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…
Category: Surveillance
UK Govt Mail Services operations manager on allegedly illegal mail screening
Which is exactly what the GMS have been doing. Just a little bit of background information. GMS is the Government Mail Service which are a department within government who protect government employees from terrorist attacks such as mail bombs, razor blades and probably anthrax – but they are only supposed to screen incoming mail to…
Retired Navy officer sentenced for invasion of privacy
He secretly videotaped his teenage stepdaughters in the bathroom, undressing and taking a shower and then made illegal videos. News stories on KHON2 and KITV report that in a Honolulu courtroom, Judge Michael Town sentenced Robert Thomas Franks to a year in prison under a relatively new law there, “invasion of privacy.” Franks must serve…
Miami health centre starts RFID soap snooping
RFID tags are being deployed at the University of Miami to report when doctors and nurses wash their hands, and let them know if their fingernails aren’t clean. In contrast to previously-suggested systems involving chemical sniffers, the RFID-based technology being used in Miami just monitors when a doctor or nurse is near a bed and…