Erica Peterson broke: Despite the fact that West Virginia’s population is about 95 percent white, a recent study by the state Division of Criminal Justice Services found that minority drivers in West Virginia are 1.5 times more likely to be stopped by police than white drivers. And once those drivers are stopped, minority drivers are…
Category: Surveillance
Contents of Canada’s secret no-fly list exposed
Colin Freeze reports: For the first time Canadians are getting a peek into the top-secret binders containing various versions of the country’s no-fly list, thanks to an intelligence analyst who allegedly went AWOL and took the manual with her. The details – including references to “data sheets” kept on potential terrorists and “emergency directions” to…
MO: Parents accuse Springfield schools of civil rights violation
Cory de Vera reports: City Councilman Doug Burlison and his wife Mellony are asking the American Civil Liberties Union to help them stop the apparent practice of locking down Springfield schools to randomly search students for drugs. […] According to the letter from the ACLU, Central High was locked down around 10 a.m. April 22….
Patriot Act reality check and Canadian authorities’ similar powers
Canadian privacy lawyer David T.S. Fraser blogs: I had the honour of being invited to speak to the Canadian Bar Association’s Alberta branch earlier this week about cross-border privacy issues. We have had to deal with them rather acutely in Nova Scotia since the passage of the Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act (PIIDPA), which…