A move to allow Scottish police forces to hold the DNA of innocent people for up to six years has been thrown out by a committee of MSPs. Labour’s amendment to the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill would have brought Scots law in line with the rest of the UK. But the proposal was…
Category: Surveillance
Police seize Gizmodo reporter’s computers after writing about unreleased iPhone (update 7)
Brian Stelter and Nick Bilton report: Gawker Media said on Monday that computers belonging to one of its editors, Jason Chen, were seized from his home on Friday as part of what appeared to be an investigation into the sale of a next-generation iPhone. One of Gawker’s blogs, Gizmodo, published articles last week about the…
The cloud and the future of the Fourth Amendment
David A. Couillard comments: In mid-April, a coalition of privacy groups filed a brief in federal district court in Colorado, defending Yahoo against attempts by the federal government to obtain the contents of Yahoo Mail messages without first obtaining a warrant. One month earlier, the Justice Department filed a 17-page brief arguing that Yahoo Mail…
Feds Say Judge Hampering Webcam Spy Probe
David Kravets reports: Prosecutors are claiming a federal judge is hampering a criminal investigation into a webcam scandal at a Philadelphia suburban school district. The evidence prosecutors are seeking is connected to a federal civil lawsuit in which plaintiff’s lawyers claim the Lower Merion School District secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using…