Marshall Kirkpatrick writes: Geolocation is quickly emerging as a big new platform to build all kinds of cool services on top of. While there’s a whole lot of potential – there’s also growing concern about the privacy implications of this flush of data about where we are. Thus it’s timely that a committee of the…
Category: Surveillance
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski writes scathing dissent in Fourth Amendment case
When a judge called for United States v. Lemus to be reheard en banc, the majority of judges in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals did not vote to rehear the case. Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote an absolutely blistering dissent to that denial. With Judge Paez joining in the dissent, he wrote: This is…
Official: FBI probing Pa. school webcam spy case
MaryClaire Dale reports that the school spycam case has not been ratcheted up a notch: The FBI is investigating a Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly activating webcams inside students’ homes, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Friday. The FBI will explore whether Lower Merion School District…
How closely does the government watch the files on your web site?
Does the government need any warrant or additional legal authority to view or collect information from publicly available web sites? A recent DHS memo received some guffaws on mail lists where people wondered why DHS would need to issue detailed privacy impact memos or justification that it was reading sites that are publicly available to…