Kim Zetter reports: Police in Florida have, at the request of the U.S. Marshals Service, been deliberately deceiving judges and defendants about their use of a controversial surveillance tool to track suspects, according to newly obtained emails. At the request of the Marshals Service, the officers using so-called stingrays have been routinely telling judges, in…
Category: Govt
Congress Decides This Week Whether to Shut the NSA Backdoor: Here’s How You Can Help
Nadia Kayyali writes: The NSA may seem like an intimidating giant, but it has a serious Achilles’ heel— the enormous budget it claims from taxpayer dollars every year. While change to the actual words of the laws that govern NSA surveillance seems to be a difficult task, a group of representatives have decided to take the battle to…
State Legislators Discussing Laws That Will Put Law Enforcement Surveillance Cameras Inside Private Businesses
Missed posting this while waiting for DNS propagation, but thankfully, Joe Cadillic reminded me. Tim Cushing writes: The government does enjoy installing cameras pretty much everywhere it can do so with a minimum of complaints. If it thinks there might be some controversy, it just buries the details until after the fact. Eugene Volokh has a roundup of new places state governments…
Postal Service Explores Sensors, Data Collection Via ‘Vehicles, Mailboxes, Machines, Letter Carriers’
Jeryl Bier reports: The U.S. Postal Service is seeking a company to help develop a program called the Internet of Postal Things. The Risk Analysis Research Center (RARC), part of the Postal Service’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), is looking for a supplier “who possesses expertise and critical knowledge of the Internet of Things, data…