Nadia Moharib reports: Police have laid a criminal charge against a former employee at a popular high-end restaurant who is accused of surreptitiously filming people in a washroom. Steven Craig Smith, 36, was charged with unlawfully making a video recording — a voyeurism charge — stemming from a May 2, 2010 incident. Police allege Smith…
Category: Surveillance
Powerless privacy watchdog ‘concerned’ about new U.S. airline security rules
Sarah Schmidt reports: Canada’s privacy watchdog has “concerns” about new American security rules that will require Canadian airlines to give personal information of passengers flying over the United States to the U.S. government, but there is nothing Ottawa can do about it, parliamentarians were told Tuesday. “There is a limit that is beyond us —…
EPIC Opposes Efforts of National Intelligence Director to Limit Privacy Act
From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed comments with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in response to a Federal Register notice and aproposed rulemaking to establish fourteen new databases. The DNI is seeking to exempt portions of these systems from key protections in the Privacy Act of 1974. EPIC said that this proposal…
Spy-cam suit family drops plan for class-action damages
John P. Martin reports: The Penn Valley family whose lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District launched a firestorm over the district’s use of webcams to track student laptops has dropped its plans to seek class-action damages. In court filings made public Wednesday, the lawyer for Harriton High School sophomore Blake Robbins and his parents…