Jeremy Polofsky reports that pilots Michael Roberts and Ann Poe have amended their lawsuit against DHS and TSA over the whole body imaging (WBI) and enhanced pat-down techniques: Two U.S. commercial airline pilots complained in a lawsuit on Friday that new screening procedures for flight crews — scaled back after complaints by pilots — were…
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Top court to weigh privacy against government data needs
William Matthews reports: Thanks to increasingly sophisticated communications technology and ever-expanding interconnected data bases, even small-town police can run detailed background checks to discover criminals during routine traffic stops. […] But there’s a big problem with this instant access to information: A lot of what’s in the databases is wrong, says Marc Rotenberg, president of…
Federal education officials instruct schools to violate student privacy and trample free speech
Well, okay, maybe that’s not exactly what the headline on The Daily Caller actually says, and I’m quite sure it’s not how the feds would describe their actions, but their attempts to deal with cyberbullying and harassment may ride roughshod over student privacy and speech while imposing more liability on schools. Neil Munro of The…
Swedish Parliament delays approval of data retention law
Mikael Ricknäs reports: Sweden will not put into effect the E.U. Data Retention Directive for at least a year, after a vote in the Parliament on Wednesday postponed the implementation of the directive. Approval of the directive would have made it mandatory for operators to store user data. […] The European Commission — the E.U.’s…