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Constitutional LawOpinionPrivacy & Surveillance
October 13, 2026

V for Vendetta Got the Watching Right. New Hampshire Wrote the Better Ending.

V for Vendetta warned about surveillance. Here is what the U.S. record shows, and how New Hampshire’s Article 10, privacy amendment and camera laws push back.

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Civil LibertiesExplainers
October 10, 2026

New Hampshire’s State Courts Reported Two Wiretaps in a Decade of Federal Records. Federal Judges in New Hampshire Reported 24.

In ten federal Wiretap Reports covering 2016 through 2025, New Hampshire state judges are listed with two wiretaps, both 2019 drug cases. Federal judges in the District of New Hampshire are listed with 24. What RSA 570-A requires, and what the counts leave out.

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Constitutional LawLaw & CourtsPress FreedomPrivacy & Surveillance
October 5, 2026

What WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden Exposed, and What It Changed

Two appeals courts held the NSA phone-records program unlawful and Congress ended it. The record behind WikiLeaks, Assange and Snowden, and a New Hampshire ruling.

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ExplainersJobs in the LawPrivacy & Surveillance
September 16, 2026

One Word in New Hampshire's Private Investigator Law Decides Who Counts as Press. Nobody Has Defined It.

RSA 106-F exempts anyone reporting for an “accredited” news outlet from a licensing scheme backed by a misdemeanor; the chapter never says what accredited means, and no one in New Hampshire issues the credential.

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Civil LibertiesPrivacy & Surveillance
July 25, 2026

Three of Every Four Government Demands for Your Verizon Data Never See a Judge

291,486 government demands for Verizon customer data in one year, about three in four never seen by a judge, a spy law that expired in June 2026 while the spying kept running, and the fine print Verizon publishes about all of it.

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Civil LibertiesPrivacy & Surveillance
July 3, 2026

No Evidence Required: How the FBI, DEA, and New Hampshire Decide Who Gets Watched

The FBI can open a file on you with no evidence of a crime, the safeguard for journalists is a single word in agency policy, and New Hampshire plugs into the machine through a Concord fusion center most residents have never heard of.

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