The Campaign for Reader Privacy, which has been fighting to restore privacy safeguards for library and bookstore records that were stripped away by the Patriot Act, warmly welcomed an announcement by the Inspector General (IG) of the Justice Department that he plans to begin a new investigation into how the government is using Patriot Act…
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UK: Government vehicle surveillance database storing 250 journeys for every motorist
John Swaine reports: The average motorist has the details of 200 of their journeys stored on the Government’s controversial vehicle surveillance database, new figures have shown. The records, which include photographs of private cars, can be secretly handed by ministers to the governments of other European countries or the United States. Documents released under the…
Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension
Peter Eckersley of EFF writes: Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. […] Firefox users can install HTTPS Everywhere by following this link. As always, even if you’re at an HTTPS page, remember that unless Firefox displays a colored address bar and an…
SCOTUS holds that search of Quon’s text messages was not unreasonable (update3)
The Supreme Court has issued its opinion in City of Ontario v. Quon (previous coverage here). The opinion was written by Justice Kennedy. Erin Miller of SCOTUSblog writes that the court held that the search of the police officer’s text messages to his colleagues and to a woman with whom he was having an affair…