As they prepare to make their second attempt at sending a border-based humanitarian volunteer to prison, federal prosecutors in Arizona are worried that the politics behind the policies they enforce might creep into the courtroom. In a late-stage motion, government… Read More ›
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Amnesty International Condemns U.S. Attacks on Border Journalists and Human Rights Defenders
The shape of the Trump administration’s approach to policing immigration is at this point familiar. Since January 2017, federal agents and officers have been under orders to enforce a harsh interpretation of immigration laws without restraint. The result has most infamously manifested… Read More ›
Amazon Pullout Shows What Anti-Capitalist Organizing and Leftist Politicians Can Do
People opposed to Amazon’s plan to locate a headquarters in New York City hold a protest in Court House Square on Nov. 26, 2018 in the Long Island City neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. Photo: Stephanie… Read More ›
Thomson Reuters Defends Its Work for ICE, Providing “Identification and Location of Aliens”
The reporters at Reuters have been providing crucial, unfliching coverage of the cruel treatment of would-be immigrants under policies pushed by President Donald Trump. Meanwhile, the news agency’s parent company, Thomson Reuters, has been supplying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with data from… Read More ›
DNA Testing Might Help Reunite Families Separated by Trump. But It Could Create a Privacy Nightmare.
In the face of the Trump administration’s neglect and indifference toward the reunification of the thousands of immigrant families it has forcibly separated, some lawmakers, activists, and celebrities have called for the use of DNA testing, along with other biometrics,… Read More ›
After “Dark Times” in Pretrial Detention, Reality Winner Sought Closure in Plea Deal
Reality Leigh Winner pleaded guilty to retaining and transmitting a document to an online news organization after reaching a deal with the government to serve a five-year prison sentence, compared to the 10 years she faced when she was indicted… Read More ›
Whistleblower Reality Winner, Charged Under the Espionage Act for Helping to Inform Public of Russian Election Meddling, Pleads Guilty
Whistleblower Reality Winner entered into a plea deal with the Justice Department on Tuesday, ostensibly putting an end to her case that has seen her held in jail for over a year without trial. Her indictment was the Trump administration’s… Read More ›
Interpol Rolls Out International Voice Identification Database Using Samples From 192 Law Enforcement Agencies
Last week, Interpol held a final project review of its speaker identification system, a four-year, 10 million euro project that has recently come to completion. The Speaker Identification Integrated Project, what they call SiiP, marks a major development in the international… Read More ›
The FBI Is Using Unvetted, Right-Wing Blacklists to Question Activists About Their Support for Palestine
Ahmad Aburas was sitting in class one evening in September 2016 when a security officer at Seton Hall Law School, the New Jersey school that Aburas attends, came to get him. Gerald Lenihan, the school’s security manager, said he needed… Read More ›
Can #MeToo Change the Toxic Culture of Sexism and Harassment at Cybersecurity Conferences?
Camille Tuutti can’t remember all the times she’s been harassed. A prominent information technology journalist and editor, Tuutti feels that her friendly and outgoing personality — a necessity in her line of work — has often been misinterpreted by men in… Read More ›