From CDT.org: CDT testified Wednesday before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on reevaluating the REAL ID Act. CDT testified in support of the PASS ID Act, noting that it mitigates or corrects critical privacy and security flaws introduced by REAL ID, while still establishing minimum federal standards for the issuance…
Category: Surveillance
Greece to allow CCTV, DNA database
Greece’s parliament has approved measures allowing police to use surveillance camera footage and create a DNA database, angering opposition parties that say the new powers will trample on people’s privacy. The measures by the conservative government follow massive riots in December and a surge in bombings and shooting attacks by domestic militant groups. Read more…
Researcher: Blackberry update spies on users
A BlackBerry update that a United Arab Emirates service provider pushed out to its customers contains U.S.-made spyware that would allow the company or others to siphon and read their e-mail and text messages, according to a researcher who examined it. The update was billed as a “performance-enhancement patch” by the UAE-based phone and internet…
Yoo responds to report criticizing him: Editorial
John Yoo, the attorney who was allegedly hand-picked by the Bush administration to be read into the President’s Surveillance Program so that he would give them paper providing legal justification, has responded to last week’s report by inspector generals on the program and his role in it. In an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street…