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…
Category: Surveillance
Laptops open to warrantless government snooping
Bob Barr comments: Laptop computers and other personal electronic devices such as cell phones, I-phones and Blackberries are increasingly attractive to government agents because of the vast amounts of data users store on them. Unfortunately, in the absence of federal law protecting them from government searches without warrants or even reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing, federal…
Local computer security expert investigates police practices
This is just too cool…. a security expert used his skills to expose the fact that the police had not deleted a videotape they had made of him being arrested for obstructing justice when he refused to give his name when asked by a police officer. Eric Nalder tells the tale on SeattlePI. Enjoy! Via…
NZ: Campaign to Stop the Search and Surveillance Bill
A national day of protest against the Search and Surveillance Bill will be held on Saturday, 24th April. Simultaneous protests will be held in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. “It is time to get out on the street and show our disgust with this Bill,” Batch Hales, spokesperson for the Wellington Stop the Bill group said….