The mandatory disclosure of donors to nonprofits punishes unpopular causes and chills speech protected by the First Amendment. The effect is to entrench the media consensus and the heckler’s veto, which these days too often work in tandem. Read More »

Anonymous speech is as much a part of “democracy” as marching in the streets or writing a newspaper column. And in a healthy liberal media environment, reporters would be demanding answers from those abusing power, not working with them to inhibit political speech. Read More »

Members of Congress this week cited I & A’s collection of information about journalists and protesters as an alarming encroachment of government authority into activities protected by the First Amendment. Read More »

Sen. Angus King of Maine said he was concerned that some DHS Intelligence & Analysis activities may not be “consistent either with the rule of law or the constitutional protections of privacy.” Read More »

“Data is so seductive. Once you have these data sets, there’s so many reasons to use them.” Read More »

Despite a warning from Texas’ attorney general, Austin’s mayor is still continuing his threat to punish local businesses who don’t obey his questionably legal new order. Read More »

The 13 criteria that restaurants will have to adhere to in order to reopen for dine-in service during the novel coronavirus pandemic include a stipulation they “create a daily log of customers and maintain that daily log for 30 days, including telephone/email contact information, and time in.” Read More »

Whether you're the person doing the reporting or the person being reported on...when your personal information ends up in a government database, it never goes away and can fall into the hands of the wrong people. Read More »

"That invades our privacy. I want to go to the restaurant to enjoy the food. I don't go there for someone to know where I've been, what time." Read More »

If there's "no controls, and no protections and no oversight, and a bunch of people opt in, and then the data get used for commercial and non-pandemic related purposes, then it doesn’t matter that it's (optional),” he said. Read More »