I love it! Jessica Ware of The Local reports: A German artist has created a pixellated balaclava, perfect for confusing street cameras in a nation where mistrust of public surveillance is widespread even as the appetite for Facebook is unabated. Martin Backes spoke to The Local. Backes, a digital media artist among many other things,…
Category: Misc
Introduction: Symposium – William Rehnquist’s Fourth Amendment
Thomas K. Clancy has an article available on SSRN, Introduction: Symposium – William Rehnquist’s Fourth Amendment. Here’s the abstract: William Rehnquist served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from September 26, 1986 to September 3, 2005. During that period, he wrote an astonishing number of majority opinions on the Fourth Amendment, totaling in all…
Privacy’s Memory Lane: From Furor to Fail in Eight Years
Stewart Baker writes: Privacy groups put much of their effort into attacking new technologies for a reason. They’re afraid that, once we see a technology in action, we won’t be scared by its hypothetical risks, while its benefits will be easier to assess. Once that happens, imposing new privacy laws gets a lot harder. To…
Are biometric ID tools evil?
Mike Elgan writes: Moss Bluff Elementary School in Lake Charles, La., wanted to speed up the cafeteria line and reduce errors in lunch accounting. So the school bought a Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric ID system, which has a scanner that reads the unique patterns of blood vessels in a human palm, enabling a positive ID, much like…