Michael Boldin writes: The federal government investigated the federal government and determined there was no way for the federal government to determine if the federal government did anything wrong without jeopardizing the federal government’s federally protected secrets. This may not be the best way to fight unconstitutional, warrantless, dragnet surveillance. You can access the podcast…
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Police Use Lexis Nexis Facial Recognition To Identify Your Family And Friends
Joe Cadillic writes: What is it going to take for Americans to realize that law enforcement has become an extension of Big Brother? All across the country, police officers are secretly using facial recognition to identify neighbors and people of interest. Police already have a history of abusing criminal record searches like CORI. […] Last…
MSD fraud investigations “intrusive, excessive and inconsistent with legal requirements” – NZ Privacy Commissioner
An Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) inquiry has found the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) systematically misused its investigatory powers while pursuing benefit fraud, unjustifiably intruding on the privacy of many beneficiaries. The inquiry found MSD’s exercise of its information gathering powers to be inconsistent with legal requirements under the Social Security Act 1964…
Government access to airline PNR data challenged in German courts
Seen on Papers, Please! Complaints filed today in German courts and administrative complaints to data protection authorities in Austria challenge government access to and use and retention of Passenger Name Record data (commercial airline reservation records) as a violation of fundamental rights guaranteed by European Union, German, and Austrian law Read more on Papers, Please!