Becky Yerak reports: Slamming on the brakes? Doing 100 mph on the highway? Maybe you won’t — if your car insurance company is watching you. Allstate Corp. has launched a voluntary program that uses a device installed in a car to reward safe and low-mileage Illinois drivers with savings of up to 30 percent. The…
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Ca: Supreme Court will hear case over warrantless emergency wiretaps
The Canadian Press reports: The Supreme Court of Canada will decide if a Vancouver judge was right to throw out a law which allows police to use wiretaps without a warrant in an emergency. The case involves six men convicted last April in the 2006 kidnapping and ransom of a drug trafficker and two other…
Google and ICO in cahoots over Wi-Fi data probe
Nicole Kobie reports: The Information Commissioner’s Office and Google teamed up on their response to an MP’s complaint about the search giant’s Wi-Fi scandal, according to documents obtained by PC Pro under the Freedom of Information Act. […] After Google confessed the scraped data held more personal information than it first admitted, the ICO’s group…
RIM buckles on India’s Blackberry encryption pressure
Research in Motion has bowed to the Indian government at last. It told the home ministry that it will comply with the 31 January deadline to provide a “final solution” – you what!? – for lawful access to its data services. This will be done by giving ministers access to the records over a cloud…