The Tel Aviv District Labor Court has ruled that it is permissible for National Insurance Institute investigators to impersonate the employees of a public body and photographing a person who has applied for, or receives, a disability pension, in order to verify that person’s true medical condition. Read more on Globes.
Category: Surveillance
Gibtelecom: Come back with a warrant
The Royal Gibraltar Police has been demanding that Gibtelecom supply them with subscriber information without a court order or search warrant. Gibtelecom have refused. Contacted by PANORAMA, chief executive officer Tim Bristow said that Gibtelecom, like its predecessors Nynex and Gibtel, “have only ever provided the Police with access to subscribers’ telecommunications data on the…
NH AG upholds wiretap ruling
Acting New Hampshire Attorney General Orville Fitch announced Friday no crime was committed when the conversations of civilian employees in the city Police Department’s records office were recorded without their knowledge, upholding County Attorney Jim Reams’ earlier review of the matter. In a news release, Fitch said his office reviewed Reams’ three-page report, which advised…
Feinstein: Setting the record straight on warrantless wiretapping program
For the past three and a half years there has been a major debate over the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program. This program, which involved the surveillance of communications between Americans and people outside of the country, began shortly after September 11. It was brought to public light in December 2005, was the subject…