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Earlier today, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced a revised version of his USA FREEDOM legislation, the USA FREEDOM Act of 2014, which focuses on telephone record collection and FISA Court reform. While this bill is not a comprehensive solution to overbroad and unconstitutional surveillance, it is a strong first step. EFF urges Congress to support passage…
Sexual assaults on university campuses have become a hot topic in Washington, state legislatures, and in the news. With consistent reports (like this one from The New York Times) of institutions botching their responses to these cases, FIRE has long argued that campuses are ill-equipped to adjudicate these cases and that the guilt or innocence…
Photo Anna, outside the Barn, a campus dance hall, said she was sexually assaulted there weeks into her freshman year at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Credit Leslye Davis/The New York Times GENEVA, N.Y. — She was 18 years old, a freshman, and had been on campus for just two weeks when one Saturday night…
The Miami coastline: there are fears that even a 30cm rise in the sea level could be catastrophic. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty A drive through the sticky Florida heat into Alton Road in Miami Beach can be an unexpectedly awkward business. Most of the boulevard, which runs north through the heart of the resort’s most opulent…
TIME Newsfeed society What I Learned as a Woman at a Men’s-Rights Conference Don Bayley—Getty Images I went to the conference in suburban Detroit expecting a group of feminist-hating Internet trolls; I found much more Detroit once epitomized the possibilities of the American Dream: as the hub of the U.S. auto industry, money, power and…