Laura Jehl and Stephanie Malaska write about the IRS Coinbase case. If you didn’t follow it or understand its implications, their article may help you get quickly up to speed. Here’s a snippet: ….. A recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on these actions has brought issues of…
Category: Govt
New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices
One of my go-to sites for information on travelling, surveillance, and dealing with Customs & Border Patrol or TSA issues is Papers, Please! I wish to heck they had posted some good news for us, but it sounds like things have continued to get worse instead of better: But the new CBP policy stretches the government’s…
Aadhaar details available for Rs 500? UIDAI says ‘no data breach’
For years, I have posted analyses and critiques of India’s Aadhaar identification system. In recent years the reports of breaches involving the data have increased somewhat, but each time the government has either denied or down-played the significance of any incident. There’s been another one, it seems. So when I saw a rash of media…
DHS Announces Program To Illegally Scan Our Faces
Tyler Durden reports: As TSA agents continue to prove their incompetence in the “War on Terror,” the Department of Homeland Security is now allocating $1 billion in taxpayer funding to create a facial recognition program that will illegally scan Americans’ faces. A study conducted by Georgetown Law’s Center for Privacy and Technology looked at the…