From EPIC: EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission over the agency’s failure to disclose to EPIC information about the FTC’s decision to end the Google Spy-Fi investigation. EPIC is specifically seeking documents that the FTC widely circulated to members of Congress and their staff that provide the basis for the…
Category: Govt
UK: Bradford Council settles with former Nab Wood School worker ‘put under surveillance’
Steve Wright reports: A former school worker, who claimed she was spied on by Bradford Council when it was wrongly suspected she was moonlighting while on sick leave, has settled a claim for damages outside Court. Shamim Khan, 47, of Heaton, Bradford, had brought the claim against the Council for psychiatric injury caused by unlawful surveillance…
Domestic Intelligence Surveillance Grew in 2010
Steven Aftergood writes: By every available measure, the level of domestic intelligence surveillance activity in 2010 increased from the year before, according to a new Justice Department report to Congress on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. “During calendar year 2010, the Government made 1,579 applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (hereinafter ‘FISC’) for authority…
DVLA helping top parking firms despite code breaches
The DVLA is giving drivers’ names and addresses to some private parking firms despite breaches of the industry’s voluntary code, the BBC has learned. The DVLA’s rules restrict access to the data to companies complying with the British Parking Association code. Breaches include overstating powers by threatening fines and penalties and failing to handle complaints…