Closing a critical loophole cops use to enlist your car to help them snoop on your phone
Law enforcement is always looking for a way around that pesky Fourth Amendment, and its requirement that if cops want to conduct a search of your person or effects –…
How inflation moves goes from bad to worse: car insurance edition
We’ve all felt inflation bite into our earnings and there’s little indication it will stop in the near term. If anything price hikes are going to accelerate in some areas….
The IRS and facial recognition…a bad idea that finally got scrapped
The Internal Revenue Service has a long and problematic history of keeping your personal information safe and secure from hackers, leakers, and assorted mischief makers. Which made the agency’s mandate…
The IRS is very, very bad at protecting your personal data
Giving the IRS more power to extract taxes from a host of people, companies, and assorted financial entities has been a long-held dream of many politicians. In their mind, mountains…
Government buying a shortcut around the Fourth Amendment
It’s no secret the federal government would prefer not to have to deal with that pesky Fourth Amendment, which requires the feds to get warrants before they can go poking…
Proof that politicians don’t set foot in grocery stores
In another example of bipartisanship proving itself to be a window into the economic illiteracy, Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley are pushing legislation to ban companies like Amazon and…
Governments and law enforcement using online data to beef up surveillance
Law enforcement and government intelligence agencies are big fans of using private sector data to conduct their operations. When such practices have run into constitutional and political barriers, agencies say…
The online privacy charade
Most folks understand that advertisers are eager to track their behavior online. And they would do so to the greatest degree technology allows except, we’ve been told, most of our…
