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Which search engine forces you to share your personal data with almost all of its products and sites?

A school district in which state will stop illegally promoting religion to public school students after a settlement with 吃瓜直播 plaintiffs?

Which amendment did the government violate when it placed a GPS tracking device on Antoine Jones鈥檚 car?

Of which band is Billy McCarthy, who talks about solitary confinement in a new Prison Voices podcast, the singer and songwriter?

吃瓜直播 Lens: Google's New Privacy Policy
This week, Google announced a new privacy policy effective March 1. The new policy is consistent across the vast majority of Google products, and it鈥檚 in English; you don鈥檛 have to speak legalese to understand it. But, the new privacy policy makes clear that Google will, for the first time, combine the personal data you share with any one of its products or sites across almost all of its products and sites (everything but Google Chrome, Google Books, and Google Wallet) in order to obtain a more comprehensive picture of you. And there鈥檚 no opting out.

Don't B-SHOCked: Settlement Shows Public Schools Can't Proselytize
A federal judge signed and entered a consent decree and order this week in the 吃瓜直播鈥檚 case challenging widespread and pervasive religious practices in South Carolina鈥檚 Chesterfield County School District. The 吃瓜直播 brought the lawsuit on behalf of a local father, Jonathan Anderson, and his son, who is a student at New Heights Middle School. Both are non-believers. The school district鈥檚 unlawful practices promoting religion garnered national attention after a video was posted online documenting a school-day assembly that featured a Christian rapper who calls himself 鈥淏-SHOC鈥�. The assembly also included a sermon delivered by an evangelical youth minister, and students were asked to sign cards pledging themselves to Jesus. Students who did not want to attend the assembly were told that they could instead spend the afternoon in in-school suspension.

Supreme Court Rules Government Violated Privacy Rights in GPS Tracking Case
In a major victory for privacy, this week in U.S. v. Jones the Supreme Court unanimously held that, 鈥淭he Government鈥檚 attachment of the GPS device to the vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle鈥檚 movements, constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.鈥� The Court found that the government violated the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans from unreasonable searches, when it placed a GPS device on Antoine Jones鈥檚 car and tracked his movements continuously for a month.

It is a fantastic privacy decision from the court, and we鈥檙e hoping it also leads to some fantastic privacy decisions by Congress. The law must catch up with new technology; !

Podcast: Billy McCarthy of We Are Augustines talks about Solitary Confinement and Mental Illness
Billy McCarthy is the singer and songwriter for the band . Many of the songs on the band鈥檚 critically acclaimed album Rise Ye Sunken Ships were inspired by McCarthy鈥檚 brother James, who suffered from mental illness and took his own life after spending five years in solitary confinement in a California prison.

In this new podcast, McCarthy talks about what it鈥檚 like to have a family member confined to solitary and the tragic outcome.

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