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…
Category: Govt
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…
Privacy, accuracy concerns as license-plate readers expand
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…