Raphael G. Satter of the Associated Press reports: Internet cafe users in the British capital may want to watch what they download. Scotland Yard is advising administrators of public Web spaces to periodically poke through their customers’ files and keep an eye out for suspicious activity. The Metropolitan Police said Thursday that the initiative —…
Category: Surveillance
EFF to Press for New Privacy Protections Against Hidden Video Surveillance in Senate Hearing Monday
From EFF: On Monday, March 29, at 10 a.m., the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing in the Philadelphia federal courthouse on whether the federal electronic privacy laws need to be updated to better regulate secret video surveillance. Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston of the…
Wikileaks Editorial:U.S. must stop spying on WikiLeaks
Julian Assange writes: Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations. In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack on my compound there in 2007 is still unattributed) to an unsuccessful mass…
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