Consumers around the world are installing “smart” home systems for the convenience and control it gives them, but many are unaware of who or what may actually be controlling these systems and for what purpose. Users of smart home technology are sometimes startled to find that someone else is operating their systems. In 2019, a…

Despite the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which prohibits warrantless government searches, U.S. agencies are proving to be ever more intrusive in their routine surveillance of Americans’ speech and activities. Often working in collaboration with private companies and banks, agencies like the FBI have been misusing laws against foreign terrorism to vacuum up and sift through the…