digital rights
Joshua Morris (opens on the publisher’s site)
joshuamorris.info
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Judge Sara Hill called Flock-style ALPR history indiscriminate mass surveillance and suppressed a warrantless month of travel data.
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A Flock installer called police on a reporter filming in public—the discomfort of being watched that millions feel about license plate readers.
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A California appeals court revived an unfair-competition suit over Apple's past iPhone repair practices—not by finding liability, but by accepting a marketwide competition theory of injury.
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California lawmakers unanimously passed an amendment exempting most open-source operating systems from the Digital Age Assurance Act—a needed correction to a law written for platforms, not forks.
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A paper on “agentic flooding” shows AI making government services easier to navigate. Friction was the rate limiter; the worst response is rebuilding that burden on purpose.
