Jennifer Radcliffe of the Houston Chronicle reports that RFID tags for tracking students is in use the Spring and Santa Fe school districts. Spring has been steadily expanding the system since December 2008. Currently, about 13,500 of the district’s 36,000 students have the upgraded badges, which are just slightly thicker than the average ID tag…
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More on FBI as “Keystone Kops” sending six to retrieve their found GPS transmitter
Over on FourthAmendment.com, John Wesley Hall follows up on his earlier post about the Afifi GPS case by responding, in part, to one of the questions I had raised as to whether the FBI had a warrant for the surveillance. Pretty much everyone’s assumed they didn’t, but John explains why they probably didn’t: One can…
Creepy factor: Hyatt guest claims she found male employee wearing her underwear
Here’s another example of where a privacy violation can cause emotional harm and distress. What a court will do with this, I have no idea, but see what you think. Ameet Sachdev reports: Dayanara Fernandez of Los Angeles says that when she walked into her room at the Hyatt in Deerfield this summer, she was…
If we protect victims’ identities, what about the accused’s?
Michael Bachelard reports on an issue in Victoria that has received attention in many countries: whether those suspected of sex crimes should have the same right to have their identities protected in any media coverage as those who are alleged victims of sex crimes. The rationale for protecting victims’ names and identities has always been…