John Wesley Hall Jr. of FourthAmendment.com provides a pointer to materials on the Comprehensive Drug Testing case involving major league baseball players that begins: In the Ninth Circuit’s controversial, from the government’s standpoint, Comprehensive Drug Testing case, the Solicitor General’s petition for real en banc rehearing is here and here. Anybody who is interested in…
Category: Surveillance
Cleared Dando suspect Barry George challenges surveillance order
Sandra Laville reports: Barry George, the man acquitted at a retrial of killing the BBC television presenter Jill Dando, is making an unprecedented legal challenge to stop the authorities keeping a watch on his movements. George, 48, begins a legal case in the high court against the Metropolitan police, claiming his human rights are being…
Privacy Challenges and Implications of an Electric “Smart Grid” System
Zack Kaldveer, Communications Director, Consumer Federation of California and author of the blog Privacy Revolt, has a commentary on the California Progress Report that provides an overview of the smart grid system and its privacy implications that could be a good overview for those first trying to understand the issue. It begins: A critically important…
AU: Police to have power to strip-search at random
Tom Reilly reports: Police will soon have sweeping powers to search people at random, including strip-search, even if there is no reasonable suspicion those targeted have done anything wrong. The ”stop and search” tactic is part of a law and order crackdown set to be passed by State Parliament, despite the Government conceding that the…