Valentina Pop reports: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has called EU parliament chief Jerzy Buzek to voice concern over a vote due next Tuesday in which MEPs could scrap a deal allowing American investigators to track down terrorist funding via European bank transactions. Ms Clinton’s late-night phonecall to Mr Buzek comes on top of…
Category: Surveillance
EU blasts Sweden over failure to store data
Peter Vinthagen Simpson reports: The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about their customers’ phone calls and emails. The European Union directive, known as the Data Retention Directive, was approved by Brussels in March 2006, but Sweden has yet to implement…
SC legislators approve warrantless searches
The Associated Press reports: South Carolina legislators have tweaked a bill allowing officers to conduct warrantless searches by requiring them to first verify the person is on probation or parole. The House Judiciary Committee approved the measure on Tuesday that allows officers to bypass going to a judge for a warrant before searching people on…
Police want backdoor to Web users’ private data
Declan McCullagh writes: Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant. But cybercrime investigators are frustrated by the speed of traditional methods of faxing, mailing, or e-mailing companies these documents. They’re pushing for the creation of a national Web interface linking police computers…