Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert.  As many as 50 officers from the Edmonton Police Department (EPD) will begin using these FRT-enabled BWCs today as part of a proof-of-concept experiment. EPD is the first police department in the world to use these Axon devices, according […]

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If you’ve been following the wave of age-gating laws sweeping across the country and the globe, you’ve probably noticed that lawmakers, tech companies, and advocates all seem to be using different terms for what sounds like the same thing. Age verification, age assurance, age estimation, age gating—they get thrown around interchangeably, but they technically mean different things. And those differences matter a lot when we’re talking about your rights, your privacy, your data, and who gets to access […]

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Tweet Jason Willick writes insightfully about the U.S. military’s attack on boats that it alleges were used to smuggle drugs. A slice: In other words, the middle ground in this controversy is evaporating. Either you oppose the campaign of summary killings of civilians allegedly running drugs in the Caribbean, or you endorse all of it. To endorse the policy but oppose its execution in this one instance is a politically thin reed. (Trump himself initially occupied that middle […]

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Learn more about using Google products like Gemini, Search, Shopping, Pixel and more over the holidays.

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The fight for educational freedom is as old as America itself and rooted in a deep and enduring tradition of parents and communities shaping how children learn. lead , On December 9th, you can join Cato scholar Neal McCluskey for a live online book forum as he and the Head of Education at the Liberty Branch of the Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University, James Shuls, discuss their new book, Fighting for the Freedom to Learn, which […]

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Doug Bandow Ronald Wilson Reagan left the presidency on January 20, 1989. He was widely seen as having revived America, restoring popular confidence, igniting economic growth, and winning the Cold War. Many people viewed Vice President George H. W. Bush’s victory in the 1988 presidential race as Reagan’s election to a third term. , Years later, Reagan’s outsized memory continued to dominate the Republican Party, mesmerizing activists and candidates alike. But Reagan’s reign came to a dramatic end […]

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