Mark Berman reports: Around Washington, surveillance cameras are always watching. They peer from rooftops, lurk at intersections and even observe people riding a bus to work. And on Montgomery County’s Ride On buses, the cameras do more than capture what they see. Many cameras also record what they hear, a little-known function that bothers civil…
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Cops to Congress: We need logs of Americans’ text messages
Declan McCullagh reports: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, and other wireless providers would be required to record and store information about Americans’ private text messages for at least two years, according to a proposal that police have submitted to the U.S. Congress. CNET has learned a constellation of law enforcement groups has asked the U.S. Senate…
Vibrant Seeks Dismissal Of Safari-Hack Lawsuit
Wendy Davis reports: Arguing that consumers weren’t injured “in any legally recognizable way,” Vibrant Media has formally asked a federal judge to throw out a privacy lawsuit stemming from the so-called Safari hack. Vibrant’s request came in response to a potential class-action lawsuit filed in May by Web users Daniel Mazzone and Michelle Kusanto. They alleged that…
Editorial: Privacy trumps need for cellphone surveillance
The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an editorial today supporting a warrant standard for cellphone records. You can read it here.