Chinese Police Step Up Phone Checks, Using Surveillance Apps
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Chinese netizens recently reported that police have begun checking people’s smartphones with a special mobile device at subway stations and on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai.
Beijing police said that the tool is only for scanning people’s IDs, but netizens and experts who dug deeper have discovered that the product can extract personal data from smartphones without authorization from the smartphone owner.
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Here is why the Census case is the superlative opportunity to draw a line in the sand on separation of powers
Courts don’t draft census surveys the same way Roberts himself admitted they don’t draw election maps, which themselves are determined by such census information. That is inherently one of the most political questions by nature in our system.
Statute [13 U. S. C. §141(a)] says very clearly that the secretary of commerce “shall, in the year 1980 and every 10 years thereafter, take a decennial census of population. . . in such form and content as he may determine,
The Constitution grants the president authority to ask the citizenship question, statute grants the president such authority, the question has been the very essence of the census for most of our history, including our founding, and the president fulfilled the dictates of the APA.