Manchester City Council has been unlawfully prosecuting motorists based on evidence from surveillance cameras, according celebrity lawyer Nick Freeman. Known as ‘Mr Loophole’ for his success in getting people off motoring offences, he says that four cameras in the city centre and university district are used to “illegally raise revenue”. He says: “It is totally…
Category: Surveillance
Sentencing postponed in HP phone record scandal
Sentencing has been postponed for a private investigator who helped Hewlett-Packard Co. unearth private telephone records of board members and journalists. Bryan Wagner is the last remaining defendant from the spying scandal that erupted in 2006 and engulfed one of technology’s most storied companies. He pleaded guilty 2 1/2 years ago to identity theft and…
You deleted your cookies? Think again
More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plugin to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers reported Monday. Unlike traditional browser cookies, Flash cookies are relatively unknown to web…
Saudi women use spyware to monitor spouses’ activity
Women in Saudi Arabia are randomly loading spyware on the desktops, laptops, and other electronics related to the Internet of their husbands to monitor for unfaithfulness or attempts at infidelity. Say experts that spyware is referred to any stealthy, malicious PC software which gathers personal information transmitted via the Internet. Reportedly, the software that Saudi…