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JUNE 2, 2024

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Get Up, Stand Up, Don’t Give Up the Fight: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them 

From COVID-19 to Campus Protests: How the Police State Muzzles Free Speech 

10 Things College Graduates Can Do in the Face of a New Age of Fear

A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws and Too Little Freedom  

Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms 

The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Victory: Rutherford Institute Protects Valedictorian’s First Amendment Right to Talk About God in Graduation Speech Without Being Censored 

Relying on Red Tape and Technicalities, Police Use Asset Forfeiture to Keep Thousands of Dollars in Cash From Innocent Owners 

SCOTUS Fails to Protect Citizens From Asset Forfeiture Delay Tactics That Let Police Keep Seized Cars & Cash

Michigan Supreme Court Allows Government to Conduct Warrantless Drone Surveillance of Excess ‘Junk’ Cars on Couple’s Secluded Property 

U.S. Supreme Court Allows Case to Move Forward That Could Dissuade and Chill the Right to Organize Peaceful Political Mass Protests 
 

LEGAL FEATURES

Constitutional Q&A: American Community Survey 

Special Report: The Right to Be Let Alone: How to Safeguard Your Freedoms in the Face of the Government’s COVID-19 Power Grabs 

The Case Against Technofascism: When Big Tech Companies Censor Speech 
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IN THE COURTS

Trump Becomes First Former US President Convicted of Felony Crimes

The NRA's Unanimous Supreme Court Victory Is Good for Free Speech—No Matter How You Feel About Guns 

DC Transit Authority Ban on Controversial Ads Found to Violate First Amendment 

Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Women Who Alleged State Abortion Ban Put Their Health at Risk 

Does Religious Freedom Give You a Right to Have Dreads? 

Florida Supreme Court Rules Law Enforcement Can Force Drivers Out of Their Car for Drug Sweep

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

Freedom Under Fire is a free weekly podcast available on SoundCloud and iTunes.

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Four Years Later, We’re Still Failing 

We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President 

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex   

Podcast Archive

ON TARGET VODCAST, INTERVIEWS

How to Stand Up for Freedom (Interview with Collapse Life)  

Counting the People (Interview with Financial Rebellion, CHD) 

Are You Being Watched? (Whitehead Interview with Good Morning, CHD) 

The Rise of the Security Industrial Complex: One America News  

JUSTICE SYSTEM

A Legal Doctrine That Shields Police From Many Lawsuits May Be Losing Support

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Four Years After George Floyd Killing, Police Reform Slow to Follow 

Drones Set to Replace First Responders in Denver Police Force 

New Louisiana Law Will Make It Harder for Bystanders to Film Police Misconduct

BEHIND BARS

How Much Each State Spends on Prisons
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NATIONAL SECURITY

Secret Service Deleted Texts From Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, After Watchdog Sought Records 

Biden Administration Tries to Plug Loophole That Released Migrant Linked to Terrorism Into the U.S.

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

What Philadelphians Need to Know About the City’s 7,000-Camera Surveillance System 

San Francisco Should Stop Sharing the Ankle Monitor Data of Suspects on Pretrial Release 

The U.S. Finally Passes An Internet Privacy Law… For Rich Jet Owners 

Watch Out for the Doorman. Technology and Neighbourhood Surveillance 

Privacy International Warns That Biometrics at Sports Stadiums Infringe on Human Rights 

How Israel Is Using Facial Recognition in Gaza 

We’re Nearing a Point of No Return on Data Privacy 

CBP, ICE Sued for Information About Sharing of Noncitizens’ Biometrics

FREE SPEECH / CENSORSHIP

How Campus Protests Flip-Flopped America’s Free Speech Debate 

For Protest-Minded Workers, Employment Law and Free Speech Are Not Clearly on Your Side

TECHNOLOGY

Experts Seeing ‘More and More’ Hate Content Created by Artificial Intelligence 

‘I Was Misidentified as Shoplifter by Facial Recognition Tech’ 

What Is the Internet of Bodies? 

DHS Sets Its Research Sights on 8 Emerging Technologies  

China’s Military Shows Off Rifle-Toting Robot Dogs 

How Facial Recognition Technology Is Transforming Travel Efficiency and Security

POLITICS

Trump Is Now a Convicted Felon. Here’s What That Could Mean for His Rights 

Wide Scope of Presidential Emergency Powers Could Be Reined In by Congress This Year 

Speed, Red-Light Camera Rule Revisions Approved, Pursued in 12 States

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