Althia Raj reports: OTTAWA — The federal privacy watchdog has rejected Passport Canada’s plan to embed fingerprints and iris scans in electronic passports. In a review of the project, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner told the passport office not to include new biometric information on a radio frequency chip encoded in e-passports. “The more…
Category: Surveillance
Feds: Orlando company sells dangerous spyware
Amy L. Edwards reports: … the Federal Trade Commission is targeting an Orlando company that sells a popular keylogging spyware called RemoteSpy, a product the company says is the best on the market for getting into people’s computers without their knowledge or approval. The FTC’s action against CyberSpy Software marks the first time the federal…
Court: TSA went too far in searching luggage
FourthAmendment.com brings us news of a court opinion that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees engaged in an unreasonable search of a passenger’s luggage and that the child pornography they uncovered should be suppressed. In United States v. McCarty, the court held: Despite the testimony indicating that the TSA employees searched the photographs solely to determine…
Editorial: Speech and privacy
The following editorial appeared in the Providence Journal: It may have been mere incompetence, but it is chilling that the Obama Justice Department sent a subpoena for an undeclared reason to an Internet news site, Indymedia.us, demanding records of all traffic to that site on June 25, 2008. Even more ominously, it demanded “all other…