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Wretched, vile, appalling don t cover it. Grim, ghastly, abominable are weak.
When it comes to 2020, the year of COVID, of quarantine, of unemployment, of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, of forest fires and hurricanes and nonstop election madness, of closed schools and shuttered restaurants and 3,000 dead
every day the equivalent of a new 9/11 every 24 hours the English language fails us.
Luckily, the English prepared for just such an emergency.
Latin, at the great British public schools, was always the basis of a gentleman s education. So Queen Elizabeth II didn t hesitate when confronted by the year 1992.
It was, she said famously, her
DEA Ditches Location Data Vendor Currently Being Investigated By Congress
Published: December 18, 2020
The Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement agencies needed a warrant to obtain cell site location info. The ability to turn third parties (like telcos) into proxy long-term tracking devices concerned the court, which decided this wasn’t permissible under the Fourth Amendment. Every American carries a cellphone. But just because they do doesn’t mean they agree the government should be able to track their movements with them.
No problem, said federal law enforcement agencies. We’ll just get the same data from new sources ones not specifically mentioned in the