As an ex-Brit, I’m well aware of the authorities’ love of surveillance and snooping, but even I, a pessimistic cynic, am amazed by the governments latest plan: to install Orwell’s telescreens in 20,000 homes. £400 million ($668 million) will be spend on installing and monitoring CCTV cameras in the homes of private citizens. Why? To…
Category: Surveillance
Deutsche Bank sued over spying
Deutsche Bank AG shareholder Michael Bohndorf, who was spied on by detectives the bank hired, sued the lender and its chairman Clemens Boersig over the investor- espionage affair. …. The action seeks to make Deutsche Bank and Boersig reveal the findings of an internal investigation into possible privacy-law violations, according to the 25 page complaint…
Workplace surveillance lawsuit tossed
The California Supreme Court Monday rejected a lawsuit filed against a Southern California residential children’s center by two clerical workers who learned there was a surveillance camera hidden in their office. The camera and a related motion detector were set up by officials at the Hillsides Children’s Center in Los Angeles County in 2002 in…
Bank fingerprinting goes much too far
The Nashua Telegraph editors have published an editorial opposing the use of the Thumbprint Signature Program for bank security. They write, in part: There is no reason to doubt Bank of America’s claim that the fingerprints are kept on check images stored only on the bank’s computers, and that those images are never provided to…