Donald Gilliland has dug into the outrageous tracking by Pennsylvania’s Office of Homeland Security and/or their contractor, the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, of groups engaged in lawful, peaceful protests: It turns out the homeland security office or its private consultant were doing more than just monitoring law-abiding citizens. They were comparing environmental activists to…
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Unraveling Privacy as Corporate Strategy
Scott Peppet writes: The biometric technologies firm Hoyos (previously Global Rainmakers Inc.) recently announced plans to test massive deployment of iris scanners in Leon, Mexico, a city of over a million people. They expect to install thousands of the devices, some capable of picking out fifty people per minute even at regular walking speeds. At first the…
Why did DOJ argue that consumers read and understand privacy policies? Are they ignorant or just unethical?
Over on Slight Paranoia, Chis Soghoian takes the DOJ out to the woodshed for its brief in In the Matter of the Application of the United States of America for an Order Authorizing the Use Of a Pen Register and Trap and Trace Device and Authorizing Release of Subscriber and Other Information. In that brief,…
Log Cabin Republicans ask SCOTUS to lift stay that keeps DADT in effect
Lyle Denniston reports: A gay rights group, renewing its challenge to the military’s “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy against gays in the services, asked the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon to block that ban as the test case over its constitutionality moves on in lower federal courts. Specifically, the Log Cabin Republicans urged the Court to…