From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a second FOIA lawsuit, demanding the release of the full resolution images captured by airport “digital strip search” machines. EPIC’s suit against the Department of Homeland Security also seeks records detailing air traveler complaints and security breaches that may have exposed data to unauthorized individuals. The TSA has called for mandatory use of the body scanners…
Category: Court
Have You Been Subjected to Suspicionless Laptop Search or Seizure at the Border?
Jennifer Granick of EFF writes: … the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is seeking potential plaintiffs for a lawsuit challenging suspicionless laptop searches. As a first step in this effort, NACDL is seeking to identify defense lawyers who have had their laptops searched at the border and are willing to serve as individual plaintiffs….
UK: Judge says extraditing Gary McKinnon may be unlawful
Afua Hirsch reports: The home secretary may have acted unlawfully by pursuing the extradition of the computer hacker Gary McKinnon, a high court judge said yesterday. Extraditing McKinnon, an Asperger’s sufferer who is facing a lengthy prison sentence in the US for breaching US military and Nasa computers, raises “stark and simple issues”, Mr Justice…
Police fight cellphone recordings
Daniel Rowinski reports: Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording. Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs….