sosadmin writes: Did you know that a private company which hoards detailed information about your driving habits also has plans to create the largest private sector law enforcement database in the world, by combining plate reads with commercial databases, face recognition technology and more? Vigilant Video is a private corporation. It maintains a database called…
Category: U.S.
Angst over net surveillance detected on Hill
Tony Romm writes: Federal law enforcers say they have their hands full with criminals who skirt legal surveillance by using hard-to-wiretap services like Google and Facebook. Now they’re about to inherit a new foe in the fight: Capitol Hill. Some of the top lawmakers closely aligned with civil liberties and Silicon Valley interests are expressing…
Government obtains wide AP phone records in leak probe
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…
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….