Nat Hentoff writes: Many Americans may not remember, if they ever knew, that toward the end of the Bush administration, FBI Director Robert Mueller and then Attorney General Michael Mukasey so greatly expanded the “Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations” that now, in Barack Obama’s presidency, we have essentially returned to the reign of J. Edgar…
Category: Govt
UT: Feds asked to investigate privacy breach in immigrant list
Lois M. Collins reports: Utah individuals and advocacy organizations want regional Food Stamp and Medicaid program bosses to respond publicly to last month’s release of a list of immigrants that contained private information. The advocates want the federal program to offer the state training on federal privacy laws. The “list,” which was sent to media,…
DARPA Releases Privacy Guidelines For R&D
Elizabeth Montalbano reports: The technology-research arm of the U.S. military has released a new set of privacy principles to guide all of its future R&D projects. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) new principles are aimed at ensuring that any programs that may raise privacy issues are “designed and implemented in a responsible and…
UK: Tayside council spies launched 250 missions
Ryan Crighton reports: Councils in the north-east and Tayside have been using snooping laws to spy on residents almost 400 times in two years, it can be revealed. Covert CCTV cameras, bugging devices and spies have all been employed by local authorities looking to tackle tax cheats, noisy neighbours and rogue retailers. But details obtained…