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"Illinois Supreme Court rules burnt weed smell alone doesn’t justify vehicle searches," by David Byrnes, Courthouse News Service, September 19, 2024
"Face Recognition on the Border Is an Error-Prone Experiment That Won’t Stop," by Sam Biddle, The Intercept, August 27, 2024
"Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest, Federal Court Rules," by Patrick McDonald, Reason, August 16, 2024
"5th Circuit says 'geofence' warrants violate the Fourth Amendment," by Jordan Rubin, MSNBC, August 13, 2024
"A booming industry of AI age scanners, aimed at children’s faces," by Drew Harwell, Washington Post, August 07, 2024
"Sacramento Cops Shared License Plate Data With Anti-Abortion States," by Joe Lancaster, Reason, July 01, 2024
"Legal privacy boost proposed for abortion care," by Nolan Stout, Courthouse News Service, April 12, 2023
"Op-Ed: Another threat to abortion privacy? Health websites tracking and sharing your data," by Ari Friedman and Matthew McCoy, Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2022
"How an online search for abortion pills landed this woman in jail," by Lauren Rankin, Fast Company, February 26, 2020
"F.T.C. sues over tracking data that could expose visits to abortion clinics.," by Natasha Singer, New York Times, August 29, 2022
"Privacy advocates fear Google will be used to prosecute abortion seekers," by Bobby Allyn, NPR, July 11, 2022
"Where abortion is banned, someone's phone activity could be used as criminal evidence," by Bobby Allyn, NPR, June 30, 2022
"U.S. tech industry frets about handing data to states prosecuting abortion," by Jeffrey Dastin, Reuters, June 24, 2022
"Prosecutors in states where abortion is now illegal could begin building criminal cases against providers," by Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, June 24, 2022
"Online data, medical records could be used to put women in jail under new abortion laws," by Tami Abdollah, USA Today, June 12, 2022
