Most people would agree they have a right to privacy, a right not to incriminate themselves, and a right to freedom of thought. Brain fingerprinting threatens all three.

A group of college professors is rallying in support of consumers’ right to sue. Some 423 law school, university and college professors are sending a letter to two senators, encouraging them to support a rule the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has passed.

One of the nation’s largest holders of private student-loan debt must refund millions of dollars to borrowers and temporarily stop many of its collection activities, under a settlement with federal regulators announced on Monday. The creditor, the National Collegiate Student Loan Trusts, holds $12 billion in student loans that were originally made by banks. In Monday’s settlement with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the trusts agreed to pay nearly $19 million in penalties and borrower refunds — and could be on the hook for millions in additional payments and forgiven loans.

This paves the way for a tariff on Chinese solar panels

Today, the Washington DC Court of Appeals overturned a Superior Court conviction of a man who was located by police using a cell-site simulator, or Stingray, CBS News reports. The court ruled that the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when law enforcement tracked down the suspect using his own cell phone without a warrant.

Oklahoma City police shot dead a deaf man who refused to obey shouted orders to put down a metal pipe.

The parents of a California man allegedly tried to rob a Starbucks in Fresno, but was thwarted by a Good Samaritan, say their son was the victim of "excessive force."

When patient and doctor don't speak the same language, it's not enough to have an ad hoc interpreter. You need an adult fluent in both languages — who can also cut through medical jargon.

As the rules prohibiting the use of force are crumbling, we risk returning to a world where might is right and war is legal.

Senator Ron Wyden, as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, spent half a decade trying to get President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, to answer some fairly straightforward questions about NSA surveillance on...

There have been so many controversies this week on the bitcoin space, and the viral jamie dimon`s comment on bitcoin as a "fraud" .

What interest do people living in a supposedly secular and liberal society have in regulating perhaps the most intimate aspect of an adult’s life—consensual sexual behavior with another adult? How do people decide which sexual acts, conducted in private, have a public impact and, therefore, become the public’s business? For our purposes, why do Americans think as we do about sex, and how have we used the Constitution, and the laws of the fifty states, to instantiate those beliefs? By Annette Gordon-Reed.

A case of mistaken identity put the wrong man in jail. Now it highlights the failure of prosecutions to tackle a humanitarian disaster. By Ben Taub.

These laws were drawn up with the best of intentions. They were supposed to protect us. But, sadly, they're being used for nefarious purposes.

Would it surprise you if it was both? The answer just might surprise you. Read on to find out more!

Crypto systems regulate themselves.

For many years now, we've been covering the sometimes odd/sometimes dopey case of the monkey selfie and the various disputes over who holds the copyright (the pretty clear answer: no one owns the copyright, because the law only applies to...

The new campaign from America's Dairy Farmers makes some good points — and some questionable ones.

Trump’s Homeland Security Department is ignoring a cardinal principle of administrative law.

Rolled out for a second year at the Notting Hill Carnival, the technology ‘couldn’t tell the difference between a young woman and a balding man’, said observers