The UK is to share fingerprint information with Canada and Australia, with the US and New Zealand to follow soon, the Home Office said today. The collaboration will make it easier to detect people with criminal histories in other countries, speed up deportations and establish previously unknown identities, the Home Office said. The new data-sharing…
Category: Surveillance
Judge rejects challenge to overseas wiretap law
A judge rejected a challenge to a law letting the United States eavesdrop on overseas conversations Thursday, saying fears by Americans that their conversations will be monitored and their rights violated were ”purely subjective.” U.S. District Judge John Koeltl ruled that the latest version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could not be challenged by…
Twitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that the service will soon get a new feature in its API: the capability to optionally put geolocation data into tweets. Currently, geo-focused apps like Foursquare must hack location data into updates by linking them to web pages. Once Twitter lets developers embed geo into tweets themselves, a…
Arrested MP DNA removed from file
The Tory MP arrested after obtaining leaked Whitehall documents has hailed a “small but significant victory for freedom” after police chiefs agreed to remove his DNA profile from a national database. Shadow immigration minister Damian Green said the Metropolitan Police had made the “right decision” to remove his DNA but called for the records of…