The World Privacy Forum has issued a new report: New forms of sophisticated digital signage networks are being deployed widely by retailers and others in both public and private spaces. From simple people-counting sensors mounted on doorways to sophisticated facial recognition cameras mounted in flat video screens and end-cap displays, digital signage technologies are gathering…
Category: Surveillance
4 Arrested In Alleged Plot To Wiretap Senator’s Office
The Associated Press reports: A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office. Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was in the Democrat’s…
UK: 1,043 Ways For Government to Enter Your Home
Alexander Deane writes: … In July 2008, the UK Home Office published a list of 1,043 laws permitting state inspectors to enter people’s homes and premises private property without the consent of the owner or occupier and without a police escort. This was the first time that the full extent of the spread and proliferation…
UK: Lancashire County Council uses snooping powers
Melanie Wallwork reports: Snooping powers have been exercised hundreds of times by Lancashire County Council over the last five years. Cleaners who repeatedly failed to show up for work, and a care assistant who claimed too much on travel expenses, were among those caught through surveillance under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA). A…