2026-03-02
The Department of Defense is buying up our data and seeking to use powerful AI systems to amass information about our private lives without a warrant. — That's the definition of Big Brother surveillance, and it's unconstitutional.
The Atlantic
A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans
Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
The Department of Defense is buying up our data and seeking to use powerful AI systems to amass information about our private lives without a warrant. — That's the definition of Big Brother surveillance, and it's unconstitutional.
The Verge
Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data
On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …
2025-01-23
BREAKING: A district court ruled that the FBI's use of Section 702 to conduct warrantless searches of a person's digital communications violates the Fourth Amendment. — This is a victory for our right to privacy from government spying.
Cato Institute
A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment
but nonetheless, today's decision that Section 702 data cannot be used to spy on US persons without a warrant was hard-fought and actually a pretty big deal. — www.eff.org/deepli...
2025-01-11
As we told the Supreme Court in our recent amicus brief: Banning TikTok is unprecedented, unnecessary, and unconstitutional.
Bloomberg
SCOTUS signals it is likely to uphold the TikTok divest-or-ban law, as a majority of justices suggested they see national security overriding free speech issues
TikTok went before the Supreme Court on Friday for one last attempt to put an end to the impending ban. Stephen Schenck / Android Authority : It may be time to start accepting that...