Liz Potocsnak reports on a lawsuit arising from the seizure and urinalysis of a spectator in a Tennessee courtroom. The judge was eventually censored for his “routine practice” in his courtroom, and now the individual is suing: A judge in Dickson County, Tenn., had officers pull a spectator out of his courtroom “on a hunch,”…
Category: Surveillance
Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’
Simmons, Joshua L., Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’ (September 19, 2009). Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2009, No. 3, p. 950. The full-text article is available as a free download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1475524 Abstract: Your information is for sale, and the government is buying it at alarming…
U.S. security rules would break privacy laws, Canadian airlines contend
Jim Bronskill of the Canadian Press reports: Canada’s major airlines say they will be forced either to break privacy laws or to ignore new American air security rules unless the federal government comes up with a response to U.S. demands for passenger information. The National Airlines Council of Canada, which represents the four largest Canadian…
UK: Leicestershire police ‘strongly support’ DNA legislation
Leicestershire police has said it “strongly supports” clearer legislation on retaining innocent people’s DNA. Yet in the past year, the force refused 22 of 24 requests to remove records from its database. This is despite a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights which has said holding the DNA of innocent people indefinitely was…