Category Archives: Legal

Flock Camera Vulnerability: It’s Worse Than You Think

More on why Flock surveillance cameras are insecure and unreliable. Pass the information on to local officials.

Nation’s Largest Landlord Is Encouraged to Break the Law With Measly Fine for Price Fixing Scheme That Kept Rents Artificially High and Worsened Homelessness Crisis

Greystar is penalized 0.002 percent of the $300 billion worth of real estate it manages, and must stop using collusion software—maybe.

“Mayday: The White House Is Attempting to Circumvent Congress and Crush the Rights of Individual States to Regulate AI”

AI overlords seek to be better able to loot than banks: too big to fail yet unregulated. Call your Congresscritters to stop that.

As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles

Community groups and ICE protestors have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks to help neighbors sound the alarm.

Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings

Time to cheer a legal win against the surveillance state, here the use of massive spycams by a vendor called Flock.

‘An Indictment of the Trade Union Movement’: Why No One is Organising Seasonal Workers

Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership

Trump Looks Likely to Lose at Supreme Court on Challenge to His Assertion of Emergency Tariff Authority. How Much Damage Would That Do to His Pretenses of Power?

The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the Trump Administration’s advantage. What happens if it loses at the Supreme Court?

Rage Against the ICE Machine

Anti-ICE protestors are showing signs of developing effective strategies and tactics.

‘We’re Not Going to Forget’: Pritzker Warns Trump Enforcers Miller, Homan, Bovino That Immunity Not Forever

Governor Pritzker has gotten out of bed to threaten Team Trump over ICE abuses. But this still amounts to a wet noodle lashing.