(The Center Square) - California's ethics agency oversees an unlimited, blank-check system of payments solicited by elected officials — including the $347 million Gov. Gavin Newsom has steered through California politics. An investigation by The Center Square has found the state's "transparency" portal shows the money, but it omits the conflicts of interest.
(The Center Square) – As Congress plans to reauthorize a major government surveillance authority, privacy advocates say that failing to enact reforms would allow the federal government to spy on Americans at an unprecedented scale with artificial intelligence.Â
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Education's Student Privacy Policy Office and the Department of Justice allege that two school districts, Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Maryland and Ann Arbor Public Schools in Michigan, have withheld information from parents regarding students' gender identity.
A Portland-based architect is dropping a novel anti-doxing lawsuit against a website targeting companies in Oregon that serve as contractors for federal immigration authorities. In a Monday notice filed in federal court, attorneys for Sharron van der Meulen, a managing partner at ZGF Architects, moved for a voluntary dismissal of the case. Her lawyers noted […]