Caroline Spelman, the Shadow Communities and Local Government Secretary, has called for a ban on state snoopers and clipboard inspectors from entering homes. The Conservatives will significantly rein back the powers of Whitehall bureaucrats, quango officials and town hall snoopers to enter people’s homes. “Gordon Brown’s pledge to scale back powers of entry was a…
Category: Surveillance
UK: Kent Police faces legal threat over ANPR cameras
Kent Police could face a flood of High Court cases after being accused of breaking privacy laws by storing photographs of innocent motorists. Campaigners from the civil rights group Liberty have vowed to support anyone who wants to take legal action against the force after a report by the National Policing Improvement Agency revealed that…
Bringing US Surveillance Laws Into the 21st Century
Scott M. Fulton, III writes: You may think that your communications with other individuals over the Internet may be protected from unreasonable use by U.S. law enforcement without subpoena and due process. The truth is, judges have been loosening the interpretation of a 1986 wiretapping law, almost pretending that it did apply to present circumstances….
ABC News Investigation: USA Swimming Coaches Molested, Secretly Taped Dozens of Teen Swimmers
Megan Chuchmach and Avni Patel report In a sex abuse scandal that some victims compare to what happened in the Catholic Church, at least 36 swimming coaches have been banned for life by the USA Swimming organization over the last 10 years because of sexual misconduct with teenagers they coached. […] One coach, Brian Hindson…