From EPIC.org: EPIC has filed a second FOIA lawsuit, demanding the release of the full resolution images captured by airport “digital strip search” machines. EPIC’s suit against the Department of Homeland Security also seeks records detailing air traveler complaints and security breaches that may have exposed data to unauthorized individuals. The TSA has called for mandatory use of the body scanners…
Category: Surveillance
Have You Been Subjected to Suspicionless Laptop Search or Seizure at the Border?
Jennifer Granick of EFF writes: … the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers is seeking potential plaintiffs for a lawsuit challenging suspicionless laptop searches. As a first step in this effort, NACDL is seeking to identify defense lawyers who have had their laptops searched at the border and are willing to serve as individual plaintiffs….
Police fight cellphone recordings
Daniel Rowinski reports: Simon Glik, a lawyer, was walking down Tremont Street in Boston when he saw three police officers struggling to extract a plastic bag from a teenager’s mouth. Thinking their force seemed excessive for a drug arrest, Glik pulled out his cellphone and began recording. Within minutes, Glik said, he was in handcuffs….
UK: Stop and search rules declared illegal
Richard James reports: The European court of human rights has ruled the controversial stop and search powers exercised by British police as illegal. The court ruled on Tuesday the powers introduced by the government under the Terrorism Act 2000 to stop people without grounds for suspicion violated article eight of the European convention on human…