Marisa Taylor of McClatchy Newspapers has an article on how Obama’s administration is following in the same secretive and civil liberties-busting footsteps of the Bush administration: Although the FBI has acknowledged it improperly obtained thousands of Americans’ phone records for years, the Obama administration continues to assert that the bureau can obtain them without any…
Category: Surveillance
UK: CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones
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,…
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…