The Canadian government has been trying to modernize its surveillance and wiretapping laws for years now, to take into account the growth of cellphone and internet communications. Canada’s current telephone wiretap laws are more than 30 years old. Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said in June 2009 that the current legal framework was designed…
Category: Surveillance
House Bill Expands Oversight Of NSA
The House intelligence committee late Thursday approved measures to strengthen oversight of the National Security Agency and the overall intelligence community, including by making the jobs of NSA director and general counsel subject to Senate confirmation. The committee also voted to include provisions that would establish independent inspectors general at the NSA and at the…
HI: Good vote on school locker search (Editorial)
The state Board of Education is on solid ground in allowing public school officials to make sure that students’ lockers are not used as caches for weapons, illicit drugs or other contraband. Its decision to use dogs to sniff for drugs could be helpful as long as they don’t sniff students themselves in violation of…
Google’s trike-cam
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…