Controversial technology that collects bar patrons’ personal information will remain in use after B.C.’s privacy commissioner worked out a compromise with the technology’s owner. Privacy commissioner David Loukidelis ruled in July that a system made by TreoScope to collect and store customers’ names, photos, birthdates, genders and driver’s licence numbers as part of the BarWatch…
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Feds invoke national secrets in wiretap case
The Obama administration, trying to derail a lawsuit over former President George W. Bush’s authority to wiretap Americans without court permission, has refused to take a position on the program’s legality and says a federal judge can’t decide that question because the crucial facts are national secrets. A ruling on whether Bush exceeded his constitutional…
Chicago development critics fight for anonymity
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has asked an Illinois Circuit Court judge to quash subpoenas aimed at outing opponents of a controversial city project. In December, local residents filed a lawsuit in state court against the city of Chicago and local developers, challenging the legality of a development project in the city’s Uptown neighborhood. In…
UK to share fingerprint data with other countries
The UK is to share fingerprint information with Canada and Australia, with the US and New Zealand to follow soon, the Home Office said today. The collaboration will make it easier to detect people with criminal histories in other countries, speed up deportations and establish previously unknown identities, the Home Office said. The new data-sharing…