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Libertarian, Green Nominees Weigh In on Surveillance and Privacy

Restore The Fourth interviewed Libertarian Party nominee Jo Jorgensen and Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins on privacy and surveillance topics. We asked the Biden and Trump campaigns to respond, but they had not done so by press time. In lieu of their responses, here’s our summary of Biden’s positions from October 2019, and here’s our […]

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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 […]