Jason Hancock reports: Instead of building a border fence to help stem illegal immigration, the U.S. government should implant microchips into immigrants before deportation, much like what is done with pets, Pat Bertroche, an Urbandale physician and one of seven Republicans running in the 3rd District Congressional primary, said Monday. While speaking at a Tama…
Category: Surveillance
Encryption Can’t Stop The Wiretapping Boom
Andy Greenberg discusses the newly report on wiretapping, with a focus on how often encryption became an issue: As encryption technologies have outpaced the mathematical methods of breaking crypto schemes, law enforcement has feared for years that scrambled messages between evildoers (or law-breaking activists) would thwart their snooping. But it seems that either lawbreakers aren’t…
CAAF: No general exception to Fourth Amendment in living quarters in combat zone
From FourthAmendment.com: The Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces held today there is no general Fourth Amendment exception to military quarters in a combat zone. The court declined to rely on the military judge’s alternate ruling “that Appellant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his living quarters.” Under the facts of this case,…
Privacy, Crime and Security Online Police Wiretapping Jumps 26 Percent
Ryan Singel writes: The number of wiretaps authorized by state and federal judges in criminal investigations jumped 26 percent from 2008 to 2009, according to a report released Friday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Courts authorized 2,376 criminal wiretap orders in 2009, with 96 percent targeting mobile phones in drug cases, according to the report. Federal…