John Oates had this news report in the The Register earlier this week: The Israeli Knesset has voted in favour of a bill for a compulsory biometric database of all citizens. The Biometrics Database Law passed the Knesset 40 votes in favour to 11 against. A big row over privacy forced the bill back to…
Category: Surveillance
In France, your employer can read files on your computer if you don’t tag them as personal
Cecile Martin writes: By a decision of October 21, 2009 (n°07-43877), the French Supreme Court ruled that files created by an employee on a computer issued by his employer for work purposes were presumed professional unless the employee identified them clearly as personal. This being said, the Court concluded that the employer was entitled to…
How Easy Is It For The Police To Get GPS Data From Your Phone?
Justin Elliot has more on the issue of how easy it is — or isn’t — for law enforcement to obtain your GPS data. The issue grabbed a lot of attention last week after graduate student Chris Soghoian published some information suggesting that Sprint had gotten 8 million requests last year for customer data. Sprint…
The Vancouver Statement of Surveillance, Security and Privacy Researchers about the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
A group of researchers who participated in the Surveillance Games Research Workshop November 20-21 in Vancouver, B.C. have drafted a joint statement on security, surveillance and mega-events signed by international experts specializing in these areas. As researchers from Canada and the wider world, who are conducting research on the global security dynamics of mega-events, we…