Cory Doctorow writes: In this leaked, six-page email, Richard Mollet, the Director of Public Affairs for the British Phonographic Institute (the UK’s record-industry lobbyists), sets out the BPI’s strategy for ramming through the Digital Economy Bill, a sweeping, backwards reform to UK copyright law that will further sacrifice privacy and due process in the name…
Category: Surveillance
Judge Rules DOJ Unlawfully Recorded Renzi’s Calls
Mike Scarcella writes: The Justice Department unlawfully recorded privileged phone calls between former Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) and his lawyers during an insurance fraud investigation, a federal magistrate judge in Arizona ruled Thursday in recommending the recordings be suppressed. Magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco found that prosecutors made false statements to the supervising judge regarding the…
High court rules a homeless shelter is a home — in privacy terms
Martin Finucane reports: A homeless shelter is a person’s home, at least when it comes to privacy protections under the state and federal constitutions, the state’s highest court ruled today. The Supreme Judicial Court [of Massachusetts] ruled in the case of a juvenile who was living with his mother in a Roxbury homeless shelter in…
Mobile that allows bosses to snoop on staff developed
Michael Fitzpatrick reports: Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff. Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks even the tiniest movement of the user and beams the information back to HQ. It works by analysing…