The Guardian has a good summary of a limited investigation conducted by the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Sara Thornton QPM, into the public relations disaster which was the West Midlands Police Project Champion. This was a Labour government approved and funded plan to literally create CCTV Camera and Automatic Number Plate Recognition enforced…
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In the Supreme Court on Wednesday: free speech vs. privacy
I’ve often said that whenever I hear the words “balance” and “privacy” in the same sentence, I shudder because I know that privacy will lose out against whatever it’s being balanced against. In Snyder v. Phelps, although my heart aches for the families of those who died in service of our country, I think that…
Senate passes bill to limit access to SSN
Before they fled Washington early, the Senate managed to pass S.3789, the Social Security Number Protection Act of 2010. The bill, which had been introduced by Senator Feinstein, is designed to reduce identity theft and has two key provisions: (a) It prohibits governmental agencies from using individuals’ Social Security Numbers on any checks cut by the…
SCOTUS argument preview: Personal privacy
Lyle Denniston discusses the National Aeronautics and Space Administration v. Nelson case that is scheduled for oral argument on Tuesday. The Supreme Court will explore the concept of “informational privacy” — that is, protection of private and personal facts about an individual — in the context of government background checks. The case of National Aeronautics…