40+ Rights Groups Urge Biden to Halt Federal Use of “Dangerous” Facial Recognition Technology
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of more than 40 advocacy groups is calling on President Joe Biden to take executive action imposing a moratorium on…
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“Crucial” New Project Exposes How Far-Reaching US War on Drugs “Has Contaminated Six Critical Systems”
By Jessica Corbett “It’s time to uproot the drug war from our lives.” So says a new Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) project exposing how the…
Amnesty Calls on Biden to Close Guantánamo and End Military Commissions “Once and For All”
By Jessica Corbett After U.S. military prosecutors filed formal charges against three longtime prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay offshore prison for nearly 15 years without…
ACLU Sues to Find Out How and Why Federal Agencies Are Accessing Americans’ Cell Phone Location Data
By Jessica Corbett After a series of news reports that have alarmed civil liberties advocates and progressive lawmakers, the ACLU sued on Wednesday to find…
40 Groups Demand Congress Probe “Gross Misuse” of $1 Billion in Covid-19 Funding by Pentagon
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of 40 ideologically diverse organizations on Thursday demanded that federal lawmakers investigate allegations from earlier this week that the Pentagon…
“Monstrous”: Canadian Police Prepared to Shoot Indigenous Land Defenders, Documents Show
By Jessica Corbett In an exclusive report Friday that outraged human rights advocates worldwide, The Guardian revealed that Canadian police wanted snipers on standby for a January 2019 crackdown on…
This Story on Smartphone Tracking is the “Most Important Article You Should Read Today. Period.”
By Jessica Corbett The New York Times on Thursday sparked calls for congressional action by publishing the first article in its “One Nation, Tracked” series,…
Activist Facing Prison for Giving Water to Migrants in Desert Found Not Guilty on All Charges
By Jake Johnson and Jessica Corbett An Arizona jury on Wednesday found human rights activist Scott Warren not guilty of “harboring” undocumented migrants, charges that…
The So-Called War on Terror Has Killed Over 801,000 People and Cost $6.4 Trillion
By Jessica Corbett The so-called War on Terror launched by the United States government in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks has cost…
Ecuador’s President Moves Government Operations From Capital to Escape Protests
By Jessica Corbett Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno announced late Monday that he had temporarily moved government operations out of the capital of Quito following days…
Amazon’s Facial Recognition Technology Can Now Detect Fear in People: Claim
By Jessica Corbett Privacy advocates are responding with alarm to Amazon’s claim this week that the controversial cloud-based facial recognition system the company markets to law enforcement…
Majorities of Both US Veterans and Public Believe Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan “Not Worth Fighting”
By Jessica Corbett The majority of American veterans and members of the general public agreed in two new surveys that the U.S. wars in Iraq…
Venezuela Denounces US Seizure of Embassy as Violation of Vienna Convention
By Jessica Corbett (CD) — Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Ron on Thursday urged the Trump administration not to hand over the country’s embassy in Washington, D.C….
“Alexa, Stop Spying on My Kids”: Amazon’s Echo Dot Violates Child Privacy Law
By Jessica Corbett A coalition of consumer and public health groups demanded Thursday that federal regulators investigate and sanction Amazon for its Echo Dot Kids…