Gail Jozitis isn’t the first person to walk out of a Bank of America with an empty wallet, incensed over the bank’s fingerprinting policy. As is the case with all customers who don’t have an account with the bank, when she tried earlier this month to cash a check drawn on a Bank of America…
Category: Surveillance
EU expected to share bank details with U.S.
Although howls of protests have been raised, European Union foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday were expected to give the green light for further negotiations between the EU and the US on providing bank details to American authorities in terrorism investigations. […] In fact, the US has already had access to European banking information…
VT regulators drop probe of telecom role in wiretaps
The Vermont Public Service Board has dropped its investigation into whether AT&T and Verizon shared Vermont residents’ telephone calling records with the National Security Agency (NSA). The Board said it was dropping the probe in light of the fact that the FISA Amendments Act passed in 2008 by Congress gave the companies immunity against any…
Portsmouth wiretap bugs city workers
The Portsmouth Police Department doesn’t deny it placed a recording device in its records room – without proper notification – to eavesdrop on its clerks. It’s just that neither the police nor County Attorney Jim Reams believe any laws were broken. But the more we think about the official explanation for these improper recordings the…