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Beware of Governments Bearing Contact Tracing Apps

Providing hospital personnel and the general public with enough tests, masks and hand soap is hard. In-person contact tracing is expensive and risky for the contact tracer, and existing numbers of trained contact tracing personnel are far below what’s needed. So it’s no wonder that governments across the world have suddenly warmed right up to […]

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The Fix Is In: House Votes Today on PATRIOT Act Renewal

Yesterday, on an hour or two’s notice, the Rules Committee of the House introduced and voted out a new bill renewing the government’s most controversial PATRIOT Act powers. Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) described the bill as originating with a “coalition of intel hawks and some centrist Republicans and Democrats”. It is significantly weaker than the […]