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Owning the Human, Part 2: Patents on LifeJohn Moore's cells became a patented cell line, and the court said they were never his. From a bacterium in 1980 to genes, seeds and mRNA,…
- Paid to Take Them, Part 3: Your Rights at the Door
When CPS knocks, the Constitution still applies. Part 3 of Paid to Take Them covers what the courts say you have, the immunity that shields caseworkers,…
- The Attention Harvest, Part 3: The Silent Partner
The Director of National Intelligence told the Senate under oath it was not collecting data on millions of Americans. What Section 215, PRISM and purchased data…
The Warrantless Road, Part 1: Who Built It and Who’s WatchingA CEO said "We don't" on live TV, then Flock admitted federal pilots. Part 1 of The Warrantless Road covers who built the Flock network, who…
The Warrantless Road, Part 2: When the Machine Is WrongA camera misreads one digit and a family ends up at gunpoint. Part 2 of The Warrantless Road documents the wrongful stops, the missing error data,…
The Warrantless Road, Part 3: Who Watches the WatchersSeven deputies arrested in one Georgia county, and nobody had to ask permission to search. Part 3 of The Warrantless Road covers officers who abused Flock,…
The Warrantless Road, Part 4: The Way OutEvanston cancelled its Flock cameras and it still took seven months to get them off the poles. Part 4 of The Warrantless Road is the way…
The Warrantless Road, Part 5: IllinoisTexas searched cameras in Mount Prospect to find a woman over an abortion, and Illinois found Flock let Border Patrol into its cameras. Part 5 of…
- Two Sets of Rules, Part 2: Policed for Profit
Police can take your cash without charging you, Chicago drove thousands into bankruptcy over parking tickets, and qualified immunity protects officers who shoot a child or…
- Two Sets of Rules, Part 3: It Depends Who You Are
Clinton walked while Reality Winner did five years. Smollett did six days. Officials broke their own lockdown rules while a barber lost his license, an Amish…