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…
Category: Surveillance
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…
Facebook asks: Where the bloody hell are you?
aturner writes on the Brisbane Times DigiHub blog: Do you really want Facebook and Twitter giving away your location? Location-based services have been the Next Big Thing for years, but the boom in GPS-enabled smartphones has really enabled the technology to take off. Both Facebook and Twitter are preparing to jump on the geo-spatial bandwagon,…