Ben Bain reports: The Justice Department plans to have a nationwide program to allow law enforcement officials from participating agencies to access data on each other’s unclassified systems, a senior department technology official said today. Jeremy Warren, Justice’s chief technology officer, said the program would use a federated identity management approach to let officials use…
Category: Surveillance
Portable Fingerprint Scanners
Morgan Fogarty reports: They cost between $6,000 and $8,000 each, but the time they could save patrol officers is invaluable. Portable fingerprint scanners mean the days of lying to an officer about who you are are over. […] The ACLU has voiced concerns that the scanners could lead to an invasion of privacy. Miller says…
In: Outlook reveals case of phone tapping by UPA govt.
Vikas Mehta reports: Outlook India magazine has revealed sensational information of phone tapping in its edition where UPA government has tapped phone of four top politician of the nation to seek confidential information. The four politicians are Congress leader Digvijay Singh, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, NCP leader Sharad Pawar and CPI-M leader Prakash Karat,…
Za: ‘Drug cops phone calls acceptable’
Mfundekelwa Mkhulisi reports: The transcript of a telephone conversation between West Rand senior officers and drug dealers will be used as evidence in the trial, the Johannesburg high court ruled yesterday. Judge Nico Coetzee did not give reasons for his decision. Defence lawyers had argued that monitoring and intercepting the phone calls between Colonel Dumisani…