From the UK’s Home Office: An array of reforms in the Protection of Freedoms Bill will put an end to unwarranted local authority snooping and unnecessary scrutiny of individuals. It will see: an end to the routine monitoring of 9.3 million people under the radically reformed vetting and barring scheme millions of householders protected from town hall…
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North Carolina Dept. Of Revenue, Amazon Reach Settlement In Privacy Case
The North Carolina Department of Revenue has agreed to stop gathering personal data on on-line buyers. The agreement came in the settlement of a lawsuit filed by Amazon to stop the NCDOR from collecting information. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU-NCLF, and ACLU of Washington got involved in the lawsuit on behalf of several Amazon…
Court Throws Out Warrantless Search of Car’s Data Recorder [corrected]
Metropolitan News-Enterprise reports an appellate decision from the Sixth District Court of Appeals in California in People v. Xinos, 11 S.O.S. 782: Police violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a drunk driving/vehicular manslaughter suspect by downloading data from the car’s sensing and diagnostic module without a warrant, the Sixth District Court of Appeal ruled yesterday….
Senate to take up PATRIOT Act extension bills
There are three bills concerning the sunsetting PATRIOT Act provisions currently on the Senate’s calendar: FISA Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 . Introduced by Feinstein. A bill to extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and the FISA Amendments Act…