Law and policy articles
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Opinion: California law requires police to fix these bad policies. So why haven't they?
Dozens of people across California have been wrongly convicted of crimes largely because of law enforcement officers’ flawed handling of eyewitness evidence. Courts have found instances of eyewitnesses feeling pressured to make an identification from a lineup even when the true culprit wasn’t present; making shaky identifications that were ultimately presented at trial as smoking-gun evidence; and choosing from lineups of photos in which some bore no resemblance to their description of the...
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Need time to study impact of proposed digital competition law, say tech policy advocacy groups
A group of 21 organisations, including Broadband India Forum, Deepstrat, the Internet Freedom Foundation, and the Dialogue, as well as some individuals, have written to the government asking for a five-month extension to the May 15 deadline to provide inputs to the draft of the Digital Competition Bill.In the letter addressed to the ministry of corporate affairs, the organisations and individuals have argued that the extension in the comments submission timeline was necessary to allow...
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Kari Lake downplays Arizona’s strong pro-life law, calls for economic policies to reduce abortion
Kari Lake dismissed the significance of Arizona’s abortion ban and suggested tax cuts and other economic measures are the best way to reduce abortions, despite widespread evidence showing the effectiveness of pro-life laws.