Cato scholars pose questions for final debate; Can warrants for digital evidence also require fingerprints to unlock phones?; ‘Law, Borders, and Speech’ conference at Stanford on Monday; The ‘freedom of the press’ doesn’t give the media any special privileges — but it’s also not a redundancy; My “USA Today” column on the importance of making it easier for Americans to “vote with their feet”;
 
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Cato scholars pose questions for final debate
The folks at Cato have asked some of their resident and adjunct scholars – Tim Lynch, Michael F. Cannon, Ilya Shapiro, Thaya Brook Knight, Benjamin Friedman, A. Trevor Thrall, Matthew Feeney, and yours truly – to propose some questions for the candidates to answer during the debate tonight, and the results are posted in this video …
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Can warrants for digital evidence also require fingerprints to unlock phones?
The government recently obtained such a warrant in Los Angeles. But is it legal? As with some other encryption workarounds, the answer is complicated.
‘Law, Borders, and Speech’ conference at Stanford on Monday
An upcoming conference at Stanford celebrating (I hope!) the 20th anniversary of publication of "Law and Borders."
The ‘freedom of the press’ doesn’t give the media any special privileges — but it’s also not a redundancy
The freedom of the press has been seen throughout American history as protecting the right to use the press as technology -- everyone’s right to use mass communications. It was not seen as protecting a right of the press as industry, which would have been a right limited to people who printed or wrote for newspapers, magazines and the like.
 
My “USA Today” column on the importance of making it easier for Americans to “vote with their feet”
As we prepare to vote at ballot box in November, we should not ignore the pressing need to empower Americans by enhancing opportunities for foot voting.
 
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