From EPIC.org: In testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security, EPIC President Marc Rotenberg urged Congress to halt the plan to deploy body scanners in the nation’s airports. “Based on the documents we’ve obtained, the views of experts, the concerns of American, and the extraordinary cost, Congress should suspend the program,” said Mr. Rotenberg….
Category: Surveillance
Police accessed 140,000 phone calls and texts last year
Tom Clifford reports: Police have defended intercepting or retrieving information from more than 140,000 calls and text messages last year and targeted critical politicians who have demanded the police stop for acting on “erroneous information,” but a lawyer has described the police action as “excessive state interference in the privacy of citizens” and a danger…
Fingerprint Submission Requirements Rule
From the Federal Register: [Federal Register: March 17, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 51)] [Notices] [Page 12803-12804] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr17mr10-107] NATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION AND PRIVACY COMPACT COUNCIL Fingerprint Submission Requirements Rule Authority: 42 U.S.C. 14616. AGENCY: National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact Council. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: Notice of the…
Fight Crime with a Universal DNA Database?
Ronald Bailey writes: Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a provocative op/ed by Yale law student Michael Seringhaus in which he advocated that the DNA profiles of every American be kept in a central forensic database. The goal of such a database is to help the police fight crime by better enabling them…