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 »

Personal services, such as salons and barber shops, must perform health checks before appointments and must maintain a customer log. Read More »

New Orleans is requiring that businesses keep customer logs as a condition of being able to reopen. Not only is it difficult for most businesses to comply, this mandate also violates constitutional privacy. Read More »

New Orleans business owners will need to keep records of who enters their establishments when the city begins easing restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Mayor LaToya Cantrell said Tuesday. Read More »

Three people were arrested today during a rally at the Hawaii State Capitol to protest local government restrictions aimed at stopping COVID-19. Read More »

Hundreds of St. Louis citizens who snitched to the government about businesses that defied closure orders are discovering that their messages are not confidential and their identities are subject to sunshine laws. Read More »

Many of us in the free speech community have warned about the growing insatiable appetite for censorship in the West. Yet we have been losing the fight, and free speech opponents are now capitalizing on the opportunity presented by the pandemic. Read More »