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A former Twitter employee revealed continued privacy and data security violations by the company, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post on Tuesday. The whistleblower, a former Twitter engineer, filed a complaint with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in October 2022 under advice of Whistleblower Aid. The complaint [...]

US President Joe Biden Tuesday signed into law the Prison Camera Reform Act, 2021, which requires the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to revamp the outdated security systems at its 122 facilities. It puts special emphasis on fixing broken surveillance cameras after the surfacing of several reports of inmate escapes, staff sexual misconduct and high-profile [...]

The US Senate Wednesday passed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act, which updates the US’s current war crimes statutes to enable domestic prosecution of war criminals regardless of where the alleged war crimes occurred. The bill’s passage comes in the midst of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskyy’s visit to a joint session of the [...]

The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee Tuesday approved articles of impeachment against Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. The Republican-controlled committee voted fourteen to eight along party lines to report House Resolution 240 as committed, setting the stage for a full House of Representatives vote on Wednesday. House Republicans first filed articles of impeachment against Krasner on [...]

Republican members of the Pennsylvania State House Wednesday filed articles of impeachment against Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner. State Representative Martina White, the only Republican legislator from Philadelphia, is the lead sponsor of the resolution. The House referred the resolution to the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. The committee has not yet scheduled its next [...]

Whistleblower and former Twitter-employee Peiter Zatko Tuesday testified to the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Data Security. As Twitter’s former “Security Lead,” Zatko told the committee that Twitter prioritized profits over security, creating serious risks for American users. Zatko, also known as dotMudge, was Twitter’s Security Lead from 2020-2022 for the company’s global support and [...]

The FBI Tuesday seized Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry’s cell phone, potentially in furtherance of the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) investigation into the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. In an exclusive statement to Fox News, Perry confirmed that FBI agents approached him with a warrant and requested his cellphone. The seizure comes only one [...]

The US House Judiciary Committee Wednesday marked up and advanced two bills that would ban assault-style rifles and make it easier to sue gun manufacturers if their weapons are used unlawfully. The first bill, advanced in a 25-18 vote, entitled the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2021” (H.R. 1808), forbids the importation, sale, manufacture, transfer, or [...]

The US House of Representatives’ Committee on Oversight and Reform Friday asked five gunmakers to provide information on the manufacturing, marketing and sales of assault weapons used in mass shootings, in the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. House Oversight and Reform Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney sent letters on [...]

The US Senate Thursday voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court. Jackson was confirmed with bipartisan support and received a Senate vote of 53-47. GOP Senators Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski crossed party lines in favor of the nomination. Two weeks ago, Jackson went through four days of hearings [...]