At the heart of the controversy over “body scanners” is a promise: The images of our naked bodies will never be public. U.S. Marshals in a Florida Federal courthouse saved 35,000 images on their scanner. These are those images. A Gizmodo investigation has revealed 100 of the photographs saved by the Gen 2 millimeter wave scanner from Brijot…
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EPIC Files Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Case on “Personal Privacy”
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief in a case concerning the meaning of “personal privacy.” EPIC urged the Justices to reject AT&T’s claim that its “personal privacy” prevents the public disclosure of records subject to the Freedom of Information Act. EPIC cited the commonly understood meaning of “personal privacy” in the…
Safeguarding privacy in the digital age
From the European Commission: In the age of the internet and globalisation, it’s getting harder to keep your personal details private. Shopping online or sharing photos and personal information on social networking sites such as Facebook have become part of daily life. While the EU’s existing rules on protecting personal information are among the strongest…
TSA and America’s Culture of Zero-Risk
An op-ed by Rick Forno, reproduced with permission: The lede on the DRUDGEREPORT most of Monday showed a Catholic nun being patted down at an airport security checkpoint, with the caption starkly declaring that “THE TERRORISTS HAVE WON.” He’s right. Ten years after 9/11, Americans who fly are facing a Faustian choice between subjecting themselves…