Frances Gibb comments: All’s fair in love — and divorce. Or is it? It may surprise those unfamiliar with acrimonious divorce battles that courts condone a degree of DIY detective work. If someone suspects a spouse is lying about his or her financial affairs, courts will approve the secret rummaging through of papers to find…
Category: Surveillance
EPIC Posts TSA Documents on Body Scanners
From EPIC.org: EPIC has posted more than 250 pages of documents it obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit concerning body scanners. The documents, released by the Department of Homeland Security, reveal that Whole Body Imaging machines can record, store, and transmit digital strip search images of Americans. This contradicts assurances made by the TSA….
UK: Businessman is arrested in front of wife and son… for ‘anti-gipsy’ email that he didn’t even write
James Millbank reports: A wealthy businessman was arrested at home in front of his wife and young son over an email which council officials deemed ‘offensive’ to gipsies – but which he had not even written. The email, concerning a planning appeal by a gipsy, included the phrase: ‘It’s the ‘do as you likey’ attitude…
Pirate Party protests ‘naked’ scanners in their underpants
Scantily clad Pirate Party supporters demonstrated over the weekend at several German airports to show their opposition to controversial “naked” scanners planned for security checks. Despite the frigid temperatures outside, the protesters assembled nearly naked groups at airports in Berlin, Frankfurt and Düsseldorf on Sunday afternoon. The participants stripped down to their underpants, marching behinds…