Travis Sanford reports: The Department of Homeland Security has indefinitely lifted its January 1 deadline to allow federal agencies to accept state driver’s licenses and ID cards before allowing people to board commercial airplanes or enter federal buildings and nuclear power plants. The decision to stay the controversial REAL ID Act of 2005 was in…
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Court: Cop not entitled to immunity for tasering motorist after seatbelt stop
The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has issued its opinion affirming the lower court’s denial of qualified immunity to a police officer who used a taser against a motorist during a routine traffic stop. From the opinion in Bryan v. McPherson: Early one morning in the summer of 2005, Officer Brian McPherson deployed…
Code That Protects Most Cellphone Calls Is Divulged
Kevin J. O’Brien reports: A German computer engineer said Monday that he had deciphered and published the secret code used to encrypt most of the world’s digital mobile phone calls, in what he called an attempt to expose weaknesses in the security of the world’s wireless systems. The action by the encryption expert Karsten Nohl…
20,000 council workers can enter homes without a warrant
Robert Winnett reports: Almost 20,000 council workers now have the right to enter people’s private homes without a warrant or police escort, new research has disclosed. The average local authority has 47 employees authorised to enter private homes, although some councils have hundreds of such inspectors. The Home Office recently admitted that 1,043 different laws…