FourthAmendment.com alerts us to this report by Tony Bartelme: Last month, Herman Jacob took his daughter and her friend camping in the Francis Marion National Forest. While poking around for some firewood, Jacob noticed a wire. He pulled on it and followed it to a video camera and antenna. The camera didn’t have any markings…
Category: Surveillance
European Body Moves on Privacy Front
James Kanter reports: The European Commission is seeking the right for its citizens to sue in American courts if they believe that airline passenger data transmitted to the United States has been misused — part of a new bid to make protecting privacy compatible with fighting terror. At a meeting Thursday and Friday in Madrid,…
What TSA is doing
Stewart Baker writes: The press has been spending a lot of time on TSA’s new policy. This New York Times story is representative (I’ve linked to it here because it has the first ever MSM reference to Skating on Stilts). Despite all the attention, though, there’s a surprising lack of certainty about exactly what TSA…
We Can’t Tell You
The New York Times has an editorial about the ruling in the Al-Haramain case and how it’s time for an end to warrantless surveillance and the abuses of power by the previous administration: Senator Obama promised repeatedly in the 2008 campaign to reverse Mr. Bush’s many abuses of power. This was one of them. President…