Danielle Citron writes: Professor Margaret Hu’s important new article, “Biometric ID Cybersurveillance” (Indiana Law Journal), carefully and chillingly lays out federal and state government’s increasing use of biometrics for identification and other purposes. These efforts are poised to lead to a national biometric ID with centralized databases of our iris, face, and fingerprints. Such multimodal…
Category: Misc
No, it’s not always the government….
Yesterday, Twitter started to explode over a blog post by a Long Island woman who said law enforcement showed up at her home because she had Google searched pressure cookers, while her husband had searched for backpacks, and her son might have been reading up on the Boston bombing. It made for great fodder for…
A parody message to Massachusetts motorists
From a Joe Cadillic parody on Massachusetts’ Registry of Motor Vehicles Spying Agency (RMVSA) The RMVSA has a professionally-trained staff of dedicated public servants who could care less about your rights. Please remember that since 9/ll we’ve taken away more of your rights under the Patriot Act and given your pictures and drivers license information to…
‘Terms and Conditions May Apply’: The Death of Privacy
Lloyd Grove writes: The NSA’s eavesdropping on American citizens has been a matter of public record at least since December 2005, when The New York Times reported that the super-secret agency had launched a domestic warrantless wiretapping program, of debatable legality, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Yet it hasn’t, until now, been a widely held concern, maybe…