“Federal agencies seized over $5 billion in 2014, which was more than the amount of property burglarized that same year, $3.9 billion.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/keeping-cops-hands-out-of-your-pockets/
“In his last decision before being nominated by President Trump to serve on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh ruled in favor of the CIA.”
Read more: http://jfkfacts.org/judge-karen-henderson-dissents-from-brett-kavanaughs-decision-favoring-cia/
“What Rehnquist saw as one of his biggest achievements, Kavanaugh noted, was freeing law enforcement from the annoying restrictions placed on it in the 1960s and ’70s. And Kavanaugh was there to second the motion.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/16/brett-kavanaughs-soft-spot-for-police-ab
“Pennsylvania State Police killed a man with a bulldozer over a 10-plant marijuana grow ‘operation’ on state lands in Berks County.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/16/police-run-over-kill-man-with-bulldozer
“In turning to greater use of emigration controls, the US is embracing ever greater control of its domestic population and its resources. Such oversight of US citizens, however, was almost completely unknown in the nineteenth century.”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/you-now-cant-leave-us-unless-irs-lets-you
“According to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, TSA officials have sovereign immunity while working in their official functions as screeners and security agents under the Federal Tort Claims Act.”
“RDP administrators have been slow to adopt techniques like two-factor authentication and rate-limiting, which could prevent attacks like this one.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/11/17559510/airport-security-login-rdp-attack-dark-web
“The hacker told Recorded Future that he frequently ‘entertains’ himself by watching live streams of sensitive footage from airplanes and border surveillance cameras.”
“Following backlash over officials pocketing thousands of dollars in excess funds for their own personal use, Ivey withdrew the policy of ‘paying prisoner food service allowances directly to sheriffs in their personal capacities’ in a memo to the state comptroller, The Associated Press reported.”
“The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/