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Obama Says James Clapper 'Should Have Been More Careful' In How He Lied To...

Many of us are still quite disappointed that James Clapper has kept his job as Director of National Intelligence after flat out lying to Congress over whether or not the NSA spied on Americans. There...

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Kansas Legislative Committee Pushes Bill That Would Make It A Felony To File...

How can you tell if an introduced bill is a bad piece of legislation? Well, there are several indicators to look for — overly broad language, written as a reaction to a recent tragedy — but when a...

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Epiphany: Rep. John Conyers Realizes Mid-Hearing That His Copyright Position...

It’s hard to imagine looking at the absurdly excessive copyright penalties on the books and thinking, “Hey, maybe these should be a bit higher.” But Congress has shown itself to be exceedingly...

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White House Admits That It Still Supports Parts Of SOPA: Wants To Make...

Last week, we wrote that Senator (and still for the next few weeks, Majority Leader) Harry Reid was looking for ways to push for a piece of SOPA, making streaming a felony, into law. The story we’d...

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If The DOJ Gets Its Way, Tweeting Out A List Of The 'Worst Passwords On The...

Retweet if you want to go to jail! And not regular county jail, but federal prison! Under the DOJ's CFAA proposal, this article (and this tweet linking to it) could be a 10 year felony. That's insane....

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More Power For Bad Cops: NYPD Head Supports Raising 'Resisting Arrest' To A...

Here’s a horrifying statement: Asked whether the penalty for resisting arrest should be increased from a misdemeanor to a felony, [NYPD Commissioner Bill] Bratton said he supported the idea. “We need...

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South Carolina Says It's A Felony For Prisoners To Look At Facebook; Sends...

Dave Maass, over at EFF, has an absolutely insane story about how the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) added a special new level 1 felony charge (for reference: murder, rape, rioting and...

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Congressional Rep Who Introduced Anti-Swatting Bill… Victim Of Attempted...

Back in November, Congresswoman Katherine Clark introduced an anti-swatting bill. As you probably already know, swatting is when someone calls in a fake report to police about an ongoing incident at...

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Risky Click: Adding Undercover Cop As Friend Nets Man Conviction For Gun Charges

Keep your friends close, but your Facebook friends closer. – a multitude of criminal defendants probably Here’s the thing about public profiles on social media services: they’re public. If you don’t...

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Senators Leahy And Tillis — Both Strongly Supported By Hollywood — Ask...

As you’ll likely recall, at the very end of last year, Senator Thom Tillis, the head of the intellectual property subcommittee in the Senate, slipped a felony streaming bill into the grand funding...

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