Alice Lipowicz reports: The Homeland Security Department has agreed to replace its existing information technology support for the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP) with a more effective system, according to a new report from DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner. The support system is an existing system of the Transportation Security Administration. The system was expanded…
Category: Surveillance
Sweden: Wiretapping law prompts heated Riksdag debate
Parliamentary debate kicked off in Sweden’s Riksdag on Wednesday, as politicians once again argued over a controversial signals intelligence law. “Are we really, in a democratic country, going to implement a system which entails wire tapping the masses?” the Left Party’s Alice Åström asked her colleagues in the Riksdag, according to the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD)…
Federal court denies govt attempt to delay release of telecom records. Again.
Kurt Opsahl of EFF writes: Today a federal district court denied the government’s latest emergency motion asking for a 30-day stay in last Friday’s deadline to release records relating to telecom lobbying over last year’s debate over immunity for corporate participation in government spying. The new deadline is October 16, at 4 p.m. Pacific time….
Does a cheek swab for DNA require a warrant?
No, says the Indiana Court of Appeals in Garcia-Torres v. State: After comparing cheek swabs with other searches requiring only reasonable suspicion, we conclude that the DNA sample collection technique at issue here, although minimally invasive, is also one of those limited searches that requires only reasonable suspicion and may therefore be conducted without a…