Mark Sherman of the Associated Press broke the story yesterday: The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department…
Category: U.S.
Nordstrom No Longer Tracking Customer Smart Phones
Angela Martin of CBS-DFW follows up on a story mentioned previously on this blog: Nordstrom is no longer collecting information from the smart phones of its customers. Earlier this week, CBS 11 told you about the technology being used at 17 Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack stores across the country, including the NorthPark store in Dallas….
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform
David Kravets reports: The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system. Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the…
Forget about drones: Are robots the next privacy threat?
Scott Bomboy writes: A United Nations report about “killer robots” is a new spin on the rising concern about drones—and the legal problems caused by self-guided machines could be closer than you think. The U.N. Human Rights Commission plans to address part of the issue later this month in Geneva. Christof Heyns, a South African…