Just as the world is beginning to get used to Google cars taking pictures of their neighborhood, now there’s a Google three-wheeler pedaling its way through college campuses and other pedestrian-only areas. The Associated Press has coverage of this. Photo credit: AP photographer Mark Stehle snapped this picture of Google cartographer Dexter Harris riding the…
Category: Surveillance
Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty sues TSA
The American Civil Liberties Union may have just earned itself a few more Republican admirers. Announcing a lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration for the “illegal” detention of the Campaign for Liberty’s treasurer in April at a St. Louis airport, the ACLU damned what it called a “troubling pattern” of aggressive invasions of privacy by…
The eavesdropping continues (Editorial)
Once again, the country is learning about how the federal government has been exceeding its legal authority and violating Americans’ most basic rights in the name of fighting terrorism. In a disturbing article in The Times on Wednesday, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau said that Congressional investigations suggest that the National Security Agency continues to…
UK: Ministers ‘do not value privacy’
The government does not appreciate the threat posed to privacy by surveillance, peers have warned. In a report, the Lords Constitution Committee says the Information Commissioner does not have enough power to prevent abuse by the private sector. Its chairman Lord Goodlad said ministers did not recognise the “fundamental importance of privacy”. In response, the…