1+ hour, 42+ min ago (766+ words) Concerned that residents" locations and schedules could be obtained by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, state lawmakers passed a bill this month to prevent public agencies from sharing such personal information. The bill prohibits state and municipal agencies, including schools, from sharing an individual"s address, hours of work, public agency appointments or "any other information that provides the date, time or place where such individual may be located." Scott Gaul, the state"s chief data officer, said he will be working with agencies on procedures that protect the outlined information and how to handle requests for data. "The underlying intent of the legislation is to make sure people can trust in government and feel that they can interact with state agencies and the benefits that they"re entitled to," said Gaul. Since March, the Trump administration has required…...

3+ hour, 30+ min ago (492+ words) National 120,000 private cameras hacked, used to record sexual content Published : Nov. 30, 2025 - 17:39:10 Four individuals are under investigation for allegedly hacking around 120,000 internet protocol cameras installed at homes and businesses across the country, with the suspects accused of using them to record sexual content. Two of the suspects each hacked into 63,000 and 70,000 IP cameras, recording hundreds of sexual videos, which they sold to operators of websites based outside of the country. One made 35 million won ($23,800) while the other made 18 million won in the process, according to the National Office of Investigation under the National Police Agency. The two other suspects hacked into 15,000 and 136 IP cameras, respectively, and possessed videos from the camera feeds but had not distributed the illegal images. The four suspects committed the crimes separately, and three of them have been detained for investigation. A total of 58 places have been…...

13+ hour, 10+ min ago (1388+ words) Sunday, 30 Nov 2025 A test of democracy: We need to clearly define where privacy rights end and the public's right to information begins in order to have a truly effective FOI law. " 123rf WHEN Wathshlah Naidu talks about the fight for a federal-level Freedom of Information (FOI) Act in Malaysia, she describes it as a marathon. "It feels like we've run several loops of marathon since 2008 to get here," says the executive director for the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ). Fortunately, she adds, "We can almost see the end of the marathon." This is because recently, the Madani government assured that the FOI Bill will be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat sometime next year after more fine-tuning and engagement with stakeholders. But now that we're so close to the end, Wathshlah says the question now isn't only when the law will be…...

1+ day, 15+ min ago (118+ words) Norfolk, VA secretly installed over 600 Flock license'plate surveillance cameras enabling mass tracking of innocent Americans without warrants'until a federal judge ordered the locations released, ruling the system may violate the Fourth... Norfolk Caught Running MASS Warrantless Surveillance NetworkNorfolk, VA secretly installed over 600 Flock license'plate surveillance cameras enabling mass tracking of innocent Americans without warrants'until a federal judge ordered the locations released, ruling the system may violate the Fourth Amendment The lawsuit demands Norfolk erase its collected data, exposing a sweeping privacy threat involving nationwide data'sharing, zero transparency, and systems vulnerable to hacking and federal abuse Another example of government overreach eroding freedom while pretending it's "public safety.Join@SGTnewsNetwork Twitter " Truth Social...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago (426+ words) Cameras, Cameras Everywhere " No Private Moment Safe Condor uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide communities with live and recorded video to help deter and solve crime equitably and effectively.[2] Why is Flock Safety named "Flock? According to Flock's own marketing and explanations (e.g., on their site and in interviews), they describe building a "public-private safety network that unites communities "like a flock to deter and solve crime. The name draws from the metaphor of aflock of birds(or sheep) that protect each other collectively by staying together and watching out for threats: If Palantir wanted truth in advertising they'd call it "All-Seeing Eye " but "Flock sounds so much cuddlier while it herds the sheep.Flock is adorable until you realize the birds aren't watching for hawks. They're watching you. Larry Ellison, another billionaire tech oligarch working with President…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago (951+ words) Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old college student at Babson College, was detained by ICE while trying to make a surprise trip to see her family in Austin. Within about 48 hours of her arrest, the agency deported her to Honduras. Francis thought the phone call was an extortion at first" or, at the least, a sick prank. But as his daughter's crying voice on the other side of the line continued, Francis realized it was all much worse. On the morning of Nov. 20, Francis' 19-year-old daughter and Boston-area college student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza set off to surprise her Austin-based parents with a trip home from college for Thanksgiving. But at the Boston airport, federal immigration agents arrested her, telling the surprised college freshman she had a deportation order. It was all confusing to Francis, too. "In reality, we didn't…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago (302+ words) Eugene Volokh | 11.28.2025 6:07 PM From the Joint Pre-Trial Memorandum in McQuade v. UMass Memorial Health Care, Inc., the plaintiff's position: The abhorrent slander became widespread throughout UMass Memorial. Because Andrews was in the float pool, the defamation was easily spread as she "floated" from unit-to-unit slandering Mr. McQuade. The rampant defamation became so widespread that Ms. Champagne, took a huge professional risk and decided she needed to go to HR. Accordingly, Ms. Hiza met with Ms. Champagne and Mr. Spezzaferro on the afternoon of November 19, 2020. Ms. Hiza took contemporaneous notes of the meeting, as part of the regular course of her job, that stated, in pertinent part, the following: [Andrews] said fuck him'he took my job'he's big and scary He's [Mr. McQuade] lazy a hard piece of shit He's [Mr. McQuade] abusive and knows how to use guns DSS [DCF] case'abusive daughter'he's…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago (160+ words) The keynote address from the "Gitlow v. New York at 100" symposium, held this year at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; other papers from that symposium will be published here in the coming weeks. Eugene Volokh | 11.28.2025 2:00 PM The article is here; here's the Introduction: The centennial of Gitlow v. New York is upon us. Gitlow is typically praised as an essential step in the development of modern First Amendment doctrine, so that it is said that "[f]ew individual stars shine as brightly in the constellation of American civil liberties cases." Yet, closely examined, Gitlow seems a puzzling choice for constitutional canonization. NEXT: Today in Supreme Court History: November 28, 1872 Eric Boehm | 11.28.2025 7:45 AM Steven Greenhut | 11.28.2025 7:30 AM Jack Nicastro | 11.28.2025 7:00 AM Peter Suderman | From the December 2025 issue Charles Oliver | 11.28.2025 4:00 AM...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago (467+ words) A Babson College student wanted to surprise her parents on Thanksgiving by flying out to Texas to meet them. Instead, she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca, 19, was at Logan Airport on Nov. 20 when she was informed for the first time that she had a removal order from immigration authorities, according to her lawyer, Todd Pomerlau. At 4 p.m., she called her family and told them she was being held at the ICE field office in Burlington. As of Wednesday, she is currently in Honduras. "When she got to the airport to board her flight, she was asked to step aside by federal agencies because they alleged that she had a final order of removal," said Nayna Gupta, a member of the American Immigration Council. "These are folks who may have received removal notices when they were…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago (467+ words) A Babson College student wanted to surprise her parents on Thanksgiving by flying out to Texas to meet them. Instead, she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Any Lucia Lopez Belloca, 19, was at Logan Airport on Nov. 20 when she was informed for the first time that she had a removal order from immigration authorities, according to her lawyer, Todd Pomerlau. At 4 p.m., she called her family and told them she was being held at the ICE field office in Burlington. As of Wednesday, she is currently in Honduras. "When she got to the airport to board her flight, she was asked to step aside by federal agencies because they alleged that she had a final order of removal," said Nayna Gupta, a member of the American Immigration Council. "These are folks who may have received removal notices when they were…...