TechCrunch reports that Clear, the Registered Traveler program that enabled passengers to pay exorbitant amounts of money just to breeze through airport security checks, has ceased operations. The parent company, Verified Identity Pass, Inc.. was reportedly unable to negotiate a deal with its biggest creditor. So now what happens to all the sensitive personal information…
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Fight over German filtering law sends MP into Pirate Party
After seeing Swedish voters send the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, the German branch of the group has now gotten a seat in the lower house of that nation’s parliament, the Bundestag. But the seat didn’t come about through an electoral triumph; instead a member of the Social Democrats, Jörg Trauss, changed allegiances, claiming…
White House to Abandon Spy-Satellite Program
The Obama administration plans to kill a controversial Bush administration spy satellite program at the Department of Homeland Security, according to officials familiar with the decision. The program came under fire from its inception two years ago. Democratic lawmakers said it would lead to domestic spying. The program would have provided federal, state and local…
LifeLock Files Motion to Reconsider
LifeLock issued a press release in which it says that it has filed a motion to reconsider in California’s U.S. District Court in the case of Experian v. LifeLock. Last month, the court had granted Experian’s motion for partial summary judgment and had blocked LifeLock from placing fraud alerts for customers. The court held that…