Jesus Diaz reports: Imagine a public eye-scanner that can identify 50 people per minute, in motion. Now imagine the government installed these scanner systems all across an entire city. Or don’t imagine it, because it’s already happening, right now. Leon, Mexico, is doing exactly that, installing real-time iris scanners from biometrics research and development firm…
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Radio Frequency Identification Tags: Identity Theft Danger or Modern Aid?
Spencer Michels reports: In a recent NewsHour report on cybersecurity, we showed security expert Chris Paget, shown above, climbing on a 29th floor hotel balcony in Las Vegas to demonstrate how he could read radio frequency identification tags at “long distances.” The RFID tags are embedded in various cards people carry such as access cards…
UK: Privacy law to stop rise in gagging orders by judges
Christopher Hope reports: Britain could get its first ever privacy law to stop judges creating one by stealth through the courts, a justice minister said. In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Lord McNally suggested that the right to privacy could be enshrined in law after a number of celebrities were awarded so-called “super-injunctions” to…
Wiretap Act Violations Require Criminal Intent
Tim Hull reports: A son who used his iPhone to record a kitchen-table conversation about his dying mother’s will did not violate the federal Wiretap Act, the 2nd Circuit ruled, because he had no criminal intent. The federal appeals court in Manhattan joined its sister circuits in finding that the Act’s “exception to the one-party…