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…
Category: Surveillance
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…
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…