future Of Police Surveillance: Ouachita Parish Real-Time Crime Center And Surveillance Drones

“It’s so different seeing everything from overhead,” Ouachita Parish Chief Deputy Larry Knight explained.

https://dronelife.com/2026/04/21/inside-a-real-time-crime-center-where-drones-shape-the-response/

https://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/images/customer-stories/customer-stories-documents/OuachitaParish_casestudy.pdf

Aurburn police purchase 4 surveillance drones as first responder

https://opelikaobserver.com/2026/04/21/auburn-council-approves-nearly-1-million-dronetechnology-contract/

Conroe police use Axon surveillance drones as first responder

https://archive.ph/J8hb9

Florence police purchase 3 surveillance drones as first responder

https://www.wrdw.com/2026/04/21/sc-police-department-implements-drone-first-responder-program/

Bettendorf police use 2 surveillance drones as first responder

https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/public-safety/bettendorf-police-drone-first-responders/526-fa360349-1f59-4d40-8723-252a3d98acd2

St. Charles County police want to use surveillance drones as first responder

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/st-charles-police-eye-drones-for-quicker-emergency-response/

Police Propaganda: Springs is getting safer — with police drones

https://gazette.com/2026/04/23/editorial-springs-is-getting-safer-with-an-assist-from-drones/

BRINC Unveils New Police Surveillance “Guardian” Drone

https://brincdrones.com/news/brinc-unveils-guardian-launching-the-next-era-of-drone-as-first-responder/

BRINC Announces New Seattle Factory and Launch of Next-Generation 911 Surveillance Drone

https://brincdrones.com/news/brinc-announces-new-seattle-factory-and-launch-of-next-generation-911-response-drone/

Brinc and AirData work together to expand surveillance drones as first responder

https://airdata.com/blog/2026/brinc-integration

Motorola Solutions (Drone Surveillance) Summit 2026

https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/blog/summit-2026-cybersecurity-sessions

Motorola Solutions wants surveillance drones in EVERY police car

https://dronelife.com/2026/04/21/drones-public-safety-ecosystem-motorola-summit-2026/

Inside Ukraine’s robot war revolution

“For the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms — ground systems and drones,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

https://www.politico.eu/article/inside-ukraine-robot-war-revolution/

Police Violence

California corrections officer charged with smuggling 20 kilos of cocaine

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-17/california-prison-guard-cocaine-smuggling-charges

Trump’s DOJ wants to shorten appeals process for people sentenced to death and add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-executions-electric-chair-firing-squads_n_69ebb001e4b08330e41c352f

DOJ announces it’s readopting the firing squad as a means of execution

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-readopting-firing-squad-execution

The Senate Is ‘Prepared’ To Confirm A Supreme Court Justice — And Ted Cruz Might Be The Pick
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/04/the-senate-is-prepared-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-justice-and-ted-cruz-might-be-the-pick/

Supreme Court Justices disagree of what constitutes ‘reasonable suspicion and violations of the Fourth Amendment

https://www.courthousenews.com/justices-back-dc-cop-in-reasonable-suspicion-rift/

Does A Shadow Docket Ruling Create “Clearly Established” Law For Purposes of Qualified Immunity
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/04/21/does-a-shadow-docket-ruling-create-clearly-established-law-for-purposes-of-qualified-immunity/

YAWN: Civil Rights Advocates Demand an End to Qualified Immunity in New York

https://naacpldf.org/press-release/civil-rights-advocates-demand-an-end-to-qualified-immunity-in-new-york/

The Secret Memos That Remade the Supreme Court (Shadow Dockets)

“Rulings with no explanation or reasoning, like the sparse paragraph from that February night, have become routine. The emergency docket is now a central legacy of the court led by Chief Justice Roberts. These days, justices who disagree with emergency orders often protest in vigorous written dissents. In 2016, the four liberal justices merely noted they had voted against the order. Although their private memos included extended arguments against the majority’s approach, they said nothing more in public.”

https://archive.ph/K9ogt

The Supreme Court’s ‘Shadow Docket’ Has Sprung a Leak

https://reason.com/2026/04/21/the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket-has-sprung-a-leak/

The U.S. Judicial Conference Withdraws Disastrous Donor Privacy Rule Change for Amicus Filers

https://www.ntu.org/foundation/detail/us-courts-withdraw-disastrous-donor-privacy-rule-change-for-amicus-filers

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/judicial-panel-trims-amicus-rule-change-after-privacy-worries

Trump’s DOJ has cut 4 thousand law-enforcement jobs while vowing to get tough on crime

https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-doj-has-cut-thousands-law-enforcement-jobs-while-vowing-get-tough-crime-2026-04-23/

Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts

https://avshah1.github.io/assets/pdf/papers/pro-se/Pro_Se_Automation.pdf

DISGUSTED: TX judge who handcuffed an attorney in court avoids charges by resigning

https://www.ksat.com/news/ksat-investigates/2026/04/20/judge-rosie-speedlin-gonzalez-resigns-in-deal-to-dismiss-criminal-charges/

DISGUSTED: TX judge who had mom arrested over child missing school is reprimanded

https://thehawkseyecn.net/news/the-lone-star-review-state/wilson-county-jp-reprimanded-after-truancy-case-ends-in-jail-time/

‘Innocent people will be convicted’: Alameda County public defenders plan protest over staffing shortfall
https://archive.ph/J9lzx

DA files motion to dismiss murder charges against man convicted in 1991 pipe bombings over junk science

In 2023, James Genrich successfully appealed part of the case, granting him a retrial, with a judge ruling that evidence presented in 1993 trial was “scientifically unreliable” and would not be admissible in a new trial, according to the motion to dismiss. In 1993, a toolmark expert had testified that marks on the bomb fragments matched Genrich’s tools “to the exclusion of any other tool.”

https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/mesa-county-da-files-motion-to-dismiss-murder-charges-against-man-convicted-in-1991-pipe-bombings

Appeals Court ruled cops can’t arrest people based on junk science (Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus)

https://www.tncourts.gov/sites/default/files/OpinionsPDFVersion/Majority%20Opinion%20-%20M2025-00357-CCA-R3-CD.pdf

CO judge vacates murder conviction for Innocet Black man imprisoned 27 years for 4-month-old’s death

https://www.courthousenews.com/denver-judge-vacates-murder-conviction-for-man-imprisoned-27-years-for-4-month-olds-death/

How North Carolina State Troopers Kept the Truth About Shooting an Unarmed Black Man Hidden

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/22/north-carolina-trooper-shooting

Prosecutors used rap lyrics to help send a Black man to death row in Texas. It’s not an uncommon tactic

https://apnews.com/article/rap-lyrics-trial-evidence-broadnax-ea77d963643b947902dd613b94ef003b

BIG BROTHER WARNING: Maryland Police to Force Speeders to Install Government Speed Limiters in Their Cars

The “Intelligent Speed Assistance System” device can be adjusted to allow you a couple miles per hour over the limit, similar to how police might give you a couple miles per hour grace on the roads. “For example, I was driving this car. I was driving it on a road, I think was the speed limit was 35 mph,” Allen said. “Even though I put the pedal all the way down to the floor, it would not go above 39 mph. It’s actually quite uncanny how good the technology works.”

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/maryland-lawmakers-pass-stop-super-speeders-bill-awaits-governor-wes-moore-signature-mva

https://wtop.com/maryland/2026/04/theyre-the-worst-drivers-in-md-but-new-tech-might-slow-them-down/

The “Intelligent Speed Assistance System Pilot Program” Was Meant To Limit NYC Government Vehicles From Going Over Speed Limits

https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcas/news/021-25/city-new-york-implement-largest-intelligent-speed-assistance-program-the-world

Mandatory driver impairment sensors clear a funding hurdle, but are they ready?

https://apnews.com/article/federal-law-impairment-detection-car-dui-062d40e885a0e32c6cad0ba70163aef8

Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-surveillance-tech-becomes-mandatory-161321992.html

NYPD cop racked up more than 500 speeding tickets since 2022
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/23/to-protect-and-swerve-nypd-cop-has-527-speeding-tickets-yet-remains-on-the-force

Homestead, FL cop caught racing sports car while in patrol car

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2026/04/24/homestead-police-investigate-video-of-officer-allegedly-racing-driver/

Police Stop Over 20 Million Motorists Every Year

https://www.aclu.org/documents/safe-roads-for-all

https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/

Why 20 Million Police Traffic Stops Are Dangerous and Ineffective

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/why-police-traffic-stops-are-dangerous-and-ineffective

SHAMELESS NYPD union accuses the Civilian Complaint Review Board of ‘stigmatizing’ cops accused of misconduct

https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/us-news/nyc-ccrb-pushing-out-stigmatizing-claims-against-nypd-cops-that-ruin-their-careers-even-if-unproven-lawsuit/

Madison police watchdog mishandled sensitive data of victims’ names, addresses and case details

https://archive.ph/AR7LW

Madison’s police oversight faces fresh pressure after AI racial discrimination slip

https://captimes.com/news/government/madison-s-police-oversight-faces-fresh-pressure-after-ai-slip/article_52a5162e-2ac2-4193-b6cc-147a6601453a.html

Vermont police stop Black and Latino drivers at twice the rate of white drivers

“The latest report, published this month by University of Vermont economist Stephanie Seguino and two co-authors, found that while Vermont officers are making fewer stops and conducting fewer searches than their 2017 peak, the race of the driver continues to shape who gets pulled over and whose vehicle gets searched.”

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/22/racial-disparities-in-vermont-traffic-stops-resurge-after-covid-era-dip-study-finds/

Schools are supposed to limit using restraint and seclusion to discipline kids but that’s not happening

https://theconversation.com/schools-are-supposed-to-limit-using-restraint-and-seclusion-to-discipline-kids-but-parents-i-spoke-with-say-the-practice-is-wildly-misused-279920

MO police chief who pleaded guilty to stealing $300K in public funds sentenced to 2 years in jail

https://fox2now.com/news/fox-files/former-police-chief-heads-to-prison-after-250k-scandal/

VT sheriff charged with nine sexual assault felonies spent tens of thousands on Amazon, food, hotels and flowers

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/23/bank-statements-detail-sheriffs-office-spending-under-palmer/

Appeals Court upholds $33M verdict against Oklahoma sheriff over death of pretrial detainee

“26-year-old Terral Ellis died from sepsis due to untreated pneumonia while in prison.”

https://www.courthousenews.com/10th-circuit-affirms-33-million-award-against-oklahoma-sheriff-over-death-of-pretrial-detainee/

Videos Reveal ‘Absolutely Egregious Care’ in 2025 Cuyahoga County Jail Death

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/14/cuyahoga-jail-death-wade-ohio

Sister of Jason Rothe files wrongful death lawsuit against NH correction officers

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/20/jason-rothe-estate-sues-state/

FL cop faces new charges of inappropriate conduct with 2nd student

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/04/23/former-sanford-officer-faces-new-charges-after-accusation-of-inappropriate-conduct-with-2nd-student/?

MA cop suspended for threatening his wife with his service gun

“According to the Millbury police report, Shrewsbury police officer Shawn Valliere, is accused of abusing alcohol, using cocaine, pointing a gun at his wife, and later putting a gun in his mouth and asking his wife to pull the trigger.”

https://www.wcvb.com/article/shrewsbury-police-officer-placed-on-leave-shawn-valliere/71111620

Former NC cop arrested over threat to kill Black people in New Orleans

https://6abc.com/post/former-chapel-hill-north-carolina-police-officer-christopher-gillum-accused-threatening-mass-shooting-new-orleans/18951739/

NC cop arrested for rape, kidnapping, and burglary

https://www.wral.com/news/local/benson-peter-alphonso-blake-arrest-april-2026/

NC cop suspended for 2 days for body slamming female student to the pavement

https://www.wbtv.com/2026/04/22/officer-suspended-2-days-after-video-shows-west-charlotte-student-body-slammed-amid-fight/

TX cop relieved of duty over viral racist social media rant

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/04/21/extremely-disturbed-houston-police-department-officer-relieved-of-duty-after-racist-rant-goes-viral-on-social-media/

NYPD cop convicted of perjury for lying about 2009 shooting

https://nypost.com/2026/04/24/us-news/ex-nypd-cop-convicted-of-perjury-for-lying-about-circumstances-of-2009-bronx-shooting/


Sentencing delayed for CA cops convicted of extorting marijuana from motorists

The two officers would drive far outside their jurisdiction in an unmarked vehicle, dressed in generic tactical gear without badges and pull over drivers they suspected of carrying large amounts of cannabis. They would then falsely claim to be agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and threaten arrest if drivers refused to hand over their marijuana.

https://courthousenews.com/sentencing-delayed-for-ex-cop-convicted-of-extorting-marijuana/

Off-duty DC police captain left weapon unattended when a 14-year-old girl pulled trigger thinking it was a prop

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/girl-police-officer-gun-tysons-corner/4095727

After Years of Waiting, Many Opioid Victims Will Be Shut Out of Purdue Settlement

As police departments make millions from opioid settlements.

https://www.propublica.org/article/purdue-settlement-leaves-opioid-victims-behind

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/after-waiting-years-justice-many-purdue-opioid-victims-are-defeated-by-paperwork-2026-04-24/

]]><![CDATA[U.S. Privacy And World Privacy News]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-008https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-008Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:01:20 GMTAre your encrypted messages ever truly private?

https://www.euractiv.com/news/explainer-are-your-secret-messages-ever-truly-private/

How You Phones Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/how-push-notifications-can-betray-your-privacy-and-what-do-about-it

Trump Threatens to Fire Powell if He Does Not Resign From Federal Reserve

https://archive.ph/C8K3A

Trump’s DOJ make surprise visit to Federal Reserve office

“Prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office made a surprise visit on Tuesday to the Federal Reserve’s headquarters renovation ​project, as the Trump administration continues its pressure campaign against the central ‌bank.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-prosecutors-make-surprise-visit-federal-reserve-office-2026-04-15/

Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram

https://archive.ph/dL4rs

Trump executive order would require banks to collect citizenship information

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5830266-trump-executive-order-banking-system-citizenship/

AI chatbots misdiagnose over 80% of early medical cases

https://archive.is/BmFHu

Ed Blum Is Trying to Keep Black Kids Out of School Again

https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/ed-blum-cbc-scholarship-lawsuit/

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has always been a cringefest. Trump just invited himself

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/white-house-correspondents-dinner-trump-criticism/

Hollywood stars sign open letter opposing Paramount-Warner Bros deal
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/hollywood-stars-sign-open-letter-opposing-paramount-warner-bros-deal-2026-04-13/

David Ellison to Host Private Dinner ‘Honoring’ Donald Trump as Paramount Awaits Closing of Warner Bros. Deal

https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/david-ellison-dinner-honoring-donald-trump-1236722579/

The Far-Right Center for American Rights supplied legal arguments, the FCC used against Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast networks

https://www.wired.com/story/the-fcc-has-a-fast-lane-for-complaints-about-trumps-media-critics/

MAGA’s FTC Has Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/oh-look-the-maga-ftc-built-the-censorship-industrial-complex-it-was-screaming-about/

Trump family’s crypto company accused of freezing out investors as value plummets

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-crypto-world-liberty-justin-sun-rcna331555

Trump family deal spree could open door for future presidents to profit from office
https://apnews.com/article/trump-organization-crypto-conflict-eric-deals-863d8850f536df291391e949ba1bc00e

Trump Plans Mar-a-Lago Feast for Crypto Grift’s Biggest Spenders

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-dishing-out-mar-a-lago-feast-to-crypto-grifts-biggest-spenders/

Trump’s DOJ to Settle Predatory Lending Case Without Compensating Victims

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-colony-ridge-texas-settlement-victims

BS WARNING: Trump weighs appointing Michael Murray to lead antitrust at DOJ

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-weighs-appointing-michael-murray-lead-antitrust-doj-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-04-16/

BS WARNING: US will punish fraud, insider trading, derivatives regulator tells Congress

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-will-punish-fraud-insider-trading-derivatives-regulator-tells-congress-2026-04-16/

Congresswoman Introduces Congressional Stock Trading Ban, Additional Measures to Restore Public Trust as Part of ‘No Getting Rich in Congress Act’

https://stevens.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stevens-introduces-congressional-stock-trading-ban-additional-measures

How the Stop Insider Trading Act Fails to Solve the Congressional Stock Trading Problem

https://campaignlegal.org/document/how-stop-insider-trading-act-fails-solve-congressional-stock-trading-problem

At Least 88 Big Corporations Paid $0 in Federal Income Tax Last Year

https://itep.org/88-profitable-corporations-paid-zero-income-tax-in-2025/

Judge faults Trump for ‘brazen’ bid to continue White House ballroom construction

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-faults-trump-brazen-bid-continue-ballroom-construction-2026-04-16/

Trump’s Arts Chief says D.C. needs three arches, not one

https://archive.ph/PdJYk

Trump’s arch gets overwhelmingly negative public feedback but appears poised to move forward

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/politics/trump-arch-feedback-commission

White House press secretary Leavitt says Interior will submit plans to begin construction of 250ft Trump arch

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5832850-white-house-trump-triumphal-arch-leavitt-plans/

Trump wants a “National Garden of American Heroes” for America’s 250th birthday. Sources say it’s unlikely even one statue will be ready

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/politics/trump-national-garden-of-american-heroes-west-potomac-park

Is Trump Investigating the NFL Because He Failed To Buy a Team So Many Times?

https://reason.com/2026/04/14/is-trump-investigating-the-nfl-because-he-failed-to-buy-a-team-so-many-times/

FBI under Trump ramps up probe of ex-CIA chief Brennan over Russian interference in 2017 election report

https://www.reuters.com/world/fbi-under-trump-ramps-up-probe-ex-cia-chief-brennan-over-russia-report-sources-2026-04-16/

Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover

Trump’s voting restrictions bill may fail, but parts live on in 23 states

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trumps-voting-restrictions-bill-may-fail-parts-live-23-states-2026-04-14/

Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated Black man

“The state Legislature is largely Republican and white, and the deeply red state has been leading efforts to gut the Voting Rights Act. “

https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/louisiana-gop-races-eliminate-elected-office-won-exonerated-131893449

Seeking proof of citizenship for voter registration, Louisiana sues federal election agency

https://www.courthousenews.com/seeking-proof-of-citizenship-for-voter-registration-louisiana-sues-federal-election-agency/

Kansas lawmakers overturn governor’s veto, criminalize protests and attack voting rights

“Kansas state lawmakers overrode gubernatorial vetoes last week in a broad attack on Kansans’ ability to vote, to be free from unconstitutional detention, and to protest.”

https://www.aclukansas.org/press-releases/kansas-lawmakers-end-legislative-session-with-attack-on-voters-immigrants-and-due-process-for-all/

Swing state officials accused of secretly meeting to help Trump seize election files

https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-demands-georgia-election-board-members-address-court-filing-made-without-public-process/

Judge rejects Trump’s Justice Department effort to obtain Rhode Island’s voter data

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-rejects-us-justice-department-effort-obtain-rhode-islands-voter-data-2026-04-17/

Indiana ban on student IDs for voting blocked by judge

https://www.courthousenews.com/indiana-ban-on-student-ids-for-voting-blocked-by-federal-judge/

Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5742595/virginia-popular-vote-compact

The FTC’s Probe of Media Matters for America Is a Blatant Assault on Freedom of Speech

https://reason.com/2026/04/15/the-ftcs-probe-of-media-matters-for-america-is-a-blatant-assault-on-freedom-of-speech/

AI toys are telling kids how to find knives, and senators are mad

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/846573/ai-toys-built-on-openais-chatgpt-inappropriate-content-senators-letter

Google In Talks With Department Of War To Deploy Gemini AI

https://www.newsweek.com/pentagon-weighs-googles-gemini-ai-for-military-use-anthropic-fallout-11839175

Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Christianity

On February 7, 2025, Trump signed an executive order establishing the official White House Faith Office as well as faith offices across government agencies. The White House Faith Office is led by Paula White-Cain, a pastor and televangelist known for her controversial invocations throughout Trump’s various presidential campaigns. Since then, faith offices have sprung up across agencies, and Christianity has started appearing in office life. A July 2025 memo from the Office of Personnel Management titled “Protecting Religious Expression in the Federal Workplace” permits federal employees to essentially proselytize to their colleagues, so long as trying to “persuade others of the correctness of their own religious views” doesn’t cross the line into harassment.

https://archive.ph/gKRwm

Anthropic Consults Christian Leaders to Help Its “Moral and Spiritual Development”
https://archive.ph/uUV93

Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the Trump administration on Mythos

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/anthropic-co-founder-confirms-the-company-briefed-the-trump-administration-on-mythos/

Federal agencies skirt Trump’s Anthropic ban to test its advanced AI model

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/14/anthropic-mythos-federal-agency-testing-00872439

Federal agencies report over 3,000 AI use cases in 2025

https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/agencies-report-over-3000-ai-use-cases-2025/412898

White House to give US agencies Anthropic Mythos access
https://www.reuters.com/technology/white-house-give-us-agencies-anthropic-mythos-access-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-04-16/

Anthropic Raises Price for Power Users

https://gizmodo.com/anthropic-is-jacking-up-the-price-for-power-users-amid-complaints-its-model-is-getting-worse-2000746923

OpenAI expands Trusted Access for Cyber program with new GPT 5.4 Cyber model

https://cyberscoop.com/openai-expands-trusted-access-for-cyber-to-thousands-for-cybersecurity/

Agents hacked into GitHub can steal credentials – but Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft haven’t warned users

https://oddguan.com/blog/comment-and-control-prompt-injection-credential-theft-claude-code-gemini-cli-github-copilot/

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US DOGE Service is alive and growing, organization official says

https://fedscoop.com/us-doge-service-alive-growing-organization-official-says/

Where the DOGE Operatives Are Now

https://archive.ph/XduSR

Owners of New Tesla Signature Edition Cars Will Be Fined $50K For Re-selling Vehicle

https://electrek.co/2026/04/16/tesla-signature-edition-no-resale-agreement-50000-penalty/

Tesla adds ‘streaks,’ other stats to track how often drivers use Full Self-Driving software

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/tesla-adds-streaks-and-other-stats-to-track-how-often-drivers-use-full-self-driving-software/

Tesla launches voice-activated spying Grok update

https://electrek.co/2026/04/13/tesla-spring-update-2026-hey-grok-self-driving-app-pet-mode/

Grok AI is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/rcna265855

Grok’s sexual deepfakes almost got it banned from Apple’s App Store

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/912297/apple-app-store-ban-grok-x-deepfakes

Musk’s xAI sues over Colorado’s AI antidiscrimination law, claiming it’s a threat to Grok’s free speech

https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/10/elon-musk-colorado-ai-law-federal-court-lawsuit/

NAACP lawsuit accuses Musk’s xAI of polluting Black neighborhoods near Memphis

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/naacp-lawsuit-elon-musk-xai-memphis

What Are the Politics of a Platform? The Case of X (Part 1)

https://www.techpolicy.press/what-are-the-politics-of-a-platform-the-case-of-x/

What Are the Politics of a Platform? What the Data Says About Content Moderation on X (Part 2)

https://www.techpolicy.press/what-are-the-politics-of-a-platform-what-the-data-says-about-content-moderation-on-x/

AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ai-ruling-prompts-warnings-us-lawyers-your-chats-could-be-used-against-you-2026-04-15/

Meta tries to defeat AGs’ claims ahead of children’s addiction trial

https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-tries-to-defeat-ags-claims-ahead-of-childrens-addiction-trial/

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

https://archive.ph/Tl5vn

https://globalprivacyaudit.org/2026/california

Microsoft faces fresh Windows Recall security concerns

https://www.theverge.com/report/912101/microsoft-windows-recall-new-security-concerns-response

108 Chrome extensions caught stealing user data and hijacking sessions

https://socket.dev/blog/108-chrome-ext-linked-to-data-exfil-session-theft-shared-c2

WebinarTV Secretly Scraped Zoom Meetings of Anonymous Recovery Programs

https://archive.ph/H882V

100+ Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-13-100-journalists-applaud-the-internet-archives-role-in-preserving-the-public-record/

Advertising Agencies Settle Media Censorship Lawsuit With FTC

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/big-ad-agencies-settle-us-ftc-probe-into-alleged-boycott-over-political-content-2026-04-15/

Booking.com data breach

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/13/booking-com-confirms-hackers-accessed-customers-data/

Data is driving the militarization of tech

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5756/challenging-militarisation-tech-visual-explainer

Missouri Town Council Approves Data Center. A Week Later, Voters Fire Half of Council

https://gizmodo.com/missouri-town-council-approves-data-center-a-week-later-voters-fire-half-of-council-2000746005

Can you get a straight answer about add-on charges for doctor visits?

“Patients are often shocked to see an unexpected “facility fee” charge after a medical appointment – PIRG has talked with dozens who have been charged one. Facility fees are intended to cover hospital costs, but are often applied to outpatient appointments that don’t even use hospital specific resources. Insurance often won’t cover them, and patients are stuck paying more without any improvement in the quality of care they receive.”

https://pirg.org/articles/can-you-get-a-straight-answer-about-add-on-charges-for-doctor-visits/

Medicare Can Guarantee Coverage, But Not Care

“Studies have found that states with more generous Medicaid payments have higher physician participation rates, and many doctors report that low reimbursement leads them to limit or avoid treating Medicaid patients altogether.”

https://www.cato.org/blog/you-can-guarantee-coverage-not-care

Judge gives tentative OK to $56M Flo Health privacy settlement

https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-gives-tentative-ok-to-56-million-menstrual-app-privacy-settlement/

Two privacy lawsuits allege patient data shared with third parties

https://www.legalnewsline.com/florida-record/two-cases-allege-patient-data-shared-with-third-parties/article_383392a0-95ff-4fc2-be32-c09d40f8048b.html

State & Local Privacy News

Public Citizen Unveils New Tracker for State Legislation Regulating Chatbots
“Today, Public Citizen launched a new, interactive tracker monitoring state-level efforts to regulate generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and companion products.”

https://www.citizen.org/news/public-citizen-unveils-new-tracker-for-state-legislation-regulating-chatbots/

VT- Violent crime drop is much lower than the FBI’s figures

“All the data sources show a decline from 2024 levels, but the degree of the decline and the longer-term trend are less apparent. The FBI and the city data portal, for example, suggest violent crime looked more like 2023-2024. And the annual police report shows a higher 13% drop from 2024 to 2025 while the FBI shows only a 1% difference.”

https://archive.ph/Kkzet

ME- State Legislature Fails to Enact Online Data Privacy Act

https://epic.org/maine-legislature-fails-to-enact-maine-online-data-privacy-act/

ME- Lawmakers approve first-in-nation temporary ban on data centers

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/14/maine-lawmakers-approve-first-in-nation-ban-on-data-centers-2/

ME- Police fine driver of mobile billboard targeting Janet Mills on data centers

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/16/police-pull-the-plug-on-mobile-billboard-targeting-janet-mills-on-data-centers/

NH- Big Week for 20K Crime Victims Waiting for Payments from Perpetrators

https://indepthnh.org/2026/04/16/big-week-in-nh-for-victims-waiting-for-payments-from-perpetrators/

MA- Gov. Healey hides behind public records law exemption, withholds majority of ICE portal entries

“Gov. Maura Healey is hiding behind her exemption to the public records law to withhold hundreds of entries sent to the ICE Misconduct Portal she created last month with Attorney General Andrea Campbell, a move in line with the Bay State’s reputation as the least transparent state in the country.”

https://archive.ph/4zAmq

MA- MBTA invokes admiralty law in bid to limit its liability after deckhand loses part of leg while docking at the Aquarium

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/mbta-invokes-admiralty-law-bid-limit-its-liability-ferry-accident-saw

NH- Police departments have made 51 immigration arrests in the past year

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-04-13/ice-arrests-local-police-new-hampshire-287g-immigration

NH- AG investigating new abuse concerns at the John Sununu Youth Services Center

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/15/new-hampshire-youth-center-abuse/

MA- Howie Carr: Abolish the State Police, Today

https://archive.ph/hL2sb

NY- NYC urges appeals court to revive controversial diner data sharing law

https://www.courthousenews.com/nyc-urges-second-circuit-to-revive-controversial-diner-data-sharing-law/

VA- Governor Signs Bill Banning Sale of Precise Location Data

https://epic.org/virginia-governor-signs-bill-banning-sale-of-precise-location-data/

NC- UNC Chapel Hill investigating students over satire

https://www.fire.org/news/unc-chapel-hills-students-dabbled-satire-now-university-investigating

OH- Going braless could land women in jail under anti-drag bill

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2026/04/14/house-bill-249-drag-queens-t-shirts-bikinis-indecent-exposure-modernization-act/89597407007/

MN- City of Bloomington cancels Flock Safety camera contract, wants to use other companies

The City said it will look at other technologies and providers that “better balance public safety needs with privacy protections, transparency, accountability and public trust.”

https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/city-of-bloomington-moving-away-from-flock-following-months-of-evaluation

KS- State Legislature overrides governor’s veto of campus free speech bill honoring Charlie Kirk

https://kansasreflector.com/2026/04/09/kansas-legislature-overturns-veto-to-pass-free-speech-bill-honoring-charlie-kirk/

MO- Families scorn sex offender registry as ‘badge of stigma’ at Eighth Circuit

Attorney Guy Hamilton-Smith argued before the panel of judges the sex offender registry creates “a permanent, inescapable badge of stigma” while attempting to revive his clients’ claims after they were dismissed by a federal judge. The nine plaintiffs have homes listed on the registry due to a past conviction or that of a spouse or parent.

https://www.courthousenews.com/families-scorn-missouri-sex-offender-registry-as-badge-of-stigma-at-eighth-circuit/

CA- Elk Grove city council approves 87 Flock Safety camera contrct

https://www.egcitizen.com/2026/04/14/569534/council-approves-automatic-license-plate-reader-contract-amendment

CA- BS WARNING: Pasadena Police Chief to Update Public Safety Committee on Flock Safety Cameras

https://pasadenanow.com/main/police-chief-to-update-public-safety-committee-on-flock-safety-automated-license-plate-reader-program

CA- Three San Jose Residents File Class Action Over City’s Flock Safety Surveillance of Drivers

“As an engineer specializing in privacy, I know how important it is to protect people’s data and how even just a few points of location history can reveal profound and sensitive insights about a person’s life,” said Tony Tan. “Having spent time in China, I know what an authoritarian surveillance state looks like, and I worry about the proliferation of similar mass surveillance technologies across the United States. I want to ensure that police state tactics do not become commonplace here.”

https://ij.org/press-release/three-san-jose-residents-file-federal-class-action-lawsuit-over-citys-mass-surveillance-of-drivers/

CA- The “Stop Nick Shirley Act” Would Penalize Journalism

https://reclaimthenet.org/california-ab-2624-stop-nick-shirley-act

World Privacy News

After Viktor Orbán loss, Europe’s far right reassesses MAGA endorsement

https://www.euronews.com/2026/04/14/after-orban-loss-europes-far-right-reassesses-maga-endorsement

Don’t read too much into Viktor Orbán’s defeat (Trump before Trump)

For MAGA, Peter Magyar’s win was still a shock to the system, of course. By the time German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made his address on Monday, there was still an eerie hush in Washington over the downfall of the movement’s strongest ideological European ally — affectionately called the “Trump before Trump.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-election-analysis-viktor-orban-defeat-far-right/

Viktor Orbán’s defeat is also a blow to his ally Netanyahu

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/europe/orbans-defeat-netanyahu-ally-intl

Changing of the guard in Budapest is anything but a swing to the left

https://www.euractiv.com/news/no-greens-no-liberals-no-reds-changing-of-the-guard-in-budapest-is-anything-but-a-swing-to-the-left/

EU court condemns France’s police profiling practices

https://edri.org/our-work/the-court-of-justice-of-the-european-union-condemns-frances-police-profiling-practices/

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it took them 2 minutes to break it

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/

Maritime Passport previews ‘Gold Standard’ Digital ID

https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/maritime-passport-previews-gold-standard-digital-identity-solution-for-seafarers-at-imo-fal-50/

EU Says EUDI Wallet Is Voluntary; Germany’s SPD Plan Says Otherwise

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-says-eudi-wallet-is-voluntary-germanys-spd-plan-says-otherwise

EU age verification app ready as Europe moves to curb children’s social media access

https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-age-verification-app-ready-europe-moves-curb-childrens-social-media-access-2026-04-15/

European Commission Announces Age Verification App, but Privacy and Security Concerns Remain

https://cdt.org/press/european-commission-announces-age-verification-app-but-privacy-security-and-free-expression-concerns-remain/

How can the EU protect children online while dismantling the very rules designed to keep them safe?

https://edri.org/our-work/how-can-the-eu-protect-children-online-while-dismantling-the-very-rules-designed-to-keep-them-safe/

Germany’s digital minister wants a European Palantir

https://www.politico.eu/article/german-minister-backs-push-to-build-a-european-palantir/

France- UN warns government’s antisemitism bill threatens free speech

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/04/france-draft-antisemitism-law-could-seriously-undermine-free-expression-and

France- Government’s new antisemitism bill would criminalize ‘from the river to the sea’

https://www.fire.org/news/blogs/free-speech-dispatch/french-bill-would-criminalize-river-sea

Italy- Government FINALLY suspends defense cooperation agreement with Israel

https://www.euractiv.com/news/italy-suspends-defence-cooperation-agreement-with-israel/

UK- Israeli organization Shivat Zion helps citizens move to West Bank

https://www.declassifieduk.org/exposed-israeli-operation-to-help-brits-move-to-west-bank/

UK- Met police arrested 523 people for supporting Palestine Action

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp38z9lylddo

UK- Trump threatens to shred trade deal over PM Starmer’s Iran war opposition

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-keir-starmer-threatens-unpick-trade-deal-iran-war-opposition/

UK- PM Starmer Resists Pressure To Resign As Epstein-Linked Ambassador Scandal Deepens

https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/starmer-faces-calls-to-resign-as-uk-government-22210516.php

UK- MP’s pass law restricting repeat protests

https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/politics/mps-vote-crime-policing-bill-b2957746.html

https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/mps-vote-for-more-repression-with-ban-on-repeated-protests/

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Those Who Seek to Scale Back Jury Trials Profoundly Misunderstand Their Authority Over the Constitutional Order
The Labour-led British government is currently attempting to hollow out an ancient pillar of English constitutionalism, trial by jury. Under their planned reforms, trial by jury would survive in England and Wales for certain types of crimes, but its use would be significantly curtailed. For example, according to a government…
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UK- Football, Facial Recognition and the Expansion of Police Surveillance

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5759/moving-goalposts-football-facial-recognition-and-expansion-surveillance

UK- Government Pledges £82M for Biometric Justice ID System (Fingerprint/Facial Recognition)

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/digital-overhaul-of-prison-system-to-drive-down-release-errors

UK- Government needs digital sovereignty strategy to address threats from reliance on Big Tech

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-uk-needs-digital-sovereignty-strategy-to-address-threats-from-reliance-on-big-tech/

Philippines- Government to use facial/Iris scanners to ID healthcare members

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2202080/philhealth-launches-online-records-check-for-members

Philippines- 67M people have signed up for the government’s national digital ID program

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/2211995/psa-12m-national-id-cards-up-for-delivery-in-2026

Vietnam- Da Nang International Airport to use facial recognition to ID passengers

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/travel/one-of-southeast-asia-s-best-airports-launches-biometric-priority-lane-for-passengers-5061623.html

Vietnam- Government to use facial recognition to ID citizens who purchase new phones

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/biometric-verification-required-for-mobile-device-changes-from-april-15-post340765.vnp

Taiwan- Taipei Songshan Airport to use facial recognition to ID passengers

https://focustaiwan.tw/sci-tech/202604140016

India- The Supreme Court to Examine Iris/Facial Recognition for Voter Verification

https://www.outlookindia.com/national/supreme-court-to-examine-biometric-facial-recognition-for-voter-verification

Kazakhstan- Sentencing of 19 activists over peaceful Xinjiang protest a travesty of justice

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/04/kazakhstan-sentencing-of-19-activists-over-peaceful-xinjiang-protest-a-travesty-of-justice/

Kazakhstan- Government’s National Bank to store citizen’s palm prints for at least 5 years

https://el.kz/en/palm-prints-of-kazakhstan-citizens-to-be-stored-in-the-database-for-at-least-five-years_400046138/

Jordan- Government makes digital ID mandatory for access to public services

https://www.jordannews.jo/Section-109/News/Civil-Status-Amendment-Approved-Mandatory-Use-of-Digital-Identity-for-Public-and-Private-Sectors-50517

NZ- Air NZ plans to expand digital ID trials to Australia flights

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/travel-news/air-nz-plans-to-expand-digital-id-trials-to-australia-flights-after-successful-hong-kong-pilot/Z5C5ISSFGRFZ5D6DAWCPLXTQ3M/

Canada- Librarians Raise ‘Serious Privacy Concerns’ Over Age Verification Bill

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/serious-privacy-concerns-library-leaders-raise-alarm-over-proposed-govt-restrictions

Canada- Edmonton cops to wear facial recognition body cams

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-police-emails-documents-provide-new-information-on-canada-first-ai-facial-recognition-bodycam-pilot-9.7157991

Canada- Facephi Opens Office in British Columbia

https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/04/13/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/facephi-strengthens-its-international-expansion-with-the-opening-of-a-subsidiary-in-canada/2318820

St. Kitts and Nevis orders all holders of citizenship must enroll in the government’s National Biometric Enrollment and Passport Modernization Program (facial recognition, Iris scan and fingerprints)

https://ciu.gov.kn/st-kitts-and-nevis-launches-national-biometric-enrolment-and-passport-modernisation-programme/

]]><![CDATA[U.S. News/Police Violence]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-661https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-661Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:01:38 GMTTrump Says Image Of Him As Jesus Is Actually ‘Me As A Doctor’

Christ embracing Trump against the backdrop of an American flag

“I was never a very religious man.. But doesn’t it seem, with all these satanic, demonic, child sacrificing monsters being exposed… that God might be playing his Trump card!”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jesus-2676722086/

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116408742801619405

Hegseth compares ‘Trump-hating’ reporters to enemies of Jesus

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/hegseth-invokes-bible-compare-reporters-enemies-jesus-2026-04-16/

Trump yanks millions from Catholic Charities amid Pope feud

https://archive.ph/K8p4F

Trump Claims Iran could Nuke The Vatican

https://www.news10.com/hill-politics/trump-says-he-wont-meet-pope-leo-says-he-can-disagree-with-pontiff/

Staunch Trump Supporters Are Asking If He’s the Antichrist

https://archive.ph/DtrnW

Trump says he doesn’t owe Pope Leo an apology after attacking him for comments on Iran

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-says-he-doesnt-owe-pope-leo-an-apology-after-attacking-him-for-comments-on-iran

Trump Brags He’s a Global Savior

Trump wants to give himself the medal of honor because he flew to Iraq

“I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. So brave I wanted to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor,” Trump said, adding that he asked his “people” if he was allowed to do so. “Someday I’m gonna try. I’m gonna test the law.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-wants-medal-of-honor_n_69e5bbd8e4b0b6f552bab9fe

House Dem Asks General For Assurances If Trump Deploys Troops To Polling Places

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/house-dem-asks-general-assurances-191617759.html

MAGA turns on Tucker Carlson: Ted Cruz calls him a “deranged, leftist psycho”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5833050-ted-cruz-tucker-carlson-iran-war-clash/

Trump Still Pretending The Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists Are People Who Don’t Like Fascism

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/17/trump-still-pretending-the-most-dangerous-domestic-terrorists-are-people-who-dont-like-fascism/

IRONY: Trump Administration to ban European politicians from World Cup over ‘antisemitism’

“We are holding countries accountable for ministers who are saying things, and they are not being allowed into the country,” said Yehuda Kaploun, an ultra-orthodox rabbi appointed by Donald Trump as a special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism. He was addressing a conference in Brussels on Wednesday.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/us-to-ban-european-politicians-from-world-cup-over-antisemitism/

Pentagon ramps up planning of possible military ops in Cuba

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/04/15/pentagon-ramps-up-secret-cuba-planning-trump/89623722007/

Hegseth ask Ford and GM to make weapons for the first time since WWII

https://www.newsweek.com/ford-gm-could-be-about-to-make-weapons-for-the-first-time-since-ww2-11836674

Defense giant Anduril is quietly building autonomous warships on Seattle’s historic ship canal

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/defense-giant-anduril-is-quietly-building-autonomous-warships-on-seattles-historic-ship-canal/

A private equity billionaire mounts his biggest takeover yet: The Pentagon

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/a-private-equity-billionaire-mounts-his-biggest-takeover-yet-the-pentagon/ar-AA20ZAq3

Trump Wants to Rename the Strait of Hormuz the Trump Strait

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/27/trump-strait-of-hormuz-iran-war.html

Netanyahu Boasts: Trump Admin Briefs Me Every Day On Iran

https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-trump-administration-daily-briefings-sparks-backlash-iran-war-11821658

WHO confirms over 20 strikes on Iranian health facilities since March 1st

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-confirms-over-20-strikes-on-iranian-health-facilities-as-global-alarm-grows/ar-AA206eiW

The Iranian Red Crescent claims the U.S. and Israel have bombed 307 medical facilities

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/3/more-than-20-attacks-on-iranian-healthcare-facilities-since-march-1-who

Iran slams YouTube ban on pro-Iranian group’s Lego-style AI videos

“In a land that proudly hosts Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, and The Walt Disney Company, an independent animated YouTube channel – which had organically grown by depicting U.S. aggression & warmongering, and garnered millions of viewers – was abruptly shut down!! Why?!” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei posted on X on Monday. Baghaei said: “Simply to suppress the truth about their ‘illegal war’ on Iran and shield the American administration’s false narrative from any competing voice.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/14/iran-slams-youtube-ban-on-pro-iranian-groups-lego-style-ai-videos

Content warfare, AI slop and 80s French hits: Is Iran out-trolling Donald Trump?

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/04/15/content-warfare-ai-slop-and-80s-french-hits-is-iran-out-trolling-donald-trump

Chinese firm claims it tracked US stealth bomber jets over Iran

https://archive.ph/E1Vgb

Republican Senator Goes After Somali Americans In Rant: ‘You Should Be Out Of Here’

https://www.aol.com/articles/gop-senator-goes-somali-americans-003915717.html

Trump’s war with Iran could cost the American taxpayer $1 trillion

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/iran-war-cost-us-taxpayer-trillion-harvard.html

Trump administration murders 5 people in boat strikes in the Pacific ocean

https://www.wunc.org/2026-04-13/strikes-on-alleged-drug-boats-kill-5-in-eastern-pacific-u-s-military-says

State Department Tells Human Rights Watchdog to Ignore Trump’s Extrajudicial Killings

https://archive.ph/FSyQ4

Trump Jr.-linked cage-fighters make pitch to train US military

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/trump-jr-linked-cage-fighters-make-pitch-to-train-us-military/ar-AA20Rhlq

Pentagon Pete’s bid to purge women from military suffers setback

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pete-hegseths-bid-to-purge-women-from-military-suffers-setback/

Justice Jackson says US Supreme Court’s use of emergency docket is ‘corrosive’

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/justice-jackson-says-us-supreme-courts-use-emergency-docket-is-corrosive-2026-04-15/

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at Minnesota motorists

https://www.startribune.com/ice-agent-charged-with-two-felonies-for-pointing-his-gun-at-motorists-during-operation-metro-surge/601727970

Only 2% of Immigrants Arrested by Trump’s Memphis Crime Task Force Arrests Were for Violent Crimes

https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-immigration-arrests-crime-data

Legal Aid, NYCLU, Make the Road NY, and Covington & Burlington sue DHS for Unlawful Stops, Warrantless Immigration Arrests
https://www.nyclu.org/press-release/legal-aid-nyclu-make-the-road-ny-and-covington-burling-llp-file-class-action-lawsuit-against-dhs-for-unlawful-stops-warrantless-immigration-arrests-and-racial-profiling-of-new-yorkers

Judge rules Trump’s DOJ violated First Amendment by asking Google and Apple to block ICE sighting apps

https://www.theverge.com/policy/914619/trump-administration-violated-first-amendment-ice-tracking

ICE Smashed A Disabled Woman’s Car Windows on the Way to the Doctor And Beat Her. Now She’s Fighting Back

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/ice-aliyah-rahman-tort-ntca-dhs/

A Protester Threw a Snowball. Federal Agents Responded With Tear Gas and Pepper Balls

https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-trump-immigration-ice-cbp-excessive-force

MN journalist filmed an ICE protest at a church. Then federal agents showed up at her door

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/minnesota-journalist-charged-ice-protest

Journalist pleads not guilty to felony charges stemming from church protest

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/17/journalist-georgia-fort-pleads-not-guilty-to-felony-charges-stemming-from-church-protest/

As Mass Arrests at Anti-ICE Protests Piled Up, Prosecutions Crumbled

https://www.propublica.org/article/caught-in-crackdown-ice-cbp-doj-trump-arrests-convictions

Woman falsely arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No-Kings rally prevails in court

Outside the courtroom, Mary Kay Smith was dressed up in an eggplant costume waving a “NO KINGS - NO DICK-TATORS” sign. Fairhope, Alabama prosecutor Marcus McDowell said it wasn’t a free speech case but argued “no one has a Constitutional right to dress up as an erect penis and stand on the side of the road.” McDowell said Fairhope police officer Andrew Babb attempted to de-escalate, but Renea Gamble’s non-compliance led to the charges. He called Gamble’s husband as a witness to testify that he had withdrawn bail money before they attended the protest, as if she knew she was going to break the law in advance. “I always make sure we got bail money on us,” Larry Fletcher responded, to laughter from the gallery. “I have bail money on me now. Whenever there are this many cops around I have bail money on me.” There were no fewer than 16 uniformed police officers standing around the perimeter of the courtroom.

https://www.courthousenews.com/penis-costume-protester-prevails-in-court/

Cops Are Charging Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests With ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/15/acab-cops-are-bringing-delinquency-of-a-minor-charges-against-adults-who-assist-students-during-anti-ice-protests/

Trump fires more immigration judges, including two who blocked deporting pro-Palestinian students

“With these most recent terminations, 113 immigration judges ​have now been fired since January of last year without due process, cause or ​explanation,” the union said, calling the firings “wrong and unjust.” It was very rare ⁠for immigration judges to be fired before Trump returned to the White House, the National Association of Immigration Judges said.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-fires-more-immigration-judges-including-two-who-blocked-deporting-pro-2026-04-13/

Senate Democrats warn of ‘serious consequences’ from decision upholding DOJ firings

“This decision not only undermines the impartiality of our immigration courts, but also opens the door for the Trump administration to strip longstanding protections for employees across the federal workforce,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Tuesday. “The integrity of our merit-based federal civil service hangs in the balance.”

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/04/senate-democrats-warn-of-serious-consequences-from-decision-upholding-doj-firings/

Justice Department removes lead prosecutor from probe of Trump critic John Brennan

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/17/politics/prosecutor-running-john-brennan-investigation-removed

The Trump Admin’s Lawyers Keep Giving The Same Troubling Answer in Court

“The Justice Department has changed dramatically in Trump’s second term, and former prosecutors say it could take generations to undo the damage.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-trump-admins-lawyers-keep-giving-the-same-troubling-answer-in-court_n_69e147f3e4b0b6f552b84c8a

Trump Has Plans To Replace 2 Or 3 Supreme Court Justices

President Donald Trump said he is “prepared” to appoint up to three Supreme Court justices if vacancies arise, signaling he is ready to further reshape the high court as speculation swirls around a potential retirement from Justice Samuel Alito.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-reveals-he-has-multi-pick-scotus-plan-ready-retirement-speculation-heats-up

The exit of thousands of DOJ lawyers weakens future prosecutions

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/19/doj-exodus-lawyers-trump/89401004007/

Hegseth Wants the D.C. Appeals Court To Let Him Punish a Senator for Criticizing Him

https://reason.com/2026/04/17/pete-hegseth-wants-the-d-c-circuit-to-let-him-punish-a-senator-for-criticizing-him/

Acting AG Todd Blanche Says Americans “Should Be Happy” With Trump’s Weaponization of DOJ

https://truthout.org/articles/todd-blanche-says-americans-should-be-happy-with-trumps-weaponization-of-doj/

Republican Gov. Abbott threatens $200M in funding from major Texas cities over ICE policies

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/16/texas-greg-abbott-ice-houston-dallas-austin-ice-immigration/

All But 3 Of The 4,499 Refugees Admitted To The US Under Trump Are White South African

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/all-but-3-of-the-4499-refugees-admitted-to-the-us-under-trump-are-white-south-africans/

Human rights groups raise alarm over fate of Salvadorans deported from U.S.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/17/nx-s1-5721174/rights-groups-raise-alarm-over-fate-of-salvadorans-deported-from-us-trump

Nevada Court Latest To Say Mandatory Detention Of Migrants Is Illegal

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/13/nevada-court-latest-to-say-mandatory-detention-of-migrants-is-illegal/

ICE has opened 152 new mega-detention facilities in 39 states, as ICE arrests reach record highs

https://www.vera.org/news/ten-things-veras-ice-detention-trends-dashboard-reveals-about-ice-detention-through-march-2026

Migrant Insider
Canadian Firm With No ICE Experience Just Won $704 Million Arizona Warehouse Contract
WASHINGTON — Before GardaWorld became a household name in the immigration enforcement industrial complex, it was moving cash between banks. Armored trucks. Vaults. Coin counting. Now it’s moving people…
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ICE Detention Center Contractors Host a Hotbed of Legal Problems, Regulatory Violations and Deadly Conditions

https://www.citizen.org/news/ice-detention-center-contractors-host-a-hotbed-of-legal-problems-regulatory-violations-and-deadly-conditions/

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/04/12/alligator-alcatraz-phones-were-cut-off-then-the-beatings-began-court-docs-say/

As immigrant deaths in custody grow, ICE reduces what details are made public

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/immigrant-deaths-custody-grow-ice-reduces-details-are-made-public-rcna331852

Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/17/nx-s1-5789092/deaths-of-migrants-in-ice-custody-hit-record-high-under-trump

Sister of Dead Secure Psychiatric Unit Inmate Sues DOC, Accuses Commissioner of Coverup

https://indepthnh.org/2026/04/16/sister-of-dead-spu-inmate-sues-doc-accuses-ex-commissioner-hanks-of-coverup/

Judge Compares Federal Bureau of Prisons to “Soviet Gulag”

“Outside medical referrals are like Solzhenitsyn’s sick bay in the Soviet Gulag: a coveted but nearly inaccessible refuge for which only prisoners near death qualify for admission,” U.S. District Judge Roy Dalton wrote in his order granting compassionate release to a woman on home confinement in Florida. “Nothing seems to move the nation’s federal prison system operators to improve their response to the urgent medical needs of the federal prison population,” District Judge Dalton wrote. “Court orders go unread or ignored. OIG reports are dismissed, recommendations unheeded. Sanctions brook no change.”

https://theappeal.org/federal-prisons-soviet-gulag/

Sen. Mike Lee Says Federal Prison Hung Up on Him When He Tried To Check on Inmate

https://reason.com/2026/04/15/sen-mike-lee-says-federal-prison-hung-up-on-him-when-he-tried-to-check-on-inmate/

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Attorney Expect Trump To Pardon Her

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/04/17/markus-ghislaine-maxwell-lawyer-pardon-00871508

Epstein told professor Lawrence Krauss to contact his ‘friends’ at White House

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/16/epstein-sexual-harassment-titleix-education-00874871

Epstein survivor says it’s not too late to expose what happened at his New Mexico ranch

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epstein-files-zorro-ranch-new-mexico-survivor-alleged-sexual-abuse-rcna266917

UN demands justice for Epstein trafficking victims

“That such widespread child trafficking could persist at a global level - implicating multiple globally renowned figures - brings into sharp relief the entrenched discrimination and violence of patriarchal systems of power, and the grave failures of accountability that allow them to endure.”

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/04/un-experts-demand-accountability-trafficking-allegations-epstein-files-warn

Trump Calls Epstein Survivors “Victims Or Whatever”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-ok-with-public-epstein-survivor-hearings

Judge Dismisses Trump’s Lawsuit Over Wall Street Journal Epstein Report

https://www.reuters.com/world/trumps-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-epstein-story-dismissed-now-2026-04-13/

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanchel Says He Won’t Release Even One More Epstein File

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-acting-ag-says-won-164021580.html

Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa”

If “antifa” is mentioned in the context of “references to historical or recent incidents of violence” — a category so sprawling that it includes “historic wars” and “battles” — that post will also be penalized. Should Meta apply this rule as written, the company could, for instance, restrict posts comparing the antifascist nature of World War II to the contemporary antifa movement.

https://archive.ph/Qu7yc

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro filed a motion asking for January 6th rioters convictions to be tossed out completely

https://archive.ph/kJPHb
https://archive.ph/c57Ws

Another Trump Attorney Loses Law License Over 2020 Election Scheme

https://apnews.com/article/john-eastman-trump-2020-election-loss-disbarred-abf3b3ab8f83a692992615c59db73c92

MAGA loses it as Trump-aligned attorney disbarred: ‘Clear and terrorizing message!’

https://www.rawstory.com/john-eastman-2676749140/

DISGUSTED: DC Judge Temporarily Allows Pentagon to Enforce Press Restrictions

https://www.ntd.com/federal-judge-temporarily-allows-pentagon-to-enforce-press-restrictions_1138583.html

DISGUSTED: DC Appeals Court Terminates Criminal Contempt Proceedings Against Trump Administration

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/appeals-court-orders-judge-to-end-contempt-investigation-of-deportation-flights

Trump Asks Congress For $10 Billion To Fund His Board Of Peace, With $1.25 Billion Going To The Board (Trump)

“Separately, a published report indicates that the Trump administration is seeking to reallocate $1.25 billion in funds previously appropriated for other purposes to be used for contribution to the Board. The initial $1.25 billion the administration is reportedly seeking to reallocate from previously appropriated funds for a contribution to the Board of Peace would, by itself, nearly equal the total amount of money Congress appropriated for U.S. assessed contributions to all other international organizations worldwide in 2026, and would make the Board one of the two or three largest institutional recipients of U.S. humanitarian assistance funding in the world.”

https://www.justsecurity.org/136200/questions-congress-board-of-peace/

Nearly a year after her son’s death, she learned that ICE was responsible

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/15/nx-s1-5782114/ice-shooting-texas-ruben-ray-martinez-mother

Man shot by ICE agents while trying to escape charged with assaulting federal officers

https://apnews.com/article/california-ice-shooting-carlos-ivan-mendoza-hernandez-71b60ba1007bd705454a4cef5293da6e

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-ice-shooting-carlos-mendoza-hernandez-charged-assault/71016895

Masked gunman who threatened students at anti-ICE school protest was a cop

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/04/09/armed-masked-man-hamilton-high-protest-identified-phoenix-police-sergeant/

MI cops, pretended to work for ICE, while visiting three schools to conduct “wellness checks” on students

https://www.wvxu.org/education/2026-04-16/village-gratis-officers-ice-cps-schools-students

California’s No Secret Police Act Would Ban ICE Agents From Wearing Masks

https://www.courthousenews.com/california-amps-up-effort-to-unmask-ice-agents/

Minnesota county investigates ICE agents’ removal of US citizen from his home as a possible kidnapping

https://www.courthousenews.com/minnesota-county-announces-kidnapping-investigation-into-ice-agents/

Trump Administration’s Board of Immigration Appeals Denies Mahmoud Khalil’s Bid to Throw Out Deportation Case

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/trump-administrations-board-of-immigration-appeals-denies-mahmoud-khalils-bid-to-throw-out-deportation-case

Palantir and Thales bid to control air traffic

https://theaircurrent.com/air-traffic-control/faa-smart-ai-predictive-air-traffic-management-system-palantir-thales/

Palantir Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 as It Partnered With ICE, Pentagon

https://truthout.org/articles/palantir-paid-no-federal-income-tax-in-2025-as-it-partnered-with-ice-pentagon/

Congress Turns Up Pressure on DHS Over Palantir’s Role in Immigration Crackdown
https://archive.ph/zbQNV

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Federal agencies didn’t document Palantir AI acquisition best practices because they weren’t required to

“OMB has stated that agencies should share knowledge about AI acquisitions through a web-based repository developed by the General Services Administration,” the GAO stated. “However, officials at four agencies—GSA and the Departments of Defense , Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs—told GAO they were not prepared to do so because their agency policies did not require them to collect lessons learned.

https://fedscoop.com/agency-ai-procurement-gao-report/

Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-ai-judge-journalism-a-thiel-backed-startup-says-yes-even-if-it-risks-chilling-whistleblowers/

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data

YAWN: Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts

https://archive.ph/nMNIc

Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE

https://archive.ph/PtyEI

How Republicans have insulated ICE, by giving them $75 billion

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/13/nx-s1-5771608/immigration-congress-75-billion

Louisiana Advances One of the Country’s ‘Cruelest’ Anti-Homeless Bills

One homeless advocacy group said the bill, which would require homeless people to perform unpaid labor to pay for involuntary treatment, “evokes debtor’s prisons, convict leasing, and the ugliest day of Jim Crow.”

https://www.commondreams.org/news/louisiana-homeless-bill

Tennessee’s Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers

https://wpln.org/post/tennessees-charlie-kirk-act-bans-student-walkouts-protects-conservative-speakers/

Justice Department Moves To Toss Seditious Conspiracy Convictions Of Oath Keepers And Proud Boys

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/15/g-s1-117473/justice-department-toss-seditious-conspiracy

Pulling Reports, Playing Politics (The CIA’s Embrace of White Supremacist Rhetoric)

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/pulling-reports--playing-politics

House Lawmakers Reintroduced the BITMAP Authorization Act (Biometric ID)

https://mccaul.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/mccaul-reintroduces-legislation-stop-bad-actors-entering-us

DHS and TSA Expand Research Partnership with Global e-dentity “Powered by President Trump’s Visionary Leadership”

https://globaledentity.com/

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260415296904/en/Global-edentity-Expands-Landmark-CRADA-with-DHS-TSA-Powered-by-President-Trumps-Visionary-Leadership-to-Secure-Americas-National-Identity-with-Advanced-Biometrics

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport to use facial recognition dormakaba eGates to ID passengers

https://www.airportsinternational.com/article/american-launch-e-gates-dfw

How facial recognition led to an innocent woman being jailed for 6 months

https://archive.ph/pDQdR

Maryland Woman Wrongly Jailed for Months Based on Faulty Facial Recognition Demands Apology from Police Departments

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/woman-wrongly-jailed-for-months-based-on-faulty-facial-recognition-technology-demands-apology-from-maryland-police-departments

More than a Dozen Wrongful Arrests Due to Police Reliance on Facial Recognition

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/more-than-a-dozen-wrongful-arrests-due-to-police-reliance-on-facial-recognition-technology

Lawton police to use facial recognition to ID people

https://www.kswo.com/2026/04/15/lawton-city-council-adopts-facial-recognition-policy-discusses-fees/

Syracuse, NY lawmakers move to ban facial recognition surveillance in public places

https://centralcurrent.org/syracuse-lawmakers-move-to-ban-biometric-surveillance-in-public-places/

PRIVACY NIGHTMARE: The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Facial Recognition Surveillance Machine

https://archive.ph/Dpgxy

Google Wants to Put Gucci Smart Glasses on Your Face

https://gizmodo.com/google-wants-to-put-gucci-smart-glasses-on-your-face-2000747582

Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators

https://archive.ph/qy6ui

75 Groups Demand Meta Drop Facial Recognition Smart Glasses

https://www.aclum.org/publications/coalition-letter-to-meta-regarding-frt-feature/

Apple’s Smart Glasses Are Stepping Into a Privacy Minefield

https://gizmodo.com/apples-smart-glasses-are-stepping-into-a-privacy-minefield-2000746809

Snappt uses CLEAR facial recognition to ID rental fraud applications

https://ir.clearme.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/181/clear-and-snappt-close-the-identity-gap-in-property

Evolv weapons detectors to use Omnigo watchlist facial recognition

“Through the integration with Evolv Express, Omnigo’s incident management platform transforms both weapons detection alerts and persons of interest recognition into structured incident records. Using cameras within the Evolv system, detected faces can be compared against authorized watchlists maintained in Omnigo— triggering predefined response actions when a match occurs.”

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/omnigo-expands-incident-intelligence-through-integration-with-evolv-weapons-detection-302735845.html

Tinder and Zoom partner with Altman’s World

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/world-partners-with-tinder-visa-to-bring-its-id-verifying-tech-to-more-places/

The Right Wing Origins Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/the-right-wing-origins-age-verification-laws-dont-disappear-just-because-theyre-going-bipartisan/

Josh Gottheimer’s Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification

https://reclaimthenet.org/us-bill-mandates-on-device-age-verification

https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-gottheimer-announces-bipartisan-parents-decide-act-to-protect-kids-online

Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway

https://www.theverge.com/policy/913038/age-verification-flaws

Idaho Bans Mandatory Digital ID With New Privacy Law

https://www.todayville.com/idaho-bans-mandatory-digital-id-with-new-privacy-law/

The OpenID Foundation launches digital ID working group

https://openid.net/oidf-welcomes-nist-sp-1800-42-and-announces-ekyc-work-item/

Ghost Sharks, Robo-Dogs, and the Theater of Border Technologies

https://www.techpolicy.press/ghost-sharks-robodogs-and-the-theater-of-border-technologies/

FBI Director Kash Patel’s Endless Wild Booze Binges Spilled by Top Officials

https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-patels-endless-wild-booze-binges-spilled-by-top-officials/

https://archive.ph/h7NVD

Why Congress is fighting over a central tool of American surveillance (Section 702)

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/14/nx-s1-5768270/what-to-know-about-section-702-surveillance

House GOP Leaders Advance FISA Section 702 Authorization

https://rollcall.com/2026/04/14/house-starts-uncertain-push-to-reauthorize-key-surveillance-authority/

House GOP readies vote to renew FISA 702 without a warrant amendment

https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2026/04/house-readies-vote-renew-fisa-702-without-warrant-amendment/412856

New Ad Calls Out Jim Himes For Siding With Trump & Stephen Miller on Section 702 Surveillance

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-14-new-ad-calls-out-himes-for-siding-with-trump-miller-on-surveillance/

Trump urges Republican lawmakers to unify to extend Section 702 surveillance approval

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-urges-republican-lawmakers-unify-extend-surveillance-approval-2026-04-14/

Trump Says He’s Willing To ‘Risk’ Your Rights for His Section 702 Surveillance Powers

https://reason.com/2026/04/15/trump-says-hes-willing-to-risk-your-rights-for-his-surveillance-powers/

Trump’s DOJ to appeal intelligence court ruling over use of Section 702 spying power

https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2026/04/doj-appeal-intelligence-court-ruling-over-use-spying-power/412903/

Uncovering Webloc An Analysis of Penlink’s Ad-based Geolocation Surveillance Tech

U.S. customers include ICE, the U.S. military, Texas Department of Public Safety, DHS West Virginia, NYC district attorneys, and several police departments in Los Angeles, Dallas, Baltimore, Tucson, Durham and in smaller cities and counties like City of Elk Grove and Pinal County. Our research shows that intrusive and legally questionable ad-based surveillance (i.e. without a warrant or adequate oversight) is being used by military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies down to local police units in several countries across the globe. DHS used Tangles to compile dossiers on protesters, according to an internal DHS report. Meta mentioned Cobwebs Technologies prominently in its 2021 “Threat Report on the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry,” banning it from its platform. Meta observed accounts used by Cobwebs customers engaging in social engineering and tricking people into revealing information including “frequent targeting of activists, opposition politicians and government officials.”

https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/#3-Webloc

Now you can break up with Big Tech at a bar: ‘cybersecurity disguised as a party’

Wine nights with friends, gatherings at a local lesbian bar and the February get-together are all designed for people who want to divest from companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple. At one of these parties, participants might sip cocktails and flirt with strangers while they learn how to get their personal data scrubbed from search engines or how to turn on their phone’s most advanced privacy settings. “When it comes to digital security, the idea is not ‘I have nothing to hide’,” Imani Thompson said, “but rather ‘I have something to protect’.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/big-tech-breakup-parties

The Slowing of Fourth Amendment Law, and Now Advisory Opinions

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/04/16/the-slowing-of-fourth-amendment-law-and-now-advisory-opinions-a-comment-on-chatrie-v-united-states/

Police Abuse of Access to Personal Data in the U.S. and its Global Implications

“Police officers in the US are able to look up information in government and private-sector databases without a warrant or any other court order. Police officers are human, and giving them warrantless access to large collections of data about people results in entirely foreseeable harms. The databases frequently hold flawed, outdated or simply erroneous information, but can be shockingly detailed in terms of the purported information they contain. Every move you make (in both the real world and online) can end up being recorded in databases that police officers can access, almost at will. Your license plate records, your history of other interactions with law enforcement, your family and business relationships, your social media materials. Information that used to require a trip to the archives can now be accessed with the touch of a button.”

https://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5757/dangerous-data

https://privacyinternational.org/sites/default/files/2026-04/Dangerous%20Data%20-%20RSI%20and%20PI%20-%20April%202026_0.pdf

Police Drone Policy Debate Raises Broader Concerns Over Surveillance

https://pasadenanow.com/main/police-drone-policy-debate-raises-broader-concerns-over-surveillance

City of Urbana should pass police drone surveillance ordinance

https://www.smilepolitely.com/opinion/drones-over-c-u-urbana-should-pass-police-surveillance-ordinance/

San Antonio police to use drones to spy on people at Market Square Fiesta

https://archive.ph/b0tIb

Philadelphia police expand drone use, but with little oversight from above

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/philadelphia-police-expand-drone-use-but-with-little-oversight-from-above/ar-AA20Lc6G

Contract for Oakland County surveillance drones elicits boos

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2026/04/09/contract-for-police-drones-in-oakland-county-elicits-boos-taunts-flock-board-of-commissioners/89533824007/

Bristol police to purchase 12 surveillance drones

The motion on the table was to “(transfer) the balance of the existing Axon, Inc. contract to the new Axon 10 Officer Safety Plan, which provides upgrades to all currently contracted Axon products, including state-mandated Body Worn and Vehicle dash cameras, and interview room cameras. Upgrade to Taser 10, and adds 13 (license plate readers), 3 Skydio Drones as First Responder, 3 Patrol lead drones, and two Tactical Drones, 3 Axon Dedrone (drone radars), 1 Axon Dedrone Beyond (drone detection device), 250 Fusus CCTV Streams, Auror- Retail Crime Hub.”

https://bristoledition.org/blog/2026/04/16/city-council-approves-4m-police-tech-contract-despite-privacy-concerns/

Fresno police launch drones as a first responder surveillance program

https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/77268-fresno-police-announce-launch-of-drone-as-first-responder-dfr-program-video

Alameda police to double drone surveillance fleet

https://alamedapost.com/news/alameda-police-department-plans-double-drone-fleet/

California’s “Next Gen Road Safety Act” would let police use drones on high speed vehicle pursuits (could also arm drones)

https://sanfernandosun.com/2026/04/15/proposed-legislation-introduced-to-help-police-de-escalate-high-speed-pursuits/

World Cup to use Ondas surveillance drones to spy on fans across the country

https://ir.ondas.com/press-releases/detail/300/ondas-selected-to-deploy-counter-drone-protection-for-the

Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents

https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-delivery-drone-smash

PRIVACY NIGHTMARE: Drone Delivery Is Expanding Quietly: And Most of the U.S. Hasn’t Noticed (Yet)

“Outside of the industry, most people still think of drone delivery as theoretical. That’s because drone delivery is expanding within defined service areas, often tied to specific partners such as healthcare providers or retailers. Because these networks are localized, most Americans have not encountered them directly. The result is a gap between perception and reality: limited public awareness despite ongoing operational growth.”

https://dronelife.com/2026/04/13/drone-delivery-is-expanding-quietly-and-most-of-the-u-s-hasnt-noticed-yet/

PRIVACY NIGHTMARE: Robots, drones could slash global food delivery costs to $1 per order

https://www.reuters.com/business/robots-drones-could-slash-global-food-delivery-costs-1-per-order-barclays-says-2026-04-15/

Texas A&M University and Texarkana College, receive $5M to build military drones

https://www.ktalnews.com/news/local-news/texarkana-military-drone-project-grant/

US Army trials unmanned Hunter Wolf robot with gun, radar in combat drills

https://interestingengineering.com/military/hunter-wolf-combat-robot-us-army

The Killer Robots Are Coming. The Battlefield Will Never Look the Same

https://archive.ph/rm5rl

Robot Dogs Patrolling Precious Hawaiian Crops as Food Crisis Deepens

https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-dog-food-crisis

Police Violence

Two Godley cops arrested in prostitution scheme

https://www.fox4news.com/news/godley-prostitution-arrest-ashley-ketcherside

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/arrest-of-wife-adds-new-twist-to-johnson-county-prostitution-case/4010805/

Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

https://reason.com/2026/04/16/blue-power-and-the-rise-of-police-union-politics/

Judges Accepted Far Too Many Freebies in 2023 and 2024

“158 judges reported accepting 407 gifts valued at $934,947 in total, which included private plane flights, boating trips, free condo stays and even cash between 2023-2024.”

https://fixthecourt.com/2026/04/federal-judges-accepted-far-too-many-freebies-in-2023-and-2024/

Alabama Supreme Court to Cops: It’s OK To Force a Pastor Watering Flowers To Show His ID

https://reason.com/2026/04/17/alabama-supreme-court-to-cops-its-ok-to-force-a-pastor-watering-flowers-to-show-his-id/

Maine Supreme Court opposes proposed DOJ rule that would suspend investigations into federal attorneys

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/04/15/maine-high-court-opposes-proposed-doj-rule-on-investigations-into-federal-attorneys/

MA Supreme Court: Police cannot stop and search a vehicle based on a traffic infraction that happened 24 hours earlier

https://www.universalhub.com/2026/bad-boston-traffic-doesnt-excuse-police-waiting-day-pull-over-somebody

Texas AG Paxton sues city of Houston for banning police from detaining people for ICE

https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-ag-sues-houston-over-new-ice-ordinance/

NYC prosecutors see exonerations dip amid nationwide decline, data show

https://gothamist.com/news/brooklyn-prosecutors-see-exonerations-dip-amid-nyc-and-nationwide-decline-data-show

2025 saw the fewest exonerations since 2011

“Seventy-eight percent of exonerations last year were people of color. Sixty-one percent of the exonerees were Black. We know of official misconduct in 70, or 72% of exonerations that occurred in 2025.”

https://exonerationregistry.org/sites/exonerationregistry.org/files/documents/2025Exonerations.pdf

WTF? No evidence of affair between MA judge and prosecutor, court finds. Despite assigning himself to her cases

During judge Douglas Darnbrough’s absence, the special master’s report revealed that Darnbrough was secretly facing discipline for “unprofessional conduct that allowed for the perception of impropriety.” The special master noted that the lower court investigator “regretted not asking to look at ADA Karlyn Butler’s phone” during the initial investigation. Butler handed her phone in as part of the higher court’s investigation more than a year after Darnbrough did.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/04/13/new-bedford-court-douglas-darnbrough-no-affair-evidence

VT prosecutor arrested for DUI

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/15/grand-isle-countys-top-prosecutor-charged-with-dui/

Documentary exposes police junk science that sent man to death row

https://www.stmarynow.com/state/documentary-exposes-junk-science-sent-man-death-row#google_vignette

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/jimmie-duncan-innocence-death-row-louisiana-vacate-conviction/

Dallas police charged a man with murder based on hypnosis

https://www.texasobserver.org/riding-shotgun-the-unforgotten-podcast/

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/amici-supporting-texas-prisoner-charles-flores-urge-u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-his-innocence-claims-including-those-based-on-discredited-investigative-hypnosis-evidence

NYC Black man who did 30 years for murder of Hofstra coach forced into confession by cops who denied him water

https://nypost.com/2026/04/14/us-news/man-who-did-30-years-for-murder-of-hofstra-coach-forced-into-confession-by-cops-who-denied-him-water-lawsuit/

Black Woman Sues Atlanta Cops, U.S. Govt for Wrongly Raiding Her Home in Search of Man Already in Jail

“It was unacceptable and illegal for officers to raid Cathy George’s home looking for someone who was already incarcerated.” said IJ Attorney John Korevec. “The government owes her an explanation and an apology. The government does not get to barge through your door without reason—and walk away without consequence.”

https://ij.org/press-release/atlanta-woman-sues-officers-u-s-government-for-wrongly-raiding-her-home-in-search-of-man-already-in-jail/

Man blinded by Los Angeles police during World Series Celebration gets $12M

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-16/jury-verdict-dodgers-fan-less-lethal-projectile

Appeals court: MO cops who destroyed an innocent family’s home weren’t required to verify the accuracy of “Find My” app to track down stolen Airpods

The St. Louis County officers eventually found the AirPods. They were not in house but in the street in front of the house. The officers concluded that Appellants had nothing to do with the Waffle House carjacking. Unfortunately for Appellants, by that point they had already been traumatized and embarrassed by the ordeal. Appellants argue that Detective Percich materially misstated a fact in the warrant affidavit when he stated that the stolen AirPods were at the residence of 1022 Wylin Court. They assert that Detective Percich, instead, should have been more precise about the limited precision of the Find My application. For example, Appellants suggest that Detective Percich could have included a screenshot from the Find My application; explained that the AirPods were on the street in front of 1022 Wylin Court; explained that the he could not say with certainty whether the AirPods were inside of 1022 Wylin Court; or explained that “the accuracy of the [Find My] app depends on the configuration of adjoining buildings, the location of cell towers, Bluetooth connectivity, WiFi and GPS networks, and other factors. While Detective Percich could have included these more detailed explanations, the Fourth Amendment did not require it.”

https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/26/04/251668P.pdf

Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Warrantless Trespassing by Alabama Game Wardens; Property Owners Will Appeal

“Alabama’s law that permits warrantless entry reflects a federal rule called the “open fields” doctrine. This doctrine comes from a 1924 Supreme Court case that wrongly held that private land—with the exception of a tiny ring directly around the home—is not entitled to Fourth Amendment protection. But the Alabama Constitution specifically protects against this type of warrantless entry.”

https://ij.org/press-release/court-dismisses-lawsuit-challenging-warrantless-trespassing-by-alabama-game-wardens-property-owners-will-appeal/

Denver Man Asks Supreme Court to Revive Fourth Amendment’s Warrant Requirements

https://ij.org/press-release/denver-man-asks-supreme-court-to-revive-fourth-amendments-warrant-requirements/

Boston City Council requests body cam footage from all Boston Police ‘deadly force’ incidents from 2025, 2026

https://archive.ph/SYhgk

NYPD cops on modified duty for repeatedly punching a Black man they mistook for a drug dealer

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/15/nypd-cops-on-modified-duty-for-wild-caught-on-video-brooklyn-liquor-store-clash-with-suspect/

Court Ends Historic Consent Decree That Stopped Pagedale’s Policing-for-Profit Scheme

https://ij.org/press-release/federal-court-ends-historic-consent-decree-that-stopped-pagedales-policing-for-profit-scheme/

BusPatrol The School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets

BusPatrol has attached its cameras to about 35,000 buses in 24 US states and more than 350 school districts. Public records show that, because of municipality contracts with BusPatrol, many local law enforcement agencies have spent years effectively acting as revenue generators for a for-profit company, ticketing thousands of drivers and sending most of the funds back to BusPatrol. Citations often remain high year after year, despite the company’s promises they will decline. Municipalities can wind up keeping very little money from their partnerships because of the company’s high monthly technology fees.

https://archive.ph/DNMyi

Tennessee Lawmakers Change School Threats Law After Kids Arrested for Making Jokes

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-changed

TN school cops are are arresting, zip-tying and strip searching students for making jokes

https://archive.ph/1lSRA

PA state trooper pleads guilty to creating AI-generated porn, possessing child sexual abuse material and secretly filming women

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/pennsylvania-police-ai-generated-porn-stephen-kamnik/

Police Corruption: MA State Trooper Lt. who Oversaw Karen Read Investigation Retires

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/04/13/state-police-lt-who-oversaw-karen-read-investigation-retires/

Karen Read opposes giving MA state trooper Michael Proctor chance to ‘refresh his memory’ ahead of deposition

https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/04/13/karen-read-opposes-giving-michael-proctor-chance-to-refresh-his-memory-ahead-of-deposition/

TX cop sentenced to 15 years for 2024 fatal crash (he was driving 100 MPH without lights or siren)

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2026/03/27/547343/blademir-viveros-missouri-city-police-sentencing/

VA sheriff’s department sued over fatal spike strip accident

https://archive.ph/BrwFt

DC cop charged with child porn, solicitation of a minor

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-officer-charged-with-child-porn-solicitation-of-a-minor/4090893/

VT sheriff facing more sex crime charges, including soliciting prostitution

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/16/windsor-county-sheriff-facing-more-sex-crime-charges-including-soliciting-prostitution/

NYPD cops spied on female officers through locker-room peephole

https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/nypd-boss-calls-cop-sgt-a-and-sgt-lips-suit-claims/

IN sheriff and his wife a jail matron wife charged with collecting $200k in disability checks

https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/sheriff-jail-matron-felony-charges/

A CT Police Chief’s $4.5M Gambling Secret

https://archive.ph/uiH51

University NH police chief resigns following DUI

https://www.concordmonitor.com/2026/04/14/steven-lee-resigns-portsmouth-dui/

MA state trooper who drunkenly crashed his police cruiser into a van, killing a motorist, pleads not guilty

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2026/04/15/suspended-state-police-sgt-pleads-not-guilty-deadly-woburn-crash/

MA State Police knew trooper Scott Quigley drank before crash and kept it hidden

https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/04/17/massachusetts-state-police-knew-scott-quigley-drank-before-crash-prosecutors-say/

CA deputy caught scrolling a dating app during standoff

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/riverside-county-sheriff-chad-bianco-swat-deputy-dating-app-reaction-embarrassed/

KY cop arrested on domestic violence charges

https://www.wkyt.com/2026/04/15/lexington-police-officer-arrested-domestic-violence-charge/

MI cop arrested for DUI, hit-and-run accident

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2026/04/12/off-duty-detroit-police-officer-arrested-for-suspected-dui-after-sterling-heights-crash/

OH community leaders hold news conference on video of cop pushing a 15-year-old girl during arrest

https://www.13abc.com/2026/04/13/council-holding-news-conference-video-tpd-officer-pushing-teen-during-arrest/

12 NYC corrections officers stole $228K in fraudulent pay

https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/us-news/disgraced-nyc-corrections-officers-stole-228k-in-fraudulent-pay-da/

UT cop ticketed for crashing police cruiser while on-duty

https://gephardtdaily.com/local/st-george-police-officer-cited-after-on-duty-traffic-incident/

]]><![CDATA[Woman falsely arrested for wearing a penis costume to a No-Kings rally prevails in court]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/woman-falsely-arrested-for-wearinghttps://joecadillic.substack.com/p/woman-falsely-arrested-for-wearingThu, 16 Apr 2026 13:52:22 GMT

Outside the courtroom, Mary Kay Smith was dressed up in an eggplant costume waving a “NO KINGS - NO DICK-TATORS” sign. Fairhope, Alabama prosecutor Marcus McDowell said it wasn’t a free speech case but argued “no one has a Constitutional right to dress up as an erect penis and stand on the side of the road.” McDowell said Fairhope police officer Andrew Babb attempted to de-escalate, but Renea Gamble’s non-compliance led to the charges. He called Gamble’s husband as a witness to testify that he had withdrawn bail money before they attended the protest, as if she knew she was going to break the law in advance.  “I always make sure we got bail money on us,” Larry Fletcher responded, to laughter from the gallery. “I have bail money on me now. Whenever there are this many cops around I have bail money on me.”  There were no fewer than 16 uniformed police officers standing around the perimeter of the courtroom.

https://www.courthousenews.com/penis-costume-protester-prevails-in-court/

Woman arrested for wearing giant penis costume at Alabama ‘No Kings’ rally: Caption contest

https://www.al.com/news/2025/10/woman-arrested-for-wearing-giant-penis-costume-at-alabama-no-kings-rally-caption-contest.html

]]><![CDATA[U.S. Privacy And World Privacy News]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-60dhttps://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-privacy-and-world-privacy-news-60dTue, 14 Apr 2026 14:03:09 GMTAmerican Association Of University Professors Sponsors Anti-ICE Campaign

https://www.goacta.org/2026/04/aaup-backed-toolkit-urges-students-to-create-a-crisis-on-campus-over-ice-ties/

AI NIGHTMARE: Your entire browsing history, private messages and financial details could be released for anyone to read

The program – a cutting edge, so-called ‘frontier AI‘ named Claude Mythos Preview – then informed the stunned Anthropic worker with what seemed like a boast that it had posted ‘details of its exploit’ on publicly accessible websites. Stated plainly, the AI could hack much of the most important machinery of the internet – the software that now controls power grids, water supplies, hospitals, defence systems and transport and retail networks all over the world, as well as an unimaginable quantity of personal data for billions of human beings. In short, people’s entire browsing history, their private messages and email exchanges could potentially be exposed by this AI, along with their personal, medical and financial details

https://archive.ph/XICWP

Anthropic’s most powerful AI model Mythos Preview is too dangerous for public release

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/04/08/why-anthropics-most-powerful-ai-model-mythos-preview-is-too-dangerous-for-public-release

https://cybernews.com/security/anthropic-mythos-used-exclusively-for-cyberdefense/

D.C. Appeals Court allows Trump’s White House ballroom construction to continue

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/11/nx-s1-5782084/dc-appeals-court-trump-ballroom-bunker

Trump’s World Liberty Financial uses 5 billion WLFI to borrow $75M from a platform its adviser co-founded

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/04/09/trump-s-world-liberty-financial-borrows-usd75-million-against-its-own-token-trapping-depositors-on-dolomite

Crypto Investor Justin Sun at Center of Trump Corruption Allegations Claims He’s The ‘Victim’

Justin Sun has called himself the “first and single largest victim” of World Liberty Financial.

https://gizmodo.com/crypto-investor-at-center-of-trump-corruption-allegations-now-sees-himself-as-victim-2000745483

The Official Trump token hit an all-time low in March 2026

https://cointelegraph.com/news/trump-backlash-crypto-tokens-crash

Ford cars will soon be able to read your lips

https://fordauthority.com/2026/04/future-ford-convertibles-may-get-special-lip-reading-mode-when-top-is-down/

Cars will have facial recognition/blood alcohol and emotion detection sensors

https://bmva-archive.org.uk/bmvc/2025/assets/papers/Paper_675/paper.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-43662-x

‘The Constitution demands better’: Judge orders Pentagon to restore press access

https://www.courthousenews.com/the-constitution-demands-better-judge-orders-pentagon-to-restore-press-access/

How a DOJ Opinion Could Erase Evidence of Election Suppression and Solidify Presidential Authoritarianism

https://www.cato.org/blog/paper-coup-how-justice-department-opinion-could-erase-evidence-election-suppression-solidify

CA Supreme Court orders GOP sheriff to pause election investigation and preserve seized ballots

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/california-supreme-court-orders-gop-sheriff-to-pause-election-probe-and-preserve-seized-ballots

Conservative election group drove California Republican sheriff’s ballot seizure

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/chad-bianco-search-warrants-22195911.php

A GOP-aligned group is using Klan imagery to target Black voters

https://archive.ph/6ee8I


NH House votes for review of Republican lawmaker’s ‘hate-filled’ social media posts

At issue for Republican Rep. Travis Corcoran — who maintains a busy schedule of social media traffic — are recent posts on X, in which he called for a “final solution” in response to a karaoke night invitation from a Jewish lawmaker, and another in which he talked of deporting a fellow lawmaker who was born in the Philippines: “She has to go back,” he wrote.

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-04-09/nhpolitics-nh-politics-travis-corcoran-house-legislature-review

Republicans in states across the country are attacking citizen-sponsored initiatives
“They cannot win fairly so the are changing the rules of the game,” said Chris Melody Fields Figueredo, executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, which supports state groups trying to pass citizen initiatives. “They don’t cancel democracy outright, but they create a system that is so cumbersome and so expensive and hard that you’ve taken the teeth out of the will of the people and their ability to make change.”

https://archive.ph/Dqy1V

Republican Tony Gonzales asked campaign aide for nude photos, sex in 2020

https://archive.ph/5ybiz

Trump pick wins race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-pick-wins-race-to-replace-marjorie-taylor-greene-in-congress/

FOIA Requests Point to New Pressure Over Abortion Drugs

“The next phase of America’s abortion debate may not play out in courtrooms or state legislatures – but, instead, in the inboxes of federal regulators. A growing number of Freedom of Information Act requests targeting abortion-inducing drugs suggests that the fight is moving toward the FDA and the internal decision-making behind widely used medications like mifepristone.”

https://lawstreetmedia.com/insights/foia-requests-point-to-new-pressure-over-abortion-drugs/

Abortion clinics are closing nationwide. Could urgent care help fill the gap?

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/08/nx-s1-5773333/planned-parenthood-urgent-care-medication-abortion-rural

Eika Kirk: women were “made to be mothers”

https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/erika-kirk-says-women-made-36967710

DISGUSTED: Appeals Court bows to Supreme Court in DOGE Social Security data fight

https://www.courthousenews.com/fourth-circuit-bows-to-supreme-court-in-doge-social-security-data-fight/

X is a Preferred Tool for American Propaganda. What Does It Mean?
https://www.techpolicy.press/x-is-a-preferred-tool-for-american-propaganda-what-does-it-mean/

The Chilling Role of ChatGPT in Mass Shootings and Other Violence

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/04/chatgpt-tumbler-ridge-fsu-openai-chatbots-mass-shootings/

Stalking victim sues OpenAI, claims ChatGPT fueled her abuser’s delusions and ignored her warnings

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/stalking-victim-sues-openai-claims-chatgpt-fueled-her-abusers-delusions-and-ignored-her-warnings/


OpenAI Says Elon Musk Is ‘Injecting Chaos’ with Recent Legal Maneuver

https://gizmodo.com/openai-says-elon-musk-is-injecting-chaos-with-recent-legal-maneuver-2000745384

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/trump-officials-may-be-encouraging-banks-to-test-anthropics-mythos-model/


Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup data breach

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/after-data-breach-10b-valued-startup-mercor-is-having-a-month/

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk/

Senator launches inquiry into 8 tech giants for failures to adequately report CSAM

“Meta, Amazon AI Services, TikTok, Snapchat, Discord, X.AI, Grindr and Roblox submitted more than 17 million reports of suspected online child exploitation in 2025, Grassley said in a press release, but allegedly failed to provide NCMEC with important location data and other information on users and suspects.”

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-releases-new-and-disturbing-information-on-online-child-exploitation-presses-tech-giants-for-answers

CORRUPTION WARNING: Tesla Escapes Recall As NHTSA Closes Investigation Into ‘Actually Smart Summon’ Crashes

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a70941710/tesla-avoids-recall-nhtsa-closes-probe-into-actually-smart-summon-crashes/


AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks

https://theconversation.com/ai-can-design-and-run-thousands-of-lab-experiments-without-human-hands-humanity-isnt-ready-for-the-new-risks-this-brings-to-biology-279191

There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?

“There is a reason that these tools exist and they have a position in the overall landscape,” says Girish Nadkarni, chief AI officer​ at the Mount Sinai Health System. “That’s because access to health care is hard, and it’s particularly hard for certain populations.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134795/there-are-more-ai-health-tools-than-ever-but-how-well-do-they-work/

Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice

https://archive.ph/1qLPE

Meta Is Removing Ads That Seek to Recruit Clients for Social Media Addiction Litigation

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads

DOT claims they’re not using Anthropic AI, yet

https://fedscoop.com/transportation-department-modernization-ai-chatbot/

Trump administration’s secrecy on billions of dollars in health deals alarms experts

https://archive.ph/vYEMq

Trump administration personnel agency is asking for federal workers’ medical records

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-federal-workers-medical-records/

Trump’s labor plan is a massive 401(k) greed grab for Wall Street

https://archive.ph/0FOBI

GOPD Lawmakers Passing Bills to Shield Oil Companies From Climate Lawsuits

https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity

SHAMEFUL: ME state supreme court calls Democratic ranked-choice voting expansion unconstitutional

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/06/politics/state-politics/maine-supreme-judicial-court-ranked-choice-voting-expansion-unconstitutional/

Republican’s Prosecution of Smartmatic Voting Machines

“What has Smartmatic done to run afoul of the White House? In reality, nothing—apart from providing ballot-marking devices to Los Angeles County for use in the 2020 race for the White House. But in the wild world of MAGA election denialism, Smartmatic is responsible for the rigging of voting systems around the world, including in the United States to steal that contest from Trump. The success of the company’s new motion depends on whether it can convince a judge that prosecutors are targeting Smartmatic not because of the facts of the case but because of this fantasy.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-prosecution-of-smartmatic

NH Republican governor bans student IDs from being eligible to vote

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-04-06/nh-newhampshire-voting-student-identification-school-id

Trump’s SAVE America Act would end voter registration drives nationwide

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-save-america-act-would-end-voter-registration-drives-nationwide/ar-AA20atPn

All-Source Intelligence
Congress's political action arm drops call for injunction against Trump admin after money lands in bank
The primary overseas political action arm of the U.S. Government, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), on Tuesday withdrew its March motion for a …
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Trump ​administration cannot force universities in 17 states to turn over race-related data

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-cant-make-colleges-provide-race-related-data-judge-rules-2026-04-04/

Wisconsin city passes nation’s first anti-data center referendum

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/wisconsin-city-passes-nations-first-anti-data-center-referendum-00863432

Convicted spyware maker Bryan Fleming (pcTattletale) avoids jail at sentencing

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/convicted-spyware-maker-bryan-fleming-avoids-jail-at-sentencing/

Roughly 110,000 scientific citations were fabricated by AI in 2025

“ As a rough estimate, if the rate of 65 publications with at least one invalid reference out of some 4,000 publications analyzed holds across the academic literature, it would suggest that more than 110,000 of the 7 million or so scholarly publications from 2025 contain invalid references. “

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z

DISGUSTED: Appeals Court declines to block Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklisting for now

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/d-c-circuit-rejects-anthropic-plea-to-pause-supply-chain-risk-label-00864880

Anthropic says pressure can push Claude into cheating and blackmail

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3106531/anthropic-says-pressure-can-push-claude-into-cheating-and-blackmail.html

AMD’s senior director of AI thinks ‘Claude has regressed’ and that it ‘cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering’

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/06/anthropic_claude_code_dumber_lazier_amd_ai_director/

Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything

https://archive.ph/jfxDr

Sam Altman’s Open AI May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted

Secret Service is embedding AI experts across the agency

https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/secret-service-embedding-ai-experts-across-agency/412646/?oref=ng-home-top-story

OpenAI Releases Its Vision for Reorganizing Society Around Superintelligence

https://openai.com/index/industrial-policy-for-the-intelligence-age/

OpenAI’s Altman releases blueprint for taxing, regulating artificial intelligence

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5817906-openai-ai-policy-recommendations

Trump Admin To Court: Don’t Strike Down Video Privacy Act

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/414084/trump-admin-to-court-dont-strike-down-video-priv.html

YouTube Creators Sue Amazon For Using YouTube Videos To Train AI

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/youtube-creators-sue-amazon-alleging-it-used-youtube-videos-to-train-ai-model/281-5cdc0c75-e866-4fe5-990a-e3364033d4a8

Google is secretly using your email messages to train AI

The question isn’t whether Google reads your emails — it’s whether you’re comfortable with how that data is being used and whether your current settings reflect your actual preferences.

https://wtop.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/column-is-google-using-my-email-messages-to-train-ai/

Microsoft Says You’re Not Supposed to Take Copilot’s Advice Seriously

https://www.pcmag.com/news/copilot-terms-claim-microsofts-ai-is-for-entertainment-purposes-only

AT&T and Verizon asked the Supreme Court to vacate more than $100M in privacy fines

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/414241/att-verizon-press-scotus-to-nix-privacy-fines.html

SCOTUS Should Uphold Telecoms’ Privacy Fines, Watchdogs Argue

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/413991/scotus-should-uphold-telecoms-privacy-fines-watc.html

About 80% of breast cancer biopsies turn out benign

https://theconversation.com/about-80-of-breast-cancer-biopsies-turn-out-benign-new-imaging-tool-promises-clearer-diagnoses-and-fewer-biopsies-277070

Trump Administration Finalizes 2.48% Medicare Advantage Payment Hike For 2027

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/trump-administration-finalizes-2-48-213132360.html

Trump Administration Considers Medicare Privatization

https://www.commondreams.org/news/medicare-advantage-default-enrollment

Californians sue Sutter Health and MemorialCare over AI tool that records doctor visits

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/californians-sue-over-ai-tool-that-records-doctor-visits/

Employer Coverage
Nearly Half of Metro Areas Are Dominated by One or Two Hospital Systems
Summary: A March 2026 KFF analysis found that one or two health systems controlled the entire inpatient hospital market in nearly half of all metropolitan areas, underscoring how provider consolidation continues to erode competitive pressure and drive up costs for employer-sponsored health plans…
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Low customer trust is quietly undermining utility digital payment programs

https://www.utilitydive.com/spons/low-customer-trust-is-quietly-undermining-utility-digital-payment-programs/815931/

LinkedIn Hit With Class-Action Lawsuits Over Browser-Extension Scanning

https://www.pcmag.com/news/linkedin-hit-with-class-action-lawsuits-over-browser-extension-scanning


Your TV is secretly watching you. Here’s how to stop it

https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/your-tv-is-secretly-watching-you-heres-how-to-stop-it

MA judge allows class-action suit against Baystate Health patient data sharing to proceed

https://theshoestring.org/2026/03/24/judge-allows-class-action-suit-against-baystate-health-to-proceed/


Court Allows Sharing of Medical Information Claim to Proceed Under ECPA

https://dataprivacy.foxrothschild.com/2026/04/articles/general-privacy-data-security-news-developments/court-allows-sharing-of-medical-information-claim-to-proceed-under-ecpa/

John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement

https://www.thedrive.com/news/john-deere-to-pay-99-million-in-monumental-right-to-repair-settlement

State & Local Privacy News

More states are taking privacy seriously, but their work isn’t done

https://statescoop.com/nascio-privacy-report-state-government-2026/

Oklahoma and Alabama enact weak privacy laws

https://epic.org/oklahoma-alabama-enact-weak-privacy-laws/

ME- How the state’s elite private colleges sold Wabanaki land to bankroll early construction

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/03/31/how-maines-elite-private-colleges-sold-wabanaki-land-to-bankroll-early-construction/

ME- Fear of the unknown toll on businesses again likely to sink data privacy bill

https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/03/fear-of-the-unknown-toll-on-businesses-again-likely-to-sink-data-privacy-bill/

NH- SHAMEFUL: Judges push back on proposal to make judicial evaluations public

https://indepthnh.org/2026/04/08/judges-oppose-aspects-of-hb-1130-which-would-make-their-evaluations-public/

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-04-07/nh-judges-judicial-evaluations-public-newhampshire


NH- The Office of the Child Advocate alleges abuse, punitive treatment at the Sununu Youth Services Center

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-04-10/watchdog-alleges-ydc-abuse-punitive-treatment-nh-youth-detention-center

NH- Lawmakers consider another proposal to allow school libraries to ban books, other materials

https://www.wmur.com/article/bill-book-materials-challenge-nh-schools-4826/70968307


Big Brother Warning: MA- House Passes Social Media Age Verification Digital ID Bill

https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2026-04-08/mass-house-passes-bill-to-ban-kids-under-14-from-social-media

MA- North Andover police to wear body cams

https://archive.ph/bZb0t

MA- More police officers are being prosecuted. Experts have theories as to why

“There needs to be some very significant cultural changes in the police field or these things are going to continue,” said Dennis Galvin, a retired State Police major and president of the Massachusetts Association of Professional Law Enforcement. “The system is in failure mode,” Galvin said. “State Police operate almost entirely out of the public eye and public view,” Tom Nolan a retired Boston police officer said, making it easier for misconduct to be swept under the rug. “There is a mandate for a significant cultural change.”

https://archive.ph/yOVDT

MA- The Department of Public Health settles contact-tracing app lawsuit, agrees to delete data SIX years later

https://statescoop.com/massnotify-covid-contact-tracing-app-settlement-ncla/

MA- What it means that a state ‘Open AI assistant’ will handle your personal data

“For an AI assistant to be useful to a caseworker at the Department of Children and Families, or a benefits processor at MassHealth, or a clerk at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, it needs access to the data those workers handle. Tax records. Medical histories. RMV files. Housing and rental information. Benefits documentation. The Commonwealth holds some of the most sensitive personal information of its more than 7 million residents — and under the Healey administration’s three-year, roughly $4.3-million-a-year contract with OpenAI, all of that is now in the orbit of a private AI system.”

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/the-codcast/what-it-means-that-a-state-ai-assistant-will-handle-your-data/

MA- The state’s Open AI program is more than meets the eye

https://theshoestring.org/2026/04/08/massachusetts-ai-program-is-more-than-meets-the-eye/

MA- Opposition to data centers grows in cities and towns

https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/04/06/data-centers-ai-massachusetts-pollution-pushback

NY- Rochester City council ignores privacy concerns over Flock Safety cameras

https://archive.ph/46q5P

PA- Carbon County to install license plate reader in public parking lot

https://www.tnonline.com/20260407/carbonoks-platereader/


MI- Use of Flock Safety Increases Across the State Police As Police Ignore Privacy Concerns

Statewide, more than 180 law enforcement agencies ― nearly a third of all agencies in Michigan ― now use Flock Safety technology, according to data compiled by the company. “They are entitled to their opinion, however or for whatever reason they arrived at that opinion. However, this legislative body represents all 70,158 residents of Waterford Township, and the men and women of the Waterford Police Department as well,” Waterford Township Police Chief Scott Underwood told the Board of Trustees.

https://archive.ph/AvTHC

MN- Some Twin Cities suburbs shut off license plate cameras over data sharing concerns

https://www.startribune.com/twin-cities-suburbs-quit-flock-license-plate-readers/601659518

IL- The Biometric Surveillance Act would ban police facial recognition

“House Bill 5521, introduced by Rep. Kelly Cassidy, creates the Illinois Biometric Surveillance Act, which would prevent law enforcement from accessing, obtaining, or using any biometric identification system.”

https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-lawmakers-introduce-sweeping-ban-on-law-enforcement-use-of-biometric-surveillance/

WI- Oshkosh city council to vote on renewing Flock Safety cameras

https://www.thenorthwestern.com/story/news/local/oshkosh/2026/04/07/oshkosh-flock-cameras-contract-renewal-april-21-vote-privacy-public-safety/89482966007/

Armageddon Prose
WATCH: Governor Declares Texas ‘a Land For the Indian Community’
Texas Governor Greg Abbot in a recently resurfaced and newly viral clip from 2024, to a room full of migrants enjoying a pagan ceremony at the governor’s mansion…
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CA- Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office data breach (337K files)

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-07/lapd-records-suspected-hack

CA- Palm Springs Police Open 42-7 Realtime Intelligence Drone Center

https://inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=79978

https://dronelife.com/2026/04/09/inside-the-coachella-valleys-plan-to-centralize-dfr-operations/

WA- Pullyap police to continue to use Flock Safety cameras despite ban

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/community/puyallup-herald/ph-news/article315257166.html

World Privacy News

DISGUSTED: Vice President Vance Visits Hungary to Support Viktor Orban Ahead of Election

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vice-president-vance-visits-hungary-boost-orban-ahead-pivotal-election-2026-04-07/

Germany accuses JD Vance of hypocrisy over claim that EU meddled in Hungary’s election

https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-rebuke-jd-vance-claim-eu-interferes-hungary-election/


British drone circled Lebanon hours before Israeli massacre of hundreds of civilians

https://thecradle.co/articles/british-drone-circled-lebanon-hours-before-israeli-massacre-of-hundreds-of-civilians-report

Israel’s death penalty law has little to do with criminal justice and everything to do with ethno‑nationalism

https://theconversation.com/israels-death-penalty-law-has-little-to-do-with-criminal-justice-and-everything-to-do-with-ethno-nationalism-279969

Eurail B.V. data breach affected 300K people

https://www.securityweek.com/300000-people-impacted-by-eurail-data-breach/


Basic-Fit data breach affected 1M members

https://www.reuters.com/business/basic-fit-says-data-breach-exposes-details-200000-members-netherlands-2026-04-13/

Austrian police warn of sophisticated digital ‘ID-Austria’ phishing scam

https://www.visahq.com/news/2026-04-04/at/austrian-police-warn-of-sophisticated-id-austria-phishing-scam-as-thousands-of-digital-ids-near-expiry/

PRIVACY NIGHTMARE: The IATA claims airport facial recognition and digital IDs make air travel easier

“We have proven that digital identity for international travel works securely and efficiently. For travelers to benefit from this important modernization, governments must accelerate efforts to issue and accept Digital Travel Credentials—secure digital versions of passports. The result will be stronger security, smoother journeys, and greater efficiency,” said Willie Walsh, IATA’s Director General.

https://www.iata.org/en/pressroom/2026-releases/2026-04-08-01/

Ryanair CEO calls EES ‘a shit show’ with 4-hour passport queues

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/transport/article/ryanair-ceo-michael-o-leary-ees-669gzv7qw

UK airports forced to manually check passports after facial recognition E-Gate outage

https://www.visahq.com/news/2026-04-08/gb/heathrow-and-gatwick-grind-to-a-halt-after-nationwide-e-gate-failure/


Russia- Putin’s Attempt To Block VPNs Causes Major Banking Failure

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/13/whoops-russias-attempt-to-block-vpns-causes-major-banking-failure/

Belgium- Government Awards Automated Biometric Identification System Renewal Contract to IDEMIA

https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/235576-2026

UK- Officials from BAE Systems, Leonardo and Thales sit on university advisory committees

https://www.declassifieduk.org/arms-industry-given-direct-influence-over-university-courses/

IRL- Government’s New Surveillance Bill Opens Door to Spyware Abuse

“Ireland’s proposal fits into a worrying broader European and global trend towards the normalization of spyware use,” says Aljosa Ajanovic, policy advisor at European Digital Rights (EDRi), which currently leads a pan-European campaign to protect encryption and ban spyware.

https://www.techpolicy.press/irelands-new-surveillance-bill-opens-door-to-spyware-abuse/


Kazakhstan- Court to Issue Verdict for Human Rights Activists Who Burned CCP Leader’s Portrait

https://www.rferl.org/a/china-kazakhstan-xinjiang-trial-central-asia-atajurt/33729266.html

Sri Lanka- The Ministry of Digital Economy wants to digitize all government transactions by 2030

https://www.lankatalks.com/post/a-decisive-step-towards-driving-sri-lanka-into-a-digital-economy-access-unlocked-v2-0

]]><![CDATA[U.S. News/Police Violence]]>https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-ba1https://joecadillic.substack.com/p/us-newspolice-violence-ba1Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:01:31 GMTAmnesty International condemns Trump’s apocalyptic threats against Iran

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/04/iran-president-trumps-apocalyptic-threats-of-large-scale-civilian-devastation-demand-urgent-global-action-to-prevent-atrocity-crimes/

Pro-Iran Explosive Media trolls Trump with AI-generated Lego cartoons

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/04/pro-iran-explosive-media-trolls-trump-with-ai-generated-lego-cartoons

Pentagon Threatened Pope After He Condemned Trump’s Military Attacks
https://newrepublic.com/post/208820/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-donald-trump

https://archive.ph/kI1ys


Trump posts image of himself as Jesus after attacking Pope Leo

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/trump-jesus-truth-social-post-pope-leo-image-fnjcwtw77

Trump’s Christ Cosplay Ignites Furious MAGA Backlash

https://archive.ph/gMDFr

‘Gross Blasphemy!’ MAGA Die-Hards Deliver Rare Rebuke of Trump for Posting ‘Unacceptable’ Meme Depicting Himself as Jesus

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/gross-blasphemy-maga-die-hards-105840311.html

How Trump and MAGA’s favorite strongman Viktor Orbán finally lost

https://www.vox.com/politics/485521/hungary-election-results-2026-viktor-orban-peter-magyar

Russia, China block UN Security Council resolution on Strait of Hormuz over failure to blame U.S. and Israel

Explaining Russia’s vote, Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said that the resolution presented Iranian actions as the sole source of regional tensions while illegal attacks by the United States and Israel were “not mentioned at all”.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/04/1167261

White House Warns Staff Against Insider Trading Using Iran War Information

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/10/iran-war-prediction-markets-white-house.html

Melania Trump’s Easter message to kids in war zones: Trump is bombing Iran ‘for their future’

Melania Trump Admits To Going To Parties With Epstein and Trump

“Donald and I were invited to the same parties as Epstein from time to time since overlapping in social circles is common in New York City and Palm Beach.”

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/09/politics/melania-trump-epstein-statement

The Man Who Links Melania Directly to Epstein, Trump’s Special Envoy Paolo Zampolli

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-other-man-who-links-melania-directly-to-epstein/

Why Melania’s Epstein Bomb Is Only the Beginning

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-melania-trumps-epstein-congress-bomb-is-only-the-beginning/

Trump promises mass pardons to staff before leaving office

https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-promised-mass-pardons-top-193341485.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-promises-mass-pardons-to-staff-before-leaving-office/ar-AA20BoB1

White House Unveils L’Arc de Trump: A 250-foot Golden Arch

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/10/trump-triumphal-arch-commission-plan-00867401


Trump touts newly released plans for D.C. triumphal arch

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/11/nx-s1-5782027/trump-triumphal-arch-plans-architecture

Trump’s White House Ballroom Will Be Built With Foreign Steel From ArcelorMittal
https://archive.ph/qhwe5

Kristi Noem’s $70M luxury jet to be repurposed for Melania Trump’s personal use

https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trump-now-has-access-to-kristi-noems-70-million-jet-report-11795792

U.N. says Cuba needs humanitarian aid after Trump blocked oil supplies

https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/04/1167254

US Disapproval of Israel, Netanyahu Hits All-Time High

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/04/07/negative-views-of-israel-netanyahu-continue-to-rise-among-americans-especially-young-people/

NATO Chief told to stop flattering Trump as he visits him in DC

“I would hope that Rutte remembers he represents all members of NATO, not just one” country, said Nathalie Loiseau, a centrist French lawmaker on the European Parliament’s defense committee, in a text message. “I would like him to tell Trump what he can expect from NATO allies (support if [the] U.S. is attacked) and what he shouldn’t (participation in a war without a reason and without a strategy). That would make Rutte’s reputation improve and maybe help Trump understand.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/07/trump-rutte-toughest-test-yet-00862128

NATO chief called Trump ‘Daddy’ in 2025

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/nato-chief-calls-trump-daddy-00423485

ICE Wants To Arrest 400K People Every Year

“ICE more than doubled its fiscal 2025 goal with 167,651 arrests of individuals with criminal convictions or with pending criminal charges, a 106% jump from the prior year, the agency said in the report published Friday. The DHS unit has since increased the future annual target to 400,000 arrests.”

https://fedscoop.com/ice-arrest-goals-technology-data-sharing-performance-report/

Feds claim there was no policy change to re-arrest immigrants

https://www.courthousenews.com/feds-claim-there-was-no-policy-change-to-re-arrest-immigrants/

ICE Uses “Kavanaugh Stops” To Racially Profile New York Immigrants

https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/09/ice-lawsuit-new-york-racial-profiling/

5.5M People In The U.S. Are Under Correctional Control

“The U.S. confines nearly 2 million people in prisons, jails, and detention centers, a fact which we only know by piecing together data from siloed parts of the criminal legal system. But even this number does not capture the full picture of the U.S. system of mass punishment, which ensnares 5.5 million people in incarceration, community supervision, and other forms of control and surveillance. The vast majority of people in the mass punishment system are on community supervision, either under probation (3 million people) or parole (536,000 people).”

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/correctionalcontrol2026.html

Trump’s Trade Deficit Holds Near Record Levels

https://www.statista.com/chart/8419/us-trade-deficit/

Trump Calls Tucker Carlson: ‘A Low IQ Person’ and A ‘Fool’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/04/07/trump-calls-tucker-carlson-low-iq-person-after-former-ally-slams-vile-iran-threats/

Trump threatens to jail journalist who reported on crew’s rescue in Iran if they don’t reveal source

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/06/trump-iran-pilot-rescue-media-threat-00860508

Kash Patel Announces First Arrest After Trump Threats Against Media Over Crew Rescue In Iran

https://www.thedailybeast.com/keystone-kash-patel-announces-first-arrest-after-donald-trumps-threats-against-media/

Trump Calls CNN Report on Iran Ceasefire Statement “Fake News”

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-calls-factual-cnn-report-on-iran-ceasefire-statement-fake-news/

Trump and FCC Chair Brendan Carr threaten legal action against CNN for reporting on Iran’s ceasefire

https://truthout.org/articles/trump-calls-factual-cnn-report-on-iran-ceasefire-statement-fake-news/

https://deadline.com/2026/04/cnn-trump-iran-statement-1236784202/

Top US prosecutor John Kelly exposed for hidden Epstein ties as abuse report stalled

https://www.koat.com/article/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-new-mexico/46620117

Pam Bondi defies House subpoena over Epstein files

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-deposition-subpoena-house-oversight-committee-epstein/

Congresswoman Mace Blasts Trump DOJ Over Bondi’s Refusal To Skip Testifying About Epstein

“Our motion to subpoena Pam Bondi, which was passed by the Oversight Committee, was for Bondi by name, not by title, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace said.

https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/mace-standing-firm-after-reports-indicate-bondi-to-skip-testifying-on-epstein-files-doj-subpoena-attorney-general-oversight

Trump’s DOJ Attempts to Shield Its Lawyers from Accountability for Misconduct
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/justice-department-attempts-shield-its-lawyers-accountability-misconduct

Trump Asks Appeals Court to Dismiss NY Fraud Case

https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-asks-new-yorks-top-court-to-toss-civil-fraud-judgment/

Trump’s Acting AG Defends President’s ‘Right’ And ‘Duty’ To Investigate His Enemies

https://archive.ph/8uVd1
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/acting-doj-chief-blanche-says-trump-has-right-influence-investigations-2026-04-07/

Trump’s DOJ Is Investigating Star Witness Against Trump

https://archive.ph/S9Zsm

Trump is hauling in even more Pulitzer Prize Board members to testify under oath

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trump-ignites-discovery-by-forcing-more-pulitzer-prize-board-testimony-under-oath-demands-communications-about-fusion-gps-meeting/

A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury

David Greene, EFF’s senior counsel knew of no examples during the recent wave of immigration enforcement-related investigations in which a leading tech company has been called to appear before one of the secret panels. Free speech protections are at their weakest in the context of a grand jury, he explained: The proceedings are not adversarial; their purpose is to permit a prosecutor to file charges. “We should be very, very, very concerned that they’ve now taken one of these to a grand jury,” said Greene. “It’s something to be taken very seriously.”

https://archive.ph/spTly

Trump’s Next AG Will Probably Be An Election Denier

https://archive.ph/rTq94

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Governor DeSantis signs Florida law to label groups as terrorists and expel student supporters

The law, criticized by free speech advocates, allows a top official at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to designate a group as a domestic or foreign terrorist organization, with the governor and three other members of the Florida Cabinet approving or rejecting the designation.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/06/desantis-signs-bill-allowing-state-officials-to-issue-domestic-terrorist-designations/

Pro-MAGA town in PA revolts over plans for 7,500-person DHS detention center

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/us/ice-detention-center-tremont-pennsylvania-dhs.html

Inspection Reveals Dozens Of Violations In El Paso ICE Detention Center

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/10/no-surprise-here-inspection-reveals-dozens-of-violations-in-el-paso-ice-detention-center/


DHS Won’t Rule Out ICE Facility in New Hampshire

https://indepthnh.org/2026/04/10/dhs-wont-rule-out-ice-facility-in-new-hampshire/

DHS secretary Mullin threatens to shutdown airport customs in sanctuary cities

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5818744-mullin-customs-enforcement-cities-partnership-airports/

300 Habeas Cases in Which the Trump Administration Have Defied Court Orders

“The 300 cases represented here do not represent a comprehensive list of civil litigations in which the Trump administration has violated court orders. They are, for starters, limited to habeas corpus cases in the immigration context. And they don’t even represent a comprehensive list of violated court orders in those cases. We are confident that some number of cases have escaped our efforts at identification. That said, this list of cases is more than double the size of any other list of cases in which the government violated court orders.”

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/three-hundred-habeas-cases-in-which-the-government-has-defied-court-orders

Supreme Court clears way for dismissal of case against Trump ally Steve Bannon

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-supreme-court-clears-way-dismissal-case-against-trump-ally-steve-bannon-2026-04-06/

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyers to urge appeals court to overturn conviction, sentence

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/sean-diddy-combs-lawyers-urge-appeals-court-overturn-conviction-sentence-2026-04-09/

Inside the battle at the Justice Department to get Trump what he wants (revenge)

https://archive.ph/ZMzKU

Trump administration fired 3 MA immigration judges who ruled in Öztürk, Mahdawi cases

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-13/immigration-judges-who-ruled-in-ozturk-mahdawi-cases-fired

SHAMEFUL: Judge upholds ex-Milwaukee judge’s ICE obstruction conviction
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-upholds-ex-milwaukee-judges-ice-obstruction-conviction/

Trump administration deports eight people ‘of African origin’ to Uganda

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ej43z8yw4o

Members of neo-Nazi ‘active clubs’ join combat events at secretive Virginia compound

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/07/neo-nazi-virginia-combat-event

Most People Arrested in ‘Charlotte’s Web’ Hadn’t Been Convicted of Crimes

https://www.theassemblync.com/news/politics/immigration/most-people-arrested-charlottes-web-no-conviction/

Over 6,200 Children Arrested by ICE During Trump’s Second Term

“Every American should be shocked that we’re incarcerating thousands of children,” Leecia Welch, chief legal counsel at Children’s Rights, an organization providing legal support for children in detention, said. “It just adds up to an incredible amount of trauma.”

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/ice-kids-detention-over-6200-trump


ICE labeled 1,300 arrests during Operation Metro Surge as ‘collateral’

“Collateral arrests make up around 35% of the 3,785 arrests recorded since the beginning of the surge in December. The portion of arrests that were collateral nearly doubled during the surge compared to previous months: From September to November, around 19% of the 528 arrests recorded in Minnesota were collateral. In the first two weeks of the surge, federal immigration agents recorded more collateral arrests than targeted arrests.”

https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/08/ice-labeled-1300-arrests-during-operation-metro-surge-as-collateral/

ICE arrested more than 800 people after receiving tips from TSA

https://www.reuters.com/world/ice-arrested-more-than-800-people-after-tips-us-airport-security-agency-2026-04-07/

ICE is arresting domestic abuse victims when they show up in court

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/ice-deportation-domestic-violence-victims/686629/

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor calls out Kavanaugh stops

https://archive.ph/9Qowx


She Followed Homeland Security Agents. Then Her Global Entry Was Revoked

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-watcher-global-entry-revoked_n_69d91826e4b00247ba9af588?origin=home-latest-news-unit

Man In Critical Condition After ICE Agents Fired Shots During Vehicle Stop

https://archive.ph/OhQie

New Minneapolis ICE shooting footage shows they lied about being “violently assaulted” by a man with a shovel

https://www.courthousenews.com/new-minneapolis-shooting-footage-contradicts-initial-ice-account/


DHS deported a US citizen to Mexico after threatening him with prison time

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/bryan-morales-us-citizen-deport-mexico-b2955205.html

Hundreds of sex toys displayed, thrown during anti-ICE protest in LA

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/hundreds-of-sex-toys-displayed-thrown-during-anti-ice-protest-in-downtown-l-a/

Man who tried to remove tear gas from Anti-ICE crowd facing 25 years in prison

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-prison-anti-ice-activist_n_69d3fd75e4b05047ac8f4f12

US soldier’s wife freed from ICE detention as deportation attempt continues

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-soldiers-wife-freed-ice-detention-deportation-attempt-continues-2026-04-07/

Teen who went to photograph L.A. ‘No Kings’ rally shot, blinded by DHS agent

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-07/teen-who-attended-la-no-kings-rally-shot-blinded-by-dhs-agent-attorney-says

Malicious prosecution trial over Black attorney’s arrest at BLM protest kicks off

Phoenix police officer Francisco Barrios told the judge he had no first hand knowledge of the incident and went solely off what Phoenix police officer Darrell McGee described to him. In a video of that hearing played Wednesday, Barrios says he saw a “caucasian male” pushing officers in the police footage. Jamaar Williams is Black. “You watched a video of a caucasian person, which couldn’t have been Mr. Williams?” plaintiff’s attorney Mart Harris asked. “Yes,” Barrios said. “And that caucasian person was doing the things officer McGee said happened? Attorney Mart Harris asked. “Yes,” Barrios answered

https://www.courthousenews.com/malicious-prosecution-trial-over-phoenix-attorneys-arrest-at-protest-kicks-off/

Two Pro-Palestinian protesters at UC Irvine charged with not dispersing are acquitted

https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/04/07/2-men-charged-with-not-dispersing-during-pro-palestinian-protest-at-uci-are-acquitted/

The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice

Bill would reform ICE (ban masks and force then to wear body cams)

https://fitzpatrick.house.gov/2026/4/fitzpatrick-suozzi-unveil-bipartisan-bill-to-fund-dhs-reform-ice-and-protect-america

Environmentalists renew calls for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ shutdown at Appeals Court

https://www.courthousenews.com/environmentalists-renew-calls-for-alligator-alcatraz-shutdown-at-11th-circuit/

Reno police made thousands of unlawful arrests using face ID, suit says

https://archive.ph/pus32

Judge’s ruling exposes city of Reno to liability in facial ID lawsuit

https://www.aol.com/news/judges-ruling-exposes-city-reno-225218195.html

Appeals Court Rules Illinois BIPA Damages Limitation Applies Retroactively

https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-privacy/seventh-circuit-holds-that-bipa-amendment-applies-retroactively/

NY Gaming Commission Proposes Mandatory Facial Recognition to Verify People Are Over 21

https://cnycentral.com/news/local/gov-hochul-announces-2026-plan-to-curb-underage-sports-betting-ai-artificial-intelligence-new-york-gamble-legally-gaming-commission-chair-brian-odwyer-activity-triggers-nyproblemgambling-help-gambling-social-security-cbs6-wrgb

This Person Does Not Exist Random Face Generator

https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Arizona DOT to use AstreaX digital IDs

https://azdot.gov/news/arizona-wallet-newest-choice-digital-documents

BS WARNING: Researchers claim mmWave emotion recognition will preserve privacy

“Compared to conventional methods, mmWave radar could obtain vital signs in a non-contact method without privacy concerns. We used validated stimuli to induce participants’ emotions and simultaneously recorded three types of signals: mmWave signals, photoplethysmography pulse signals, and galvanic skin response signals. Participants used the Self-Assessment Manikin to provide subjective emotion ratings.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07159-6

BS WARNING: Palm scanning company Handwave claims 50% of consumers would pay with their palm if privacy is guaranteed

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/handwave-half-of-consumers-would-pay-with-their-palm-if-privacy-is-guaranteed-survey-finds-302724858.html

Report says biometric scanning market will be worth $16.31 billion by 2031

https://www.goodeintelligence.com/report/biometric-physical-access-control-market-technology-analysis-forecasts-2026-2031/

CIA To Integrate AI ‘Co-Workers’ To Process Intelligence

https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/cia-plans-ai-coworkers-deputy-director-says/412744/

Former national security officials urge Congress to renew Section 702 before expiration

https://www.nextgov.com/policy/2026/04/former-national-security-officials-urge-congress-renew-section-702-expiration/412703

FISA Reauthorization Fearmongering and Disinformation Kicks Into Overdrive

https://www.cato.org/blog/fisa-reauthorization-fear-mongering-kicks-overdrive

House Dems decry confirmed ICE usage of Paragon spyware

“It’s outrageous that DHS and ICE are using this spyware with no Congressional oversight and a complete lack of compliance standards,” Democratic Reps. Summer Lee, Shontel Brown and Yassamin Ansari said in a joint statement. “Given the track record of the Trump Administration, ICE’s feigned compliance with existing standards doesn’t mean much; we need to see proof and evidence of ironclad safeguards.

https://cyberscoop.com/ice-using-paragon-spyware-house-democrats-letter/

Predatorgate: Breaking the chain of impunity of the spyware underworld

“Espionage constitutes a serious felony – not only a misdemeanor – and could lead to significantly harsher penalties and to a relevant analysis of the ties between Israeli spyware companies, their clients, and the Israeli Government. This development could finally address the question of whether – and which – state authorities were involved in Predatorgate, since the trial focused only on private individuals.”

https://edri.org/our-work/predatorgate-breaking-the-chain-of-impunity-of-the-spyware-underworld/

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

https://archive.ph/bSQhD

iPhone owners urged to change this key privacy setting after FBI recovers suspect’s deleted Signal messages

https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone-owners-urged-to-change-this-key-privacy-setting-after-fbi-recovers-suspects-deleted-signal-messages

The Supreme Court’s Next Big Fourth Amendment Case (Geofence)

https://reason.com/2026/04/09/the-supreme-courts-next-big-fourth-amendment-case-2/

How Your Data Is Powering Trump’s Surveillance State

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/how-your-data-is-powering-trumps-surveillance-state/

35 police departments are using Longeye AI

Longeye operates in a “closed sandbox,” meaning it is entirely walled off from outside information that could compromise the analysis or provide faulty feedback — common criticisms of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude. Longeye is largely designed to analyze documents, data, audio and video obtained by police through a warrant, unlike some facial recognition tools that have proved unreliable. An investigative tool like Longeye may not be covered under existing state laws, since it currently does not write patrol reports, said Kate Chatfield, executive director of the California Public Defenders Association, which advocated for the California law.

https://archive.ph/f837V

Syracuse police FINALLY notify 15K people affected by data breach from 2025

“Mayor Sharon Owens’ administration briefed the Syracuse Common Council on the matter after letters went out. Sources familiar with that briefing said as many as 15,000 people were named in the compromised files, which date back to the 1980s.”

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04/letters-sent-to-possible-victims-in-syracuse-police-data-breach-that-cost-city-250k.html

Appeals Court Flock Safety ruling: there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy of public movement on the roads

https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opncavwp/1912241.pdf

ICE Uses Wildlife Conservation Police to Access Flock Safety License Plate Reader Databases

“The records in question were obtained from Ball State University by the journalist David Covucci, who covers college sports for his website FOIABall. The documents showed that, beyond the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission police, ICE used the Texas Department of Public Safety, Grant County Indiana Sheriff’s Office, Lake County Indiana police, Sarasota County Florida police, Brevard County Florida Sheriff’s Office, Nebraska State Patrol, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Fort Pierce Florida Police Department, and Mississippi Department of Public Safety to do immigration-related Flock searches in January.”

https://archive.ph/DdnDp

Does your school use Flock Safety license plate readers? Here are 75 that do

https://www.foiaball.com/p/flock-cameras-university-colleges-full-list

Why some cities are shutting down Flock Safety cameras amid privacy concerns

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/06/flock-cameras-privacy-concerns

This Wisconsin City Ditched AI Surveillance Cameras. Now Activists Want to Keep Going

https://boltsmag.org/verona-wisconsin-ends-contract-flock-ai-surveillance-cameras/

Wichita police to purchase two robotic dogs with no policy in place

Wichita City Council member Maggie Ballard, echoed by a couple of other council members, looked to delay the decision even further -- until WPD could establish policy and guardrails. “They’ve had a month to come up with a policy. We don’t have a policy. How are we going to implement these safely when we do not have a policy?” asked one public speaker. “People want investment in these things. They’re not opposed to them. They want to be a part of the process of building out policy guidelines and understanding the data,” said Joseph Shepard.

https://www.kake.com/home/wichita-city-council-approves-purchase-of-robotic-police-dog-spot/article_39ed245a-f49a-4555-9d0c-8dada5d28323.html

POLICE STATE WARNING: The National Police Association Endorses the use of Non-Lethal Drones Bill

Soon cops everywhere will be using ‘nonlethal deescalation unmanned aircraft’ to taser, pepper spray and ram protesters at 80-100 MPH. It won’t be long before they will be able to tear gas people.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-national-police-association-endorses-the-de-escalation-drone-pilot-program-act-302737764.html

Florida High School Is Installing Tactical Police Drones Designed to Stop School Shooter Attacks

Police drones can taser, pepper spray and ram a student at 80-100 MPH. It won’t be long before they will be able to tear gas people.

https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/florida-high-school-getting-tactical-152014124.html

Police license plate readers offer a false choice between public safety and privacy

https://rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/04/06/police-surveillance-cameras-offer-a-false-choice-between-public-safety-and-privacy/


Police State Warning: Scottsdale’s Real Time Crime Center and “Drone as First Responder” Program Win National Smart Cities Award

Only in America are police given awards for spying on Americans!

“We are the eyes in the sky. So yes, I have access to over 6,000 camera feeds,” said Kathy Steinke, a Scottsdale Police Real Time Crime Center technician. Those feeds include business and traffic cams, license plate readers, and drones. “More often than not, the drone is overhead of the crime scene before the patrol officers even get there,” said Marcos Hernandez, a Scottsdale Police Real Time Crime Center technician and drone pilot.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/scottsdale-police-win-national-award-technology-drones-used-crime-response

Oakland County sheriff’s ignore privacy concerns over Flock Safety drones

Rochester Hills resident Holli Munro believes drones and AI will lead to more cases like Angela Lipps’. “Once we grant access, it will just go further and further to infringe on our rights and protections guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution,” she said.

https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/2026/04/oakland-county-weighs-flock-drone-deal-amid-privacy-concerns.html

Eyes in the Sky - Peace Officers (Drone) Research Association of California

https://porac.org/article/eyes-in-the-sky/

The Mithril Defense Police Drones Coming to Schools to Stop Mass Shootings

https://www.wsj.com/business/a-startup-is-supplying-drones-to-high-schools-to-stop-mass-shootings-a7800ade

Pasadena Police Oversight Committee Proposes Police Drone Policy Safeguards And Facial Recognition Ban

https://pasadenanow.com/main/pasadena-oversight-commission-to-weigh-proposed-drone-policy-safeguards-including-facial-recognition-ban-weapons-prohibition

Cobb County police get $11M to purchase drones as first responder surveillance program and CCTV cameras during World Cup

https://nationaltoday.com/us/ga/kennesaw/news/2026/04/08/cobb-county-secures-10-7m-for-world-cup-drone-security/

Normal Police to launch drones as first responder surveillance program

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/normal-police-start-drone-program-001406361.html

Fort Collins police to launch drones as first responder surveillance program

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/northern-colorado-fort-collins-drone-response-program-police-fire-utilities/

Police drone programs expand in Central Florida, but restrictions remain

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2026/04/02/police-drone-programs-expand-in-central-florida-but-restrictions-remain/

DRONERESPONDERS Announces Addition of Former DOJ, FAA Official to Expand Police Drones

https://www.droneresponders.org/post/droneresponders-announces-addition-of-former-doj-faa-official-to-unite-public-safety-uas-training-t

Police Violence

NYPD cops share AI photos of KKK-hooded police standing over a gorilla

https://nypost.com/2026/04/11/us-news/racist-posts-in-nypd-units-chat-group-feul-hispanic-officers-lawsuit/

A Maryland Hospital Held a Woman for Months Against Her Will. The Supreme Court Will Decide if She Can Sue

https://reason.com/2026/04/10/a-maryland-hospital-held-a-woman-for-months-against-her-will-the-supreme-court-will-decide-if-she-can-sue/

As Election Looms, Washington Wonders if Trump Will Get a New Supreme Court Pick

https://archive.ph/K7Gtq

Supreme Court remade by Trump ushers in historic defeats for civil rights

https://archive.ph/3Si3V


Trump administration’s volume of emergency docket appeals ‘unprecedented’

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-emergency-docket-sotomayor-9b44e480117fbc83adc587824efd29a4

Beware Brett Kavanaugh: Trump’s Favorite Supreme Court Justice

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-trump-s-favorite

Lawsuit Reveals: Supreme Court Justices Travel to Exotic Locales and Safari’s
https://fixthecourt.com/2026/04/documents-from-state-show-the-justices-are-well-traveled-and-well-covered/

WTF? Ohio judges can now publicly endorse political candidates

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/investigations/3news-investigates-ohio-judges-can-publicly-endorse-political-candidates-supreme-court-opinion-kennedy-fischer/95-dd24496a-78c8-4faa-968d-f726a4686a40

Judge facing ‘super drunk’ charge takes plea deal

https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/federal-judge-facing-super-drunk-charge-takes-plea-deal-drunk-driving-emmet


VT Supreme Court pulls Addison County prosecutor’s law license following DUI conviction

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/10/vermonts-top-court-pulls-addison-county-prosecutors-law-license-following-dui-conviction/

Coalition of 14 state AGs is fighting back against organized, politically motivated MAGA campaigns

“West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is leading a coalition of fourteen state Attorneys General in fighting back against organized, politically motivated campaigns designed to intimidate Department of Justice attorneys and cripple the federal government’s ability to enforce the law.”

https://ago.wv.gov/article/west-virginia-urging-doj-protect-federal-attorneys-political-groups-who-are-weaponizing-bar

Half of Costilla County county’s sheriff’s officers indicted for abuse of a corpse

https://apnews.com/article/colorado-sheriff-indictment-costilla-corpse-abuse-c2430a8ebb2114bc55151d49a2ac1a03

Sheriffs across Colorado step in to help Costilla County after nearly whole Sheriff’s Office indicted

https://www.cpr.org/2026/04/06/costilla-county-indictment-sheriffs-department/


MA state trooper accused of child abuse facing more charges

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/04/12/state-police-trooper-accused-of-child-abuse-facing-more-charges/

Appeals Court rejects additional charges for Georgia cops who shot a mentally-ill Black man 76 times

https://www.courthousenews.com/11th-circuit-rejects-additional-charges-for-officers-who-shot-black-man-76-times/

How Incarceration Reinforces Poverty in Black and Brown Communities

The poorest communities are the ones most policed and funneled into prison. A high percentage of incarcerated bodies are poor Black and brown people. According to a survey by the Ella Baker Center, roughly 65 percent of families with a loved one in prison were unable to meet their basic needs because court-related fines and fees sent them into debt of more than $13,000 on average. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, 58 percent of families could not afford “the costs associated with a conviction.”

https://www.vera.org/news/paying-for-prison-how-incarceration-reinforces-poverty

Report Details Inhumane Conditions Inside Prisons

https://prisonjournalismproject.org/2026/03/18/small-prison-cells/

ME man who spent years in solitary confinement gets $250K settlement

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/09/mainefocus/mainefocus-police-courts/zachary-swain-maine-solitary-confinement-settlement-joam40zk0w/

Thousands Of MA Prisoners Are Stuck On Education Waitlists

https://binj.news/2026/04/08/the-waiting-game-thousands-of-mass-prisoners-are-stuck-on-education-waitlists/

Innocent Black man who spent 31 years in prison sues Nassau County DA’s office and police for malicious prosecution

The Nassau County D.A. announced shortly after his release that they would re-try him from murder. That trial brought fresh revelations Ellis had been railroaded — “a 234-page file titled ‘Unnamed Homicide Squad investigative file,’ consisting of NCPD police notes, homicide lead sheets, arrest records, and statements by witnesses and suspects from the NCPD investigation, all pointing to additional leads and suspects never before disclosed,” according to the lawsuit.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/07/brooklyn-man-who-wrongly-served-31-years-for-murder-sues-nassau-county-for-malicious-prosecution/

NY Black man exonerated for murder, is ‘a force of nature’ fighting for prisoners

https://gothamist.com/news/exonerated-for-murder-jabbar-collins-is-a-force-of-nature-fighting-for-ny-prisoners

Did a Kalamazoo County cold case team prioritize closing cases over objective truth?

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2026/04/did-a-kalamazoo-cold-case-team-prioritize-closing-cases-over-objective-truth.html

https://wwmt.com/news/local/jeff-titus-settlement-detectives-wrongful-arrest-prison-murder-doug-estes-jim-bennett-crime-court-kalamazoo-county-michigan

Police Destroyed Innocent People’s Property—and Left Them With the Bill. Will the Supreme Court Step In?

https://reason.com/2026/04/07/police-destroyed-innocent-peoples-property-and-left-them-with-the-bill-will-the-supreme-court-step-in/

Innocent Property Owners Deserve ‘Just Compensation’ When Cops Destroy Their Homes or Businesses

https://reason.com/2026/04/08/innocent-property-owners-deserve-just-compensation-when-cops-wreck-their-homes-or-businesses/

Why hasn’t the Boston police murder of an unarmed Black man led to large protests?

https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2026-04-06/why-hasnt-the-boston-police-killing-of-a-black-man-led-to-large-protests

Boston cops who turned out for Nicholas O’Malley’s arraignment violated policy and MA state law

https://flipsidenews.net/were-they-off-duty-or-on-the-publics-dime-cops-who-turned-out-for-arraignment-violated-bpd-policy-or-state-law/

Boston Police attorney rejects City Council calls to release body cam footage tied to fatal police shooting of unarmed Black man

https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/04/07/boston-police-attorney-rejects-city-council-calls-to-release-body-cam-footage-tied-to-fatal-police-shooting/

MA cop’s DNA was found on murder weapon around Sandra Birchmore’s neck

https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/04/06/ex-stoughton-cop-matthew-farwells-dna-was-found-on-murder-weapon-around-sandra-birchmores-neck-feds/

LAPD cops FINALLY go on trial over excessive force claims during Dodgers celebrations from SIX years ago

https://www.courthousenews.com/lapd-officers-go-on-trial-over-excessive-force-claims-during-2020-dodgers-celebrations/

CA cop charged with two felonies tied to missed court appearances

https://archive.ph/ZPMc5

Louisiana police chief, 4 cops and mayor accused of sharing protected information with defendant

https://www.kplctv.com/2026/04/07/mamou-police-chief-arrested-malfeasance-charge/

NYC mayor steps back from pledge on total elimination of NYPD gang database

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/04/06/mayor-mamdani-steps-back-from-pledge-on-total-elimination-of-nypd-gang-database/

NYC Mayor Mamdani signals openness to NYPD gang database, citing reforms

https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-mamdani-signals-openness-to-nypd-gang-database-citing-reforms

11K cops sign petition to keep NYPD officer who threw a cooler at a man on a scooter killing him out of prison

https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/national/nearly-11-000-cops-petition-for-no-prison-time-for-cooler-cop-nypd-sgt-erik/article_31bda05a-75ad-5e08-9cc9-d4671dd955ce.html

NYPD cop who threw a cooler at a man on a scooter sentenced to a mere 3-9 years

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-police-cooler-throwing-death-sentencing-63f8537712e6de2a2dd4d98a359ed0b1

MA police chief charged with committing fraud while leading department

https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2026/04/08/former-mass-police-chief-charged-with-committing-fraud-while-leading-department/

TX cop arrested for pulling gun on ex-wife and man while in uniform

https://abc13.com/post/uniformed-police-officer-arrested-pulling-gun-ex-wife-man-court-documents-show/18766244/

VT sheriff with criminal convictions who lost his certification, could be placed on national blacklist

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/06/blocked-from-police-work-in-vermont-ex-addison-county-sheriff-faces-possible-new-black-mark/

VT sheriff who kicked a handcuffed man won’t seek reelection

https://vtdigger.org/2026/04/06/john-grismore-embattled-sheriff-of-franklin-county-wont-seek-reelection/

3 Florida cops arrested in overtime abuse investigation

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/jacksonville-officers-arrested-jso-overtime-investigation/77-43eb5f97-d037-405c-bf14-b8d1fc0d504b

MA state trooper pleads guilty in COVID-19-era Paycheck Protection Program fraud scheme

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/04/11/retired-mass-state-police-sergeant-pleads-guilty-in-ppp-fraud-scheme/

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