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Spyware vendors face growing backlash, legal setbacks
A recent Ninth Circuit decision dealt a blow to spyware firms’ efforts to avoid accountability in U.S. courts.
November 15, 2021
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Grayson Clary
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Protecting Sources and Materials
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Infrastructure bill seeks to withhold new categories of records from the public
The infrastructure bill includes new exemptions to FOIA, including technology-related exemptions.
November 8, 2021
By
Adam A. Marshall
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Freedom of Information
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Faced with subpoena, local journalist turns to RCFP’s free legal hotline for help
“You can’t beat the response time, the knowledge, the advice, the willingness to take this on.”
November 5, 2021
By
Chris Young
Categorized in
Hotline
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‘Actual malice’ and internet speech
The rise of “internet speech” is at the heart of a libel case SCOTUS is considering whether to hear.
November 1, 2021
By
Gillian Vernick
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Libel and Privacy
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Federal judge orders border agency to release records related to Twitter unmasking
RCFP sued CBP in 2018 for records concerning the agency’s effort to identify the person behind an anonymous Twitter account.
October 25, 2021
By
Chris Young
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Freedom of Information
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When spurious ‘hacking’ claims chill journalism
The idea that viewing a site’s source code amounts to hacking is, to put it gently, ridiculous.
October 25, 2021
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Grayson Clary
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Newsgathering
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Supreme Court asked to consider whether long-term pole camera surveillance constitutes search under Fourth Amendment
As the Reporters Committee has argued in the past, targeted, long-term surveillance threatens the First Amendment.
October 18, 2021
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Gillian Vernick
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First Amendment
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For Facebook, a week in the limelight
The social media network is facing intense scrutiny in the wake of an outage, whistleblower disclosures and antitrust litigation.
October 13, 2021
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Grayson Clary
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First Amendment
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Not much news for media law out of the Supreme Court’s ‘long conference’
No media law cases were accepted for review in Supreme Court ‘long conference.’
October 4, 2021
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Gillian Vernick
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Court Access
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Annie Kapnick joins Reporters Committee as litigation fellow
Annie will draft friend-of-the-court briefs and support the Reporters Committee’s litigation efforts.
September 30, 2021
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Kacie Yamamoto
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