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DARE: Oakland Approves Face Recognition Surveillance Ban

News DigestJuly 19, 2019

City of Oakland, CA, approves ordinance banning municipal use of facial recognition technology; concurrently, the U.S. House of Representatives passes... More

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DARE: State Department to Launch New Human Rights Panel Stressing ‘Natural Law’

News DigestMay 31, 2019

State Department will launch new panel stressing human rights "natural law," feared by some as an attempt to narrow protections for women and members of the LGBTQ community. More

DARE: WhatsApp Discovers ‘Targeted’ Surveillance Attack

News DigestMay 14, 2019

Popular encrypted messaging app WhatsApp discovers vulnerabilities that could expose users to hacking after select users were targeted for surveillance... More

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DARE: Fake News Is Getting a Big Boost from Real Companies

News DigestMay 10, 2019

Advertising companies boost fake news as spread of disinformation overwhelms easy access to quality journalism. (See PEN America's most recent report on... More

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DARE: NSA Recommends Dropping Phone-Surveillance Program

News DigestApril 25, 2019

National Security Agency recommends that the White House drops the phone surveillance program that allows for data collection from millions of phone... More

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DARE: Georgia House Republicans File Bill to Create State Journalism Ethics Board

News DigestApril 3, 2019

Republican state lawmakers in Georgia propose a state ethics board for journalists, raising First Amendment issues of government control of the press. New lawsuit filed by former U.S. intelligence… More

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DARE: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Wants More Regulation on Content and Privacy

News DigestApril 1, 2019

In a reversal of internet giants' longstanding insistence on autonomy and freedom from liability, Mark Zuckerberg asks regulators and lawmakers to step... More

DARE: The Interview Egypt’s Government Doesn’t Want on TV

News DigestJanuary 4, 2019

CBS's 60 Minutes refuses request from Egyptian government to refrain from broadcasting interview with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. President Trump... More

DARE: How a Trump ‘love child’ rumor roiled the media

News DigestApril 13, 2018

More emerges on National Enquirer's owner buying and spiking potentially damaging stories about Donald Trump. The odd spectacle of news organizations acknowledging their restraint in reporting a story, but… More

DARE: New York Threatens to Sue if the Trump Administration Moves Forward with “Religious Protections” for Medical Workers

News DigestMarch 29, 2018

Nineteen Democratic Attorney General's wrote to Trump Administration to challenge proposed rule allowing medical workers to deny health care based on religious grounds. Walmart removes Cosmopolitan magazine from check-out… More

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"Amy was busy at her job in the outskirts of St. Louis, Missouri, when the officer strode through her open doorway... Someone had called the police department and reported that she had been giving pornography to children, a criminal offense in Missouri." https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/missouri-libraries-book-ban/

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Thank you @pen_southafrica for standing in solidarity with Chinese poet Zhang Guiqi and paying tribute to him on the Empty Chair Podcast.

We continue to call with @pen_int and @chinesepen_org for his release from prison. He is serving a six-year sentence on trumped-up charges.

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