Larry Neumeister reports: A civil rights lawyer asked a federal appeals court Friday to restore a lawsuit challenging a law that lets the United States eavesdrop on overseas conversations. A government lawyer disagreed, saying a lower court got it right. The verbal tug-of-war proceeded before a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of…
Category: Surveillance
Spam Suspect Uses Google Docs, FBI Happy
Kevin Poulsen reports: FBI agents targeting alleged criminal spammers last year obtained a trove of incriminating documents from a suspect’s Google Docs account, in what appears to be the first publicly acknowledged search warrant benefiting from a suspect’s reliance on cloud computing. The warrant, issued August 21 in the Western District of New York, targeted…
Controlling RFID tags to protect privacy
Nick Barber reports: A researcher is working on technology he hopes will be able to control RFID tags and protect private information. “We are building our own RFID cards and adding features to them to make it visible and noticeable when someone is accessing the information,” Nicolai Marquardt, a Ph.D. student at the University of…
Now being a skeptic will expose you to police investigation?
Donna Bowater reports: The university embroiled in the scandal over leaked climate change emails has sparked outrage by handing the personal details of climate change sceptics (sic) to police. The University of East Anglia claimed it had been deluged with requests from sceptics under the Freedom of Information Act shortly before hacked emails were published…