There have been a few stories recently mentioning concerns about Dutch passports and the database of fingerprints for passports. One story (only poorly translated by free online translators) suggests that a privacy group, Privacy First, is taking the government to court over the use of the stored fingerprints for criminal investigatory and not just passport…
Category: Surveillance
Automakers Back Black Boxes, Brake Overrides
Shane McGlaun writes: Privacy advocates believe that any monitoring of a person’s driving habits or habits of their daily lives is an invasion of privacy, and many consumers agree with this. There have been flight data recorders or black boxes on commercial aircraft for years to help determine the cause of a crash, and no…
University Plans to Install Electronic Sensors to Track Class Attendance
Karen Wilkinson reports: A plan to electronically track attendance at an Arizona university is being framed as a way to encourage going to class and participation, but privacy experts and some students are wary the technology could become a security and privacy concern. Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, will start using “proximity card readers”…
Data transfers to USA: Parliament states its terms
From the EU Parliament: MEPs voted on two resolutions in Brussels today, one on the opening of negotiations for an EU-US agreement to provide the US Treasury Department with bank data to combat terrorism, the other on the launch of negotiations for Passenger Name Record (PNR) agreements with the United States, Australia and Canada, also…