President-elect Donald Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway is trying to walk back more rumors that the new administration will seek to implement a “religious” registry of Muslims, even as the Department of Homeland security rolled...
This week marks 10 years since Mexico’s former president Felipe Calderon militarized the so-called war on drugs by first deploying troops to carry out law enforcement duties in his home state. Since then tens...
Police accountability and systemic racism are front and center again this week with at least three black males killed by police in the last seven days; most recently in Charlotte, North Carolina. This comes...
The U.S. Department of Justice has proposed a new rule that would exempt the FBI Next Generation Identification system — purportedly the world’s largest biometric database — from key provisions of the Privacy Act....
The U.S. Senate passed the so-called Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act – or CISA – Tuesday evening by a wide 74-21 margin. The overwhelming Senate support for the bill gave little indication that concerns from...
In the ramped-up secrecy of post-9/11 America, many of the more controversial revelations about U.S. national security and intelligence agencies have come to light via whistleblowers: conscientious objectors within government agencies. While Edward Snowden...
During the coming weeks, FSRN will feature a series of reports on the intersections of technology policy, digital privacy, press freedom and democracy. As a preview, we’re publishing the entirety of a extended Q&A...
Europe’s highest court struck down the underpinning of a long standing agreement allowing corporations in Europe to freely transfer their customers and clients’ personal data to servers based in the United States. The ruling...
A library in a small New Hamsphire town has pushed back against an effort to shut down a program in which libraries help to ensure online anonymity. In July, the Kilton Public Library in...
Indigenous police commander Nestora Salgado transferred from Mexican max-security prison after 24-day hunger strike Paris police announce they will clear camp where 100s of migrants languish Senate to return early from Memorial Day recess...
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