The "gray zone" of mutual tolerance that PISSI wants to eliminate is what we should defend.

A US court has imposed strict limits on surveillance using stingrays (cell tower simulators).

I expect that the Supreme Court will eventually decide the question.

Even if stingrays were banned, or did not exist, the government could get their location records from the phone company. For me, that is too intrusive already.

Congress is considering a law to make it a serious crime to send a SWAT team to someone's house by making a false report.

I don't think this will put an end to the practice of "swatting". It is too easy to make these false reports. Meanwhile, the practice is made easier by thug departments that use SWAT teams too readily. The lower the bar for sending the SWAT team to raid your house, the less someone needs to do to get them to send it.

CNN "suspended" a correspondent for expressing the wrong opinion off the air.

Saudi Court Sentences Poet to Death for Renouncing Islam.