Lauren Weinstein blogs: Greetings. Here’s a “fun” question to think about as we get ready to close out 2009. With politicians clamoring for massive deployment of full body scanners at airports, how long do you imagine it will take before we start to see headlines like the title of this posting, inappropriately blaming the Internet…
Category: Surveillance
2nd Circuit Rejects Lawyers’ Petition for Records of Intercepted Calls
Mark Hamblett reports: The refusal of the National Security Agency to disclose whether conversations between lawyers and their clients at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility were intercepted has been upheld by a federal appeals court in Manhattan. Addressing questions of first impression, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday adopted a doctrine holding…
Pennsylvania Walmart Sued for Videotaping Employees, Customers in Bathroom
Nathalie Tadena reports: A Pennsylvania Walmart Supercenter videotaped employees and customers in a unisex bathroom, several former and current Walmart employees alleged in a lawsuit filed this week. Seven former and current employees from the Tire and Lube department at the Walmart in Easton, Pa., filed a lawsuit in county court against the Arkansas-based corporation…
Debate Over Full-Body Scans vs. Invasion of Privacy Flares Anew After Incident
John Schwartz reports: The technology exists to reveal objects hidden under clothes at airport checkpoints, and many experts say it would have detected the explosive packet carried aboard the Detroit-bound flight last week. But it has been fought by privacy advocates who say it is too intrusive, leading to a newly intensified debate over the…