by Scott Cosenza | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog
“A New York judge ruled Tuesday that Facebook has no legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of search warrants served on its users, highlighting the limits to online companies’ abilities to protect user privacy. Last year, Facebook appealed a court decision...
by Scott Cosenza | Jul 21, 2015 | Blog
Privacy advocates say Seattle is violating residents’ privacy “on a massive scale” by having garbage haulers look through people’s trash to make sure food scraps are going into the yard waste. We learn from the Seattle Times that some residents aren’t as fond of...
by Scott Cosenza | Jul 21, 2015 | Blog
We learned last week that “New York City reached a settlement with the family of Eric Garner on Monday, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to resolve a wrongful-death claim over his killing by the police on Staten Island last July, the city comptroller and a lawyer for the...
by Scott Cosenza | Jul 16, 2015 | Blog
After the May 17 Waco shootings, the authorities there have seemingly gone out of their way to abuse and molest anyone and everyone within shouting distance of the melee. They charged dozens with capital crimes, attempted to conceal evidence, and trampled the rights...
by Scott Cosenza | Jul 10, 2015 | Blog
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian finalized a preliminary ruling today ordering Aaron and Melissa Klein, the bakers who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, to pay $135,000 in emotional damages to the couple they denied service. “This case is not about...
by Scott Cosenza | Jul 9, 2015 | Blog
“Tom Wolf vetoed a bill that would have privatized the sale of wine and liquor while liberalizing the rules for selling beer in the Keystone State. Wolf counterintuitively argues that replacing the state monopoly with private businesses would be bad for consumers....
