Josh Gerstein writes: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) is pressing the Obama Administration to give the National Security Agency more power to oversee the privately-owned portions of the Internet. During an appropriations hearing Thursday, Mikulski pressed Attorney General Eric Holder for answers about legal opinions the government may be drafting to address the extent to which…
Category: Surveillance
Suspicious Package: TSA Worker Jailed After Junk Joke
Willard Shepard and Brian Hamacher report: Perhaps the new airport body scanners are a bit too revealing. A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after police say he attacked a colleague who’d made fun of his small genitalia after he walked through one of the new high-tech security scanners during a recent…
Virginia Murder Spurs Calls for Tracking of Violent Students
Curtis Eichelberger, Janet Lorin and Oliver Staley report: College administrators, students and safety advocates in the U.S. say they are hoping the death of a University of Virginia lacrosse player will lead to the adoption of new methods for tracking violent students. Security On Campus Inc., a King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, nonprofit advocating college safety,…
No Privacy Invasion for Noisy Neighbor Recording
Jeff Gorman reports: A Wisconsin couple did not invade their neighbors’ privacy by placing a $50 recorder from Radio Shack on the windowsill in order to bust them for being too noisy, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled. Andrea Burns and James Barr complained to police that their neighbors, Karen and Barry Poston, were harassing…