Primary documents
- Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Nonfatal Self-inflicted Injuries Among Youth Aged 10 to 24 Years in the United States, 2001-2015
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2017
Melissa C. Mercado et al.
For girls aged 10–14, emergency-department self-inflicted-injury rates rose from 119.4 per 100,000 in 2001 to 317.7 in 2015, with an 18.8% annual percentage change during 2009–2015.
- Two men sue the City of San Diego over alleged wrongful arrest linked to Flock ALPR data
News Report · 2026
ABC 10News
ABC 10News, August 2026: Hugo Parra and Ariel Beltran sued San Diego over the arrest built on a Flock vehicle hit.
- Type a Sentence. Search a Person. Across Hundreds of Cameras.
Document · 2026
DeFlockILM
DeFlockILM, July 2026: New Hanover County, North Carolina audit logs show 470 FreeForm AI searches, including people searches where prompts with race terms were blocked and…
- UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Report Addendum on Manning (2012)
Document · 2012
Juan E. Méndez, United Nations Special Rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez, March 2012: concluded that seriously punitive detention conditions for someone not yet found guilty violated Manning's rights and presumption…
- UNESCO: Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology (2025)
Government Record · 2025
UNESCO
UNESCO's 2025 recommendation says collecting, processing, changing or sharing neural data should require prior, free and informed consent.
- Unheard Voice: Evaluating five years of pro-Western covert influence operations
Document · 2022
Graphika and Stanford Internet Observatory
The repository records platform removals for manipulation/spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior and subsequent provision of portions of activity to researchers.
- United Nations Legal Identity Agenda (SDG 16.9)
Government Record · 2015
United Nations Statistics Division
The UN goal to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030.
- United States v. Assange: Court Docket and Judgment Entry (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands; CourtListener reproduction
Court docket for United States v. Assange, June 2024: records the judgment on one count, 62 months with credit for time served, and a $100 special…
- United States v. Assange: Plea Agreement (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
United States and Julian Paul Assange
Plea agreement filed in federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, June 2024: Assange agreed to plead guilty to one charge of conspiring to obtain and…
- United States v. Chatrie, No. 22-4489 (en banc)
Court Filing · 2025
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
United States v. Chatrie (Fourth Circuit, 2025): the full appeals court split 7 to 7 on whether a Google geofence warrant was a search, and upheld…
- United States v. Drew, 259 F.R.D. 449: Order Granting Motion for Judgment of Acquittal
Court Filing · 2009
Judge George H. Wu, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Judge Wu recounts the November 2008 misdemeanor verdicts and deadlocked conspiracy count, then grants acquittal. Treating intentional terms-of-service breach alone as a CFAA misdemeanor would criminalize…
- United States v. Google LLC and YouTube LLC, Stipulated Order for Permanent Injunction and Civil Penalty Judgment
Court Filing · 2019
Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General
The order resolves allegations that YouTube collected children’s personal information without required parental consent. Payments total $170 million: $136 million to FTC and $34 million to…
- United States v. Manning: Army Court of Criminal Appeals (2018)
Court Filing · 2018
U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals; FindLaw reproduction
U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, May 2018: records Chelsea Manning's 35-year sentence and that the President commuted it in January 2017 to time served plus…
- United States v. Moalin, 973 F.3d 977 (9th Cir. 2020)
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The federal appeals court ruling that the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' telephone metadata violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and may have violated the Fourth…
- United States v. Moalin, No. 13-50572
Court Filing · 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit held the metadata program exceeded FISA authorization, but affirmed the convictions and found suppression unwarranted.
- United States v. Ring LLC: Complaint (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
Federal Trade Commission
The Justice Department and FTC complaint against Amazon's Ring: any employee or contractor could watch customers' private videos, and one employee viewed thousands of videos of…
- United States v. Ring LLC: Proposed Stipulated Order (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Federal Trade Commission
The proposed court order in the Ring case: Ring neither admits nor denies the charges, must delete improperly used data and must have independent privacy audits.
- United States v. Snowden: Criminal Complaint (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
Federal Bureau of Investigation; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
FBI criminal complaint filed under seal in Virginia, June 2013: charges Edward Snowden with theft of government property and two crimes of sharing classified intelligence information.…
- Unregulated Tech Mediation → Inevitable Online Deception → Societal Harm
Transcript · 2020
Tristan Harris
Harris’s prepared testimony discusses intermittent variable rewards, slot-machine comparisons, infinite scrolling, stopping cues, notification sounds, likes, filters, and moral outrage.
- USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, Public Law 114-23 (2015)
Government Record · 2015
U.S. Congress
U.S. Congress, June 2015: the USA FREEDOM Act, Public Law 114-23, changed the rules for collecting business records and other surveillance, after the court fights over…
- USA FREEDOM Act, Public Law 114-23
Government Record · 2015
United States Congress
The Act ended the prior bulk Section 215 mechanism by requiring a specific selection term and creating a new targeted call-detail-record process.
- Vehicle Recognition Software for Investigation-grade LPR
Document · 2026
Flock Safety
Flock's 2026 accuracy claims: over 99% capture in good conditions, 96% character-reading accuracy and 97% state accuracy. These are company numbers with no independent test published.
- Verified Complaint, Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans v. City of San Diego et al., Case No. 26CU051879C
Court Filing · 2026
Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans; ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties
A separate ACLU-backed lawsuit against San Diego's plate reader program (September 2026) that cites the Parra and Beltran arrest. These are allegations, not findings.
- Virginia Code §2.2-5517: Automatic license plate recognition systems
Government Record · 2025
Virginia General Assembly
Virginia's 2025 law requiring plate reader data to be destroyed after 21 days so neither the vendor nor police can recover it, and stating that a…