From The Associated Press: Starting next year, dozens of states will begin knitting together databases to watch prescription drug abuse, from powerful painkillers to diet pills. With federal money and prodding, states are being asked to sign onto an agreement allowing police, pharmacies and physicians to check suspicious prescription pill patterns from Nevada to North…
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Privacy Rights Inc.
Dahlia Lithwick has a commentary on Slate that expresses the same points I’ve made on this blog in the past. I couldn’t agree with her more: Once upon a time, you had to be a person to assert a right to personal privacy. But more and more it seems that the demand for personal privacy…
Holding Nokia Responsible for Surveilling Dissidents in Iran
Eddan Katz of EFF issues this call to action in a case mentioned previously on this blog: EFF has long pointed out that technology companies are complicit in human rights violations when they knowingly sell customized human surveillance technologies to repressive regimes that are then used to target people for arrest, torture, and disappearance. Now a…
“Big Brother Gone Mad” UK-style: Council spends £29,000 on ‘bin snoopers’ to check your waste
Catherine Oakes reports: A council has employed two people to “snoop” inside bins in a move that residents have branded as “big brother gone mad”. The “recycling promotion officers” are tasked with checking what is being chucked away in South Derbyshire. The pair lift the lid on bins and have peek inside before jotting down…