I missed an op-ed by Bob Herbert in the New York Times on March 1 that is worthy of note here: From 2004 through 2009, in a policy that has gotten completely out of control, New York City police officers stopped people on the street and checked them out nearly three million times, frisking and…
Category: Surveillance
MEPs ask for more time before full vote on PNR data transfer
Members of the European Parliament (MEP) have been asked not to torpedo a long-standing agreement on sending air passengers’ personal details to US authorities to leave time for a new deal to be negotiated. Passenger name records (PNR) are sets of 19 pieces of information that US authorities demand on every air traveller entering that…
Some Brits fear garbage-spying microchips
Raphael G. Satter of the Associated Press reports: Monitored by millions of cameras and spied on by a secretive domestic intelligence network, Britons could be forgiven for feeling up in arms over the latest threat to their privacy: Intelligent garbage bins that can monitor how much they throw out. Although the technology is already nearly…
Two Lower Merion School District IT workers placed on leave
Joseph Tanfani reports: Two information-technology employees at Lower Merion School District have been placed on leave while an investigation continues into the use of remote surveillance software on student laptops. The two people authorized to activate the software – Michael Perbix, a network technician, and Carol Cafiero, information systems coordinator – were put on paid…