In a post-Roe world — if the Supreme Court upends the 1973 decision that legalized abortion — search data would become more valuable, and women more vulnerable.

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A divided federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging part of the NSA's warrantless surveillance of Americans' communications.

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Attorneys for a Baltimore man suing police over the use of a cell site simulator to locate him are asking a federal appellate court to review the case after it was dismissed earlier this month. Kerron Andrews filed suit arguing ...

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The committee is scheduled to hear 23 bills Tuesday afternoon, including one to reinstate the death penalty in Maryland.

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The Baltimore City Council plans to summon Baltimore police to a hearing to explain its use of a manned plane with cameras to record movements all across the city. The Baltimore Sun reports that council members will ask the department ...

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The North American Aerospace Defense Command is launching its second and final surveillance blimp above Edgewood on Aug. 19 as part of a cruise missile defense system. The aerostat program, called the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense System (JLENS), ...

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BETHESDA — Montgomery County police have accused a Bethesda man of using a selfie stick to record videos of the woman who lived above him. According to police, 60-year-old Donald F. Beard attached a camera to a long metal pole ...

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A military surveillance blimp is hovering 10,000 feet above the Aberdeen Proving Ground, but its launch late last month wasn’t without a hitch.

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While Congress mulls how to curtail the NSA's collection of Americans' telephone records, impatient civil liberties groups are looking to legal challenges already underway in the courts to limit government surveillance powers.

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The Army says it won't install high-powered video cameras on two blimp-like surveillance aircraft that will start hovering above suburban Baltimore in December.

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