June 20, 2022 Roundup
U.S. News
Neighbors Upset After Confederate Store Reopens in Kennesaw, Georgia (Niglet Scalps)
https://news.yahoo.com/neighbors-upset-confederate-store-reopens-224925252.html
Ohio Utility Accused of Disproportionately Disconnecting Service in Low-Income Neighborhoods:
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2022/06/17/aep-outages-target-poor-city-neighborhoods-data/7634706001/
Inside The ACLU’s Post-Trump Reckoning
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aclu-trump-presidency-turmoil_n_62aa0e54e4b06169ca93c6a2
ACLU Aids Fraudster Who Scammed Hundreds of Illegal Immigrants:
https://freebeacon.com/courts/aclu-aids-fraudster-who-scammed-hundreds-of-illegal-immigrants/
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2022/02/10/17-10548.pdf
White House Accused of ‘Blacklisting’ Reporters They Don't Like:
White House denies ‘blacklisting’ media but can’t explain lack of access to Biden events:
Pentagon finally admits to running 46 Ukrainian biolabs:
US asked to explain after Pentagon admits to operating 46 biolabs in Ukraine:
US Nonprofits As Drivers of Illegal Israeli Settlements:
U.S. Secretly Reviews Israel’s Plans for Strikes Against Iranian Targets in Syria:
https://archive.ph/LmIE1#selection-111.5-111.89
Calls to 'Stop the Deal' as US Military Contractor (L3Harris Tech) Moves to Buy NSO Group:
White House Warns L3Harris Against Acquiring NSO’s Infamous Spyware Firm:
https://gizmodo.com/white-house-nso-group-pegasus-l3harris-acquisition-isra-1849063061
WHO chief ‘believes Covid DID leak from Wuhan lab’ after a ‘catastrophic accident’ in 2019:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18933725/who-covid-leaked-wuhan-lab-china/
NYC Vaccine Lawsuit: New Judge Owns Owns Pfizer Stock…and AstraZeneca, Merck, Sanofi, GSK and Moderna affiliates
CDC: Moderna COVID vaccine may pose higher heart inflammation risk
https://www.yahoo.com/news/moderna-covid-vaccine-may-pose-122549390.html
Swamped US Vaccine Compensation Programs Mean Years of Waiting for People with Vaccine Injury Claims:
Fifth largest life insurance company in the US paid out 163% more for deaths of working people ages 18-64 in 2021:
The Truth Never Mattered at Guantánamo:
"The deceit and lies and cover-ups of the worst moments in post-9/11 history have created an endless stage of hypocrisy for all the world to see."
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/11/the-truth-never-mattered-at-guantanamo/
Supreme Court Upholds ‘State Secrets’ Privilege to Protect CIA Torture Program:
Supreme Court Rules Thousands of Immigrants Can Be Detained Indefinitely:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/supreme-court-rules-thousands-immigrants-180319848.html
How ICE Sidesteps the Law to Find and Deport People:
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/how-ice-sidesteps-the-law-to-find-and-deport-people
DHS to punish border agents accused of ‘whipping’ migrants:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-punish-border-patrol-agents-haitian-whipping-incident
‘Whipping’ Border Patrol incident shown on challenge coin:
Border Patrol Checkpoints and the Drug War: The Insanity Continues
https://www.cato.org/blog/border-patrol-checkpoints-drug-war-insanity-continues
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104568
Michigan Law Lets Cops Seize Cash At Airports, No Crime Required:
Five Eyes outlines data sharing strategy, biometrics:
https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/travel-data/
https://www.dhs.gov/publication/five-country-joint-enrollment-and-information-sharing-project-fcc
Former Employees Say ID.me Grew Too Fast, Got Too Careless With Users Data:
BS Warning: ID.me Appoints Renowned Computer Scientist Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno as its new Head of Technology & Equity Research
https://insights.id.me/press-releases/id-me-appoints-tadayoshi-kohno/
How the Boca Raton police plan to join a facial recognition program:
Colorado Limits Police Use of Facial Recognition:
Digital ID companies thrived during the pandemic. Only now are their privacy claims being challenged:
https://reclaimthenet.org/digital-id-companies-privacy-claims-challenged/
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee tells officials that digital ID's stop fraud:
Canada- IdentityNORTH Summit says pandemic has spurred need for digital ID's:
https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/identitynorth-summit-fortier-says-pandemic-has-spurred-need-for-digital-credential-initiative/488477
Judge approves $6M settlement against plasma clinic for fingerprint scans:
The New York Credit Union Association invests $2.5M in Illuma Labs voice ID of its members:
White House used Executive Order 13526 to Stop or Hide Embarrassing Things Officials do from the Public:
EFF’s Flagship Jewel v. NSA Dragnet Spying Case Rejected by the Supreme Court:
How the Feds Buy Our Cell Phone Location Data:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government-buys-our-cell-phone-location-data
U.S. Marshal Charged with Unlawfully Obtaining Cell Phone Location Information:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1512776/download
Will Your "Smart" Devices and AI Apps Have a Legal Duty to Report on You?
Senator Markey Says Amazon Ring's Audio Surveillance Capabilities "Threaten the Public"
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/14/amazon-ring-camera-police-privacy-ed-markey/
Lawsuit claims Alexa uses voice commands to send targeted ads to users’ without their consent:
GE’s latest washing machine has Amazon’s spying Alexa built-in:
https://www.geappliances.com/profile-laundry
Amazon to begin ‘Prime Air’ drone delivery in first city:
https://thehill.com/news/3522035-amazon-to-begin-prime-air-drone-delivery-in-first-city/
Worcester City Council votes to support police drone ignores civil liberties concerns:
Grubhub and Cartken Partner to Bring Robot Deliveries to College Campuses:
Police Violence
Rape victim ordered to pay her abuser child support:
https://www.wbrz.com/news/investigative-unit-rape-victim-ordered-to-pay-her-abuser-child-support/
After Uproar DA Forced to Review Case Where Victim Lost Custody to Rapist:
Appeals Court: Mississippi DA who regularly strikes potential jurors because of their race cannot be sued
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/20/20-60913-CV0.pdf
Washington Supreme Court: “Stopped While Black” Becomes a Legal Defense
https://www.city-journal.org/stopped-while-black-becomes-a-legal-defense
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department discusses the coc hearing on deputy gangs:
https://lasd.org/lasd-officials-discusses-the-coc-hearing-on-deputy-subgroups/
Why The NYPD Has An Office in Singapore:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nypd-stresses-work-with-overseas-partners-in-terror-fight/
Rep. and Former Cop Introduces the Law Enforcement Officer Fair Retirement Act
"Rep. Val Demings has led on police issues in Congress, rejecting defunding the police and leading legislation to fund departments."
FBI Agents Arrest Honolulu Prosecutor for Bribery:
Prosecutors Advised to Collect Less Evidence in Corporate Crime Investigations:
Criminal Defense Lawyers Warn Ending Roe Will Fuel Mass Incarceration:
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105291030/scotus-roe-v-wade-abortion-law
Reliability of FBI 2021 Crime Data Questioned Amid Widespread Reporting Failures:
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/14/fbi-crime-data-2021-police-reporting-failures
Herald-Tribune challenges order against identifying deputies in fatal shooting:
Uvalde Revealed the False Promise of Police Militarization:
Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Argue It Doesn’t Have to Release School Shooting Public Records:
Judge Allows Lawsuit to Continue – Suit Charges ‘Violent’ Sacramento Cops Who Protected ‘White Supremacists’
Police Are Still Killing Too Many Americans. Why Can’t We Do Something About It?
"According to The Washington Post, in the past 12 months at least 1,049 people were shot to death by police. Some were justified but many were not. What have public officials done about this continuing crisis? Mostly nothing."
Police lethal violence against Black people may affect clearance of crimes involving Black victims:https://phys.org/news/2022-06-police-lethal-violence-black-people.html
House passes bill expanding police protection to families of Supreme Court justices:
Philadelphia House Republicans Start Impeachment Proceedings Against DA Larry Krasner:
How Reactionary Prosecutors Thwart Criminal Justice Reform:
Uvalde Police Bodycam Footage Suppressed Because It Could Expose ‘Weakness’
Tennessee made homeless camps a felony. Colorado is trying something else:
White Cop Resigns One Year Later After Being Caught Attacking Black Woman Walking Dog
https://abc7chicago.com/north-avenue-beach-chicago-police-department-bruce-dyker-body-cam/11948396/
Black Man Targeted by Police for His Political Speech. Now, He's Suing:
https://reason.com/2022/06/13/he-was-targeted-by-police-for-his-political-speech-now-hes-suing/
Black Teen Ticketed by a School Cop for a Theft She Says Didn’t Happen. Years Later, She’s Still Fighting:
https://www.propublica.org/article/school-police-tickets-illinois-naperville
Body cam footage shows 13-year-old killed by San Antonio police was not a threat:
Video Shows 13-Year-Old Black Teen With Hands Up When Shot by Chicago Cop:
Lawsuit Accuses Police of Unlawfully Arresting a High Schooler in the Early Days of the Pandemic:
https://www.propublica.org/article/civil-rights-lawsuit-accuses-police-of-unlawfully-arresting-a-high-schooler-in-the-early-days-of-the-pandemic
Cop Arrested For Killing Unarmed Man Sitting in a Chair:
https://www.rhinotimes.com/news/greensboro-police-officer-indicted-by-grand-jury-for-manslaughter/
Cop Who Shot an Unarmed Mentally Ill Man Over Broken Glass Retires To Avoid Prosecution:
Case thrown out against Roddy Ricch, who leads chant against NYPD after release:
Attorney Tor Ekeland sues NYPD cops after arrest for destroying son’s laptop:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/tor-ekeland-sues-nypd-after-nyc-arrest-for-destroying-laptop/
NYPD cop admits to making up story about being the victim of grand larceny after he rear-ended a car:
https://www.bxtimes.com/cop-admits-making-up-story-deegan/
Cop who raped a woman 14 years ago finally indicted on civil rights violations charge:
Man Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Visiting a Barbershop Too Often:https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/man_sentenced_to_five_years_in_prison_for_visiting_a_barbershop_too_often_lacking_proof_court_relies_on_algorithm_to_assume_scope_of_crime
NH DOJ to appeal personnel records release of fired state trooper, claim they are exempt from FOIA requests:
Two Boston cops arrested on domestic violence charges in separate incidents:
Former MA cop accused of offering woman cash for sex acts, impersonating law enforcement:
HOA tells father of fallen cop to take down Thin Blue Line flag:
Appeals Court: Arkansas cop who stalked a woman around town and had her falsely arrested can not be sued
https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/22/06/211685P.pdf
Appeals Court: Georgia cops who shot a suicidal man three times and pistol-whipped cannot be sued
https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201812371.pdf
Appeals Court: Off-duty New Mexico deputy who got upset at motorist for passing him and pulled a gun on motorist in man's driveway cannot be sued
Appeals Court: PA corrections cops can't be sued for denying prisoner access to law library and paper copies of legal documents
https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/202531p.pdf
Appeals Court: Virginia corrections officers can sued for keeping prisoners in solitary confinement for 22-24 hours per day
https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/211714.P.pdf
Captive Labor: Stories of Involuntary Servitude
https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-stories-of-involuntary-servitude
Incarcerated Workers are Exploited ‘Captive Labor’
https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2022-06-15-captivelaborresearchreport.pdf
The Sorrows of Spike Island a British-Made Prison in Ireland:
Under this system, people convicted of felony offenses were involuntarily exiled to distant colonies across the British Empire. It was common for an Irishman or Irishwoman to be sentenced to seven years transportation to Australia, whereby they were deported from Ireland and pressed into penal servitude. When they had completed their sentence, they were freed, but they were not allowed to return home. For the British, this process achieved two objectives: It rid society of people they considered undesirable, and, at the same time, supplied their colonies with a much-needed labor force. “What they were doing was harvesting the poor and sending them away,” says Barra O’Donnabhain. According to O’Donnabhain, the criminal justice system of the time was purposely stacked against the young. “They were really harvesting these kids for the colonies,” he says. “They were looking for young, fit men and women. They’re not going to bother transporting a 50-year-old; it’s a waste of time and money. But teenagers—they were prime for the picking.”
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/368-2001/letter-from/8252-ireland-spike-island-prison
America’s Incarceration Problem:
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/06/americas-incarceration-problem.html
New York Jail’s Prolonged COVID Visitation Ban Drives Big Profits on Detainee Calls:
https://theappeal.org/broome-county-jail-new-york-visitation-ban-profits/
Bail Reform Isn’t Leading To Increase In Crime, Despite Cops Saying Otherwise:
Another Drug Test Relied On By Law Enforcement Is Wrong Nearly 30 Percent Of The Time:
We Don’t Need More Evidence That Police Can’t Be Trusted. We Need Real Safety:
GOP Senate hopeful Herschel Walker falsely claimed to be in law enforcement:
Democrats distance themselves from 'defund the police' in TV ads:
Denver Deployed Mental Health Workers Instead of Police—and Some Crimes Went Down:
U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs opioid maker Insys founder's conviction appeal:
Harvard/Boston Univ. Study Black Cyclists Die 4.5x More Often Than White Cyclists:
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/06/14/study-black-cyclists-die-4-5x-more-often-than-white-riders/
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(22)00155-6/fulltext#seccesectitle0005
Privacy
Red Flagged Nation: Gun Confiscation Laws Put a Target on the Back of Every American
Deplatforming ANP And Independent Media And The Latest Big Tech Commie Censorship Games:
https://allnewspipeline.com/Deplatforming_ANP.php
Top FBI Agent "Violated Bureau Policy" By Having "Unauthorized Contacts" With Journalists, Accepting Free Tickets To Dinner Events:
https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21-OIG-274.pdf
Top 'Fact Checker' USA Today Forced To Delete 23 Articles Over Fabricated Sources:
https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/16/usa-today-ny-times-removes-articles-gabriela-miranda/
New Reuters Survey Finds That Trust In Mainstream News Is Rapidly Declining:
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2022/dnr-executive-summary
Biden adviser says Big Tech needs to “stop allowing specific individuals” to spread “disinformation”
https://reclaimthenet.org/gina-mccarthy-big-tech-needs-to-stop-disinformation/
YouTube Deletes Jan. 6 Committee Video for Including Trump’s False Election Claims:
Climate-Change Censorship: Phase Two
John Oliver on Big Tech: ‘Ending a monopoly is almost always a good thing’
How John Oliver helped take the issue of tech antitrust into the mainstream:
Big Tech Monopolies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
US Supreme Court rules private companies in international disputes cannot compel testimony:https://www.courthousenews.com/in-private-disputes-from-abroad-justices-rule-us-courts-can-not-force-testimony/
Judge Dismisses Bogus Defamation Lawsuit Against Foxconn Critic:
https://ij.org/press-release/judge-dismisses-bogus-defamation-lawsuit-against-foxconn-critic/
Russian botnet infected millions of devices worldwide:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2022-06-16/russian-botnet-san-diego-rsocks
24B usernames and passwords available for sale in cybercriminal marketplaces
14.9B users have had personal data breached since 2004:
https://surfshark.com/research/data-breach-monitoring
Data breach statistics by country in 2022:
https://surfshark.com/blog/data-breach-statistics-by-country
Data breach statistics by country in 2021:
https://surfshark.com/blog/data-breach-statistics-by-country-in-2021
An Indianapolis homicide fuels criticisms of digital tracking devices:
Americans' Private TikTok Data Accessed From China:
https://news.yahoo.com/tiktok-user-data-us-200500287.html
Chinese-made smart coffee machines could be spying on Americans:
https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/eye-opening-report-on-how-coffee-makers-could-spy-on-you
Controlling My Family’s Smart Home Is Driving Us Mad:
https://www.wired.com/story/family-smart-home-control-rant/
Sweeping Legislation Aims to Ban the Sale of Location Data:
What Do Transparency and Data Sharing Really Mean?
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-do-transparency-and-data-sharing-really-mean
NFT Marketers Warned: Make Sure You Observe Privacy Rules:
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4a948e7b-3d02-42df-8c99-8c72328224b0
Congress’ Crypto Reporting Rules Draw Constitutional Challenge:
Botched and silent patches from Microsoft put customers at risk:
A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys:
Firefox gets a privacy boost as Total Cookie Protection becomes the default for all users:
App tracking transparency investigation launched because Apple exempts its own apps:
https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/14/app-tracking-transparency-antitrust/
Apple and Google are coming for your car:
https://www.vox.com/recode/23166538/apple-google-amazon-cars
Judge upholds personal data lawsuit over Google selling users personal data:
Google Chrome extensions can be fingerprinted to track you online:
Are driverless car searches constitutional?
But anyone who practices in criminal defense knows that law enforcement regularly—and arguably intentionally—employs and relies on the most subjectively interpreted reasons for a traffic stop available. They do this because it creates a very challenging environment for a defendant and his counsel to challenge the constitutionality of the stop. Think about it: How do you prove that you weren’t lane straddling? How do you prove that you activated your signal when you switched lanes? How do you prove that you made a complete stop at an intersection?
https://www.abajournal.com/columns/article/are-driverless-car-searches-constitutional
New York State’s “Right to Repair” Law Could Have a Ripple Effect:
New York’s Vaccine Privacy Bill Heads to Governor’s Desk:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/victory-new-yorks-vaccine-privacy-bill-heads-governors-desk
Abortion rights advocates prepare for a new wave of digital security threats:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/17/abortion-rights-advocates-digital-security-threats-00040654
Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on Would-Be Patients:
Facebook Is Dodging Questions About Surveillance of Users Seeking Abortions:
https://gizmodo.com/facebook-abortion-surveillance-data-privacy-meta-1849066802
Online data, medical records could be used to put women in jail under new abortion laws:
The Impotence of the Fourth Amendment in a Post-Roe World:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/impotence-fourth-amendment-post-roe-world
Sen. Warren proposes sweeping ban on location and health data sales:
Anti-Cyberstalking Statute Must Be Read Narrowly to Keep It Constitutional–U.S. v. Yung:
Doctor check-in software harvests your health data:
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center data breach affected 1.3M people:
MCG Health data breach affected 1.1M people:
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/mcg-health-confirms-data-breach-leaking-5856436
Yuma Regional Medical Center data breach affected 700K people:
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/yuma-regional-medical-center-reports-8411271/
A hacked Kaiser Permanente employee’s emails led to breach of 70,000 patient records:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/14/hacked-email-kaiser-permanente-breach/
Choice Health Insurance data breach:
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/oversight-leads-to-data-breach-at-3910791/
Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine data breach:
https://www.ibj.com/articles/goodman-campbell-computer-network-attacked-by-hackers
90 Degree Benefits Wisconsin data breach:
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/90-degree-benefits-wisconsin-confirms-5277523/
Chesapeake Eye Center data breach:
https://www.cheseye.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ECL-Website-Notice-Final-Version-6.14.22.pdf
HHS Guidance on HIPAA and Audio-Only Telehealth:
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/hipaa-audio-telehealth/index.html
Sick and struggling to pay, 100 million people in the U.S. live with medical debt:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/16/1104679219/medical-bills-debt-investigation
FBI Launches Sextortion Awareness Campaign in Schools:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/stop-sextortion-youth-face-risk-online-090319
Design tricks commonly used to monetize young children's app usage:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2793493
FOIA Reform We Don’t Need: Blocking Foreigners From Using FOIA
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/06/15/foia-reform-we-dont-need-blocking-foreigners-from-using-foia/
How the State Chief Privacy Officer Role is Growing and Evolving:
https://www.nascio.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/NASCIO_PrivacyProgressing_2022_a.pdf
EFF Urges Congress to Strengthen the American Data Privacy and Protection Act:
Review of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act:
https://www.govtech.com/policy/a-review-the-american-data-privacy-and-protection-act
The Unanswered Questions About a National Privacy Bill:
https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/the-unanswered-questions-about-a-national-privacy-bill
Bipartisan privacy proposal is ‘unworkable and should be rejected,’ Chamber of Commerce says:
Big Tech Clashes with Brick and Mortar Group over Liability in Privacy Hearing:
Privacy isn’t in the Constitution – but it’s everywhere in constitutional law:
Local News
VT- Burlington ignores calls for police reform, decides to increase police budget:
"The $17 million proposed police budget would be a $1 million increase from the current budget, though it would carve out roughly the same 18% slice of the city’s overall budget."
VT- Bennington appoints members of town’s inaugural police advisory and review board:
VT- Advocacy groups kick off campaign supporting constitutional amendment to formally (FINALLY) abolish slavery in the state:
MA- A dozen Boston parking-enforcement officers under investigation for writing fake tickets to get off work:
MA- Medford cops often slept, avoided patrols during night shift:
MA- Amherst police mourns the loss of comfort dog Winston:
MA- State Senate passes bill banning prison, jail construction for 5 years:
NY- AOC decries NYPD police funding increases as proxy war with Eric Adams continues:
NY- FDNY seeks firewall to stop doxxing, hacking of rescue workers’ personal data:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/12/fdny-seeks-firewall-to-stop-doxxing-of-workers-personal-data/
NY- Niagara police spend close to $800K in pandemic relief money to purchase body cams:
"To date, the city has spent more than $9 million of the $57 million allocated to the Falls as part of the American Rescue Plan, with $48.1 million still earmarked toward specific needs in the city."
NY- Horace Mann Student Claims School Silences Dissent:
https://record.horacemann.org/8016/opinion/fear-risk-and-the-state-of-political-expression-at-hm/
PA- Temple University President sent an email to parents and students justifying hiring more police:
https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19723
TN- State justifies using license plate readers by creating the Caitlyn Kaufman law:
OH- Governor OKs Arming Teachers with Only 24 Hours of Training:
OH- First Amendment action filed against Columbus clerk over access blackout:
OH- Supreme Court Should Step in to Protect Student Free Speech:
https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/oberlin-student-speech-free-speech-censorship/
WI- Supreme Court Ruled Police Can Forcibly Take A Motorists Blood For Being Drunk In Your Driveway:
"The thing is, sitting in your car drunk in your driveway is not necessarily illegal, as Wisconsin’s OWI statute only criminalizes driving drunk on highways and other public roadways, which does not include private parking areas at farms or single-family residences. Valiant Green tried to suppress his blood test results in court on this basis, arguing the warrant leading to the test was issued without probable cause that he had committed a crime. The warrant was deficient, he said, because it did not say he operated his car on a public road, just in his driveway."
WI- Appeals Court Reinstates Lawsuit Over School Ban on T-Shirts That Depict Guns:
MI- State OK's digital license plates:
"After California in 2018 and Arizona in 2019, Michigan is the third state to give the all-clear to digital license plates. A California company called Reviver makes what it calls its RPlate and RPlate Pro for all three states, the firm saying 10 more states are in the process of approving the units."
https://www.autoblog.com/2022/06/13/michigan-legalizes-digital-license-plates/
IL- Trustees want ‘tightened’ policy before Flock Safety license-plate readers come to Winnetka:
IA- Supreme Court Finds State Constitution Doesn’t Protect Abortion Rights:
'Other States Will Soon Follow': Supreme Court Deals Blow to Abortion Rights
LA- NOLA to Hold Mayor Aides in Contempt Over Smart City Deal:
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/article_1804c380-e80a-11ec-83f9-23818cf592f1.html
KS- Law Enforcement Seized $21M From People, Most Of Whom Were Never Charged With Crimes:
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22052296/ks-forfeiture.pdf
NE- Kearney police to use Flock Safety license plate readers:
TX- The University of Houston paid $30k to settle free speech lawsuit:
https://campusreform.org/article?id=19700
TX- Southern Methodist University partnered with multiple local police departments for active shooter training on campus:
CO- State Privacy Act: The Cannabis Industry Prepares for Enforcement
AZ- State Prohibits Warrantless Police Access to Prescription Databases:
AZ- Supreme Court affirms constitutionality of anonymous juries:
CA- Longtime Bay Area sheriff criticized on jail conditions faces primary defeat:
CA- Santa Clara County to automate expungements for low-level convictions:
CA- US Supreme Court rules Federal Arbitration Act preempts state anti-arbitration law:
World News
The EU Is Outsourcing Border Control to So-Called “Safe Third Countries”
Border Violence Monitoring Network:
https://www.borderviolence.eu/
EU finishing its massive facial recognition/fingerprint scanning ring around Schengen:
"Perhaps most interesting for American observers is the rollout of EES, an ambitious biometric information collection program that will not only capture digitized fingerprints and facial images on all incoming foreign visitors, but also collect these data at departure at all Schengen air and seaports and even at external land-crossing points."
Skyports to use Sita facial recognition at vertiport locations throughout Europe:
Pixta offering pictures of Japanese citizens wearing masks to facial recognition companies (NEC):
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14634314
HID Global e-Book wants retail stores across the globe to use facial recognition:
WHO wants a new pandemic treaty?
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/who-wants-a-new-pandemic-treaty/
Children’s Rights Violations by Governments that Endorsed Online Learning During the Covid-19 Pandemic:
Genocide by Attrition: History of Personal ID's (Digital ID's) and Genocide
Privacy International’s submission for the UN report on the right to privacy in the digital age:
Google, Twitter, Meta, TikTok and more just signed the EU’s “anti-disinformation” code:
https://reclaimthenet.org/big-tech-eu-disinformation-code/
EU law requires Big Tech to do more to combat child sexual abuse, but a key question remains: How?
EU laws requiring Big Tech to scan for child abuse content are technologically unfeasible:
EU consumer and data protection authorities five principles of fairness for advertising toward children:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/default/files/5_key_principles_9_june_2022.pdf
Amazon offers to share data, boost rivals to dodge EU antitrust fines:
Big Tech cries foul over EU cloud-security label:
https://www.politico.eu/article/tech-sector-foul-eu-cloud-security-label/
EU privacy chief bashes lack of GDPR enforcement against Big Tech:
'A Chilling Message to Journalists the World Over': UK Approves Assange Extradition to US
All People Who Believe in Press Freedoms Must Condemn the Extradition of Julian Assange:
Russia- Government uses facial recognition to arrest dozens of people:
Russia- Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Disappeared
https://www.politico.eu/article/spokesperson-say-navalny-transferred-unknown-location/
Russia- Government fined Google $260,000 for breaching data localization rules:
Germany- Apple’s privacy rules targeted by competition watchdog:
https://www.politico.eu/article/apples-privacy-rules-targeted-by-german-competition-watchdog/
France- Marseille’s battle against the surveillance state:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/13/1053650/marseille-fight-surveillance-state/
France- Data Protection Authority study on apps using geolocation data:
UK- Top official orders Julian Assange’s extradition to U.S.
UK- BS Warning: Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner wants Parliament to remove Hikivision Facial Recognition Cameras
UK- Flight Taking Illegal Immigrants To Rwanda Halted By European Court Of Human Rights:
Government Vows to Send Illegal Immigrants to Rwanda Despite Legal Battles:
UK- Met police forced to apologize after smashing car window of man who accused officers of racial profiling:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ryan-colaco-stop-and-search-police-b2099720.html
UK- Ex-Cop Jailed For 20 Weeks After Posting Racist Memes Mocking George Floyd's Death:
UK- Complaints Regarding Police Conduct are Ignored by IOPC and Metropolitan Police Federation:
https://expose-news.com/2022/06/15/complaints-about-police-conduct-are-ignored-by-iopc/
UK- Department of Health and Social Care press release: New data strategy to drive innovation and improve efficiency
UK- Information Commissioner’s Office becomes a for-profit by retaining fine income:
SCT- Former Police Chief convinces Parliament to accept facial recognition data code of practice:
"Dr Brian Plastow, the first biometric data commissioner for Scotland and former police chief superintendent, brought forward a draft ‘code of practice’ on police-held biometric data to the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday."
IRL- Use of spit and bite guards to be made permanent in Northern Ireland policing:
China- Hikvision Cameras Used to Catch Uyghurs Featured in Xinjiang Police Files:
https://s.ipvm.com/uploads/7591/6164/Hikvision%20IPVM%20White%20Paper-2-3.pdf
https://www.axios.com/2022/06/14/report-hikvision-cameras-xinjiang-police-uyghurs
China- Bank protest stopped by government turning health codes to red:
Tens of billions of bank deposits "disappeared", where did the money go?
https://www.lifeweek.com.cn/article/165298
China- Officials Are Weaponizing COVID Health Tracker to Block Protests:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a53v/china-covid-health-code-protest-henan
China- Government Issues Draft Guidelines on Certification of Personal Information Cross-Border Transfer Activities:
Taiwan- CyberLink Releases FaceMe TimeClock and Smart Facial Recognition for Retail:
https://www.cyberlink.com/eng/press_room/view_4850.html
Japan- Government passes bill to make online insults punishable by jail time:
Philippines- Senate bill on digital payments:
http://legacy.senate.gov.ph/lisdata/3765034101!.pdf
India- Cops Worked With Hackers Who Planted Evidence on Arrested Activists' Computers:
https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-planted-evidence-hacking-police/
India- Why Did the Government Demolish This Prominent Activist’s Home?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axgjj/india-muslim-activist-afreen-fatima-bulldozer-politics
India- Facial Recognition GrainATM vending machine wins WFP innovation award:
India- Facial Recognition Is Out Of Control:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akew98/facial-recognition-is-out-of-control-in-india
India- VPN firms are removing servers in to avoid customers data sharing rule:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/14/vpn-firms-are-removing-servers-in-india-ahead-of-new-rules/
Pakistan- Government installs IBM facial recognition ID gates at Afghanistan border:
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40177211/nadra-asked-to-install-ibms-at-torkham-border
Israel- Police investigation clear officers at reporter’s funeral
https://news.yahoo.com/report-israeli-police-clear-officers-175026504.html
Israel- US Asks Government to Dial Back Oppression of Palestinians—But Just During Biden's Visit:
Israel- Banking systems allowed to use cloud computing services:
https://www.boi.org.il/en/NewsAndPublications/PressReleases/Pages/13-06-2022.aspx
Africa- University of Johannesburg using facial recognition proctoring app to ID students:
Africa- The United Nations Development Program is helping Mauritania create a national digital ID program:
https://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=92362
TECH5’s Facial Recognition to Be Used for Digital ID's in South Africa:
AU- Border force searched more than 40,000 mobile devices in five years:
AU- Government abused pandemic tracking to monitor citizens:
AU- Bunnings, Kmart and The Good Guys claimed they use facial recognition technology to crack down on theft:
AU- Government's secret propaganda unit:
https://declassifieduk.org/revealed-australias-secret-propaganda-unit/
NZ- ACC review finds privacy policies outdated, poorly understood by staff:
Canada- Indigenous sisters hope for exoneration after almost 30 years in prison system:
"Last year, the Office of the Correctional Investigator noted that Indigenous women make up 50 per cent of women in federal prisons, a percentage that has been rising, when Indigenous women make up about five per cent of Canadian women."
Canada- Toronto Police Admit They Are More Likely to Pull Guns on Black People:
https://www.complex.com/life/toronto-police-report-2022-use-of-force
Canada- How B.C. police can benefit from seizing personal belongings:
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/how-police-profit-from-administrative-forfeiture
Canada- Facial recognition research and partnership could have significant impact on future of policing:
Canada- Predictive Policing Tech Is Poorly Regulated Under AI Policy:
https://truthout.org/articles/canadas-predictive-policing-tech-is-poorly-regulated-under-ai-policy/
Canada- IdentityNORTH Summit says pandemic has spurred need for digital ID's:
https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/identitynorth-summit-fortier-says-pandemic-has-spurred-need-for-digital-credential-initiative/488477The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee tells U.S. officials that digital ID's stop fraud:https://fcw.com/digital-government/2022/06/pandemic-response-watchdogs-urge-agencies-focus-id-theft/368228/
Canada- She confided in a doctor about her depression. The next thing she knew, the government took away her driver’s license:
Canada- Student Environmental Activist Fears Government Seeks to Deport Him:
Trinidad & Tobago- iProov and Ignition-Innovation work together to create national digital ID program:
https://apnews.com/press-release/business-wire/technology-politics-trinidad-and-tobago-port-of-spain-4a9032ec73fc4ca59aacf0fdda8aa97c
Brazil- The public needs racial justice, not facial recognition:
https://diplomatique.org.br/favelas-precisam-de-justica-racial-nao-de-reconhecimento-facial/