Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers has an article on how Obama’s administration is following in the same secretive and civil liberties-busting footsteps of the Bush administration: Although the FBI has acknowledged it improperly obtained thousands of Americans’ phone records for years, the Obama administration continues to assert that the bureau can obtain them without any…
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UK: CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones
Paul Lewis reports: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones,…
FL: Lawsuit against state officials for privacy violation moves forward
Evan Brown writes; Plaintiff sued the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and a number of state officials for violation of the federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, 18 USC §2721-25. Plaintiff claimed that the defendants turned over a large amount of protected personal information to a private party, and that that party then…
Data Privacy Day 2010 in Congress
January 28 is the international Data Privacy Day in the U.S., Canada, and dozens of European countries. In Congress, Rep. Cliff Stearns of Florida introduced a resolution supporting the designation of January 28, 2010 as National Data Privacy Day. To date, the bill has 14 co-sponsors: Rep Barton, Joe [TX-6] Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z….