Paul Lewis reports: Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the ”routine” monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. The arms manufacturer BAE Systems, which produces a range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for war zones,…
Category: Surveillance
CA7 won’t follow majority in Comprehensive Drug Testing
John Wesley Hall Jr. writes: In a child pornography case, the Seventh Circuit finds that a search warrant for evidence of video voyeurism sought in defendant’s house did not limit the government from using its software package to look for all picture and video files on defendant’s computer. Child pornography was found, too. If the…
European Union Rejects US Demands on Body Scanners
From EPIC.org: EU President Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba announced today that European countries would not rush to install body scanners as the United States has urged. He said that there will first be studies to determine whether the devices “are effective, do not harm health, and do not violate privacy.” The European countries have agreed that…
EFF Plans Appeal of Jewel v. NSA Warrantless Wiretapping Case
A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a case from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&T customers challenging the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of millions of ordinary Americans’ phone calls and emails. “We’re deeply disappointed in the judge’s ruling,” said EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. “This ruling robs innocent telecom…