Marty Hansen, Paul Maynard and Jack Boeglin of Covington and Burling write: On February 12, 2020, the UK Home Office and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport published the Government’s Initial Consultation Response (“Response”) to feedback received through a public consultation on its Online Harms White Paper (“OHWP”). The OHWP, published in April 2019, proposed a comprehensive regulatory…
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Governments of the world just ramped up spying on reporters
Ahana Datta reports: One day last summer, I noticed that one of our Middle East correspondents was visiting the Financial Times newsroom. I’m head of cyber security at the paper, and I have found that foreign correspondents are often at the tip of the spear for strange and interesting threats. So I stopped to chat. The correspondent,…
Leaked reports show EU police are planning a pan-European network of facial recognition databases
Zach Campbell and Chris Jones report: A police investigator in Spain is trying to solve a crime, but she only has an image of a suspect’s face, caught by a nearby security camera. European police have long had access to fingerprint and DNA databases throughout the 27 countries of the European Union and, in certain…
Kentucky Appeals Court Says Cops Need Warrants To Obtain Real-Time Cell Site Location Info
Tim Cushing writes: The Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision added Fourth Amendment protections to historical cell site location information (CSLI). The Court recognized people had a privacy interest in their location info, even if it was collected and stored by third parties. This narrow finding — that historical cell site info is covered by the Fourth Amendment — has…