Ali Winston reports that as a lawsuit concerning a stop based on an erroneous license plate reading goes to trial in California, privacy and accuracy concerns continue to grow. Documents obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting show that a leading maker of license-plate readers wants to merge the vehicle identification technology with other sources of identifying…
Category: Govt
11th Circuit: TSA May Read Your Documents At Checkpoints, Not Responsible for Assault by Its Screeners
TSA Out of Our Pants! writes: Last week, the 11th Circuit heard oral arguments in my case against the nude body scanners and pat-downs, but in the meantime, the judges in my other TSA case, challenging whether officers may: Read through your personal documents at checkpoints Threaten travelers with false arrest and forcible search Conduct retaliatory searches that last…
EFF to Court: U.S. Warrants Don’t Apply to Overseas Emails
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has urged a federal court to block a U.S. search warrant ordering Microsoft to turn over a customer’s emails held in an overseas server, arguing that the case has dangerous privacy implications for Internet users everywhere. The case started in December of last year, when a magistrate judge in New…
Treasury Discloses Limits on Bank-Data Sharing With Spy Agencies
Greg Farrell reports: The U.S. Treasury Department said it sets limits while allowing the nation’s intelligence agencies to access reports that banks file on suspicious or large money moves by customers, including information about Americans. The Treasury, saying it was responding to a public records request, released the protocol at the end of last week,…