Declan McCullagh reports: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the…
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FBI to Wikipedia: Remove our seal
John D. Sutter reports: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn’t remove the FBI’s seal from its site. The seal is featured in an encyclopedia entry about the FBI. Wikipedia isn’t backing down, however. The online encyclopedia — which is run by a nonprofit group…
Hack uses Google Street View data to stalk its victims
Dan Goodin reports: A security researcher has devised an attack suitable for stalking and similarly creepy endeavors that uses JavaScript and geo location data from Google to pinpoint a victim’s precise location. In a talk titled “How I Met Your Girlfriend,” at the Black Hat conference last week, hacker Samy Kamkar demoed the technique, which…
Lawyers Seek Order Forcing U.S. to Destroy NSA Wiretapping Data
Maria Dinzeo reports: The Center for Constitutional Rights has asked a federal judge to order the government to destroy or quarantine all surveillance records from the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program. “It requires little imagination to see the continued risk of harm posed by the profoundly intrusive surveillance the NSA carried out with abandon…