Vikram Dodd reports: A powerful committee of MPs is likely to hold a formal hearing into allegations that a government anti-extremism programme is being used to gather information on innocent Muslims. The home affairs select committee meets on Tuesday and will discuss widening its inquiry into the £140m Preventing Violent Extremism scheme, also known as…
Category: Surveillance
Jury’s $1.8 million verdict a call for privacy rights
Ameet Sachdev reports: In the summer of 2005 Kathy Lawlor’s dad showed her a white envelope he retrieved from his neighbor’s garbage can, deposited there by a man Lawlor suspected had been following her. “Probe” was typed in the return address field. Next to it was a picture of an eye that looked to Lawlor…
Govt continues to delay release of telecom lobbying documents
Richard Esguerra of EFF updates us as to developments over the past 48 hours: This evening (October 15), the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice filed yet another emergency motion with the Ninth Circuit, asking for a stay of the deadline to release telecom immunity lobbying documents, less than 24 hours before…
Kentucky DUI case questions search & seizure protections
Melissa Helton entered a conditional guilty plea to wanton murder and DUI charges that resulted from an investigation which involved a blood test when she was unconscious in a hospital. Police did not have a warrant to take Helton’s blood in the hospital that day. Helton appealed her DUI plea to argue that the practice…