Eric Nicholson reports that the use of tracking devices in Texas schools continues to expand: San Antonio’s Northside ISD, which became the focus of national controversy when an intensely evangelical high school sophomore refused to wear her RFID-equipped student ID because it was the Mark of the Beast, is not the first school district to track…
Category: U.S.
FISA court seeks release of declassified filings in secret Yahoo case
Carol D. Leonnig reports: The secret surveillance court that approved the U.S. government’s broad collection of millions of Americans’ e-mail and telephone records called Monday for the Obama administration to declassify and release as much as it can of one of the court’s early legal decisions sanctioning that collection. The chief of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance…
Lawsuit over classroom drug search taken to highest court
Claudette Riley reports: [..] The Burlisons, with help from the Rutherford Institute of Virginia, brought a lawsuit against Springfield Public Schools and the Greene County Sheriff’s Office that also named Superintendent Norm Ridder, Sheriff Jim Arnott and Central Principal Ron Snodgrass. The suit alleged Mizer’s Fourth Amendment rights against “unlawful search and seizure” were violated….
Researchers hack Verizon device, turn it into mobile spy station
Jim Finkle reports: Two security experts said they have figured out how to spy on Verizon Wireless mobile phone customers by hacking into devices the U.S. carrier sells to boost wireless signals indoors. […] “This is not about how the NSA would attack ordinary people. This is about how ordinary people would attack ordinary people,”…