Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University and the author of “The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age,” discusses why he thinks the screening procedures used by TSA are constitutional. He writes, in part: In a 2006 opinion for the Us .S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, then-Judge…
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Colorado Lawyer Files Injunction Against Janet Napolitano and TSA
Chris of InformationLiberation reports that Colorado lawyer, Gary Fielder, has filed for a permanent restraining order in federal district court against Janet Napolitano, John Pistole, the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA: Attorney Fielder made headlines earlier this year when he refused to go through a naked body scanner installed at a Colorado courthouse….
Jp: ‘Leaked MPD data’ out as book
This breach, originally mentioned on my companion blog at databreaches.net, just gets worse and worse: A Tokyo publishing house has released a book containing what are believed to be Metropolitan Police Department antiterrorism documents that were leaked onto the Internet last month. Released by Dai-San Shokan Thursday, the book contains the personal information of Muslim…
TalkTalk’s plan to develop malware warning system raises privacy hackles
Back in September, I linked to a number of news stories in the U.K. about how TalkTalk had become the talk of the privacy community for trialing a program that tracked its users’ web browsing. The purpose of the tracking was to develop a malware system that would warn its customers when they clicked on a…