Emil Protalinski writes: Back in September, a US judge ruled that a school district violated the First Amendment (freedom of speech) and Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search and seizure) rights of a 12-year-old student by forcing her to hand over her Facebook password to school officials who in turn used it to search for messages they deemed inappropriate….
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TX: Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
Well, we knew this was coming… David Kravets reports: A Texas high school student is being suspended for refusing to wear a student ID card implanted with a radio-frequency identification chip. Northside Independent School District in San Antonio began issuing the RFID-chip-laden student-body cards when the semester began in the fall. The ID badge has…
FaceFirst’s biometric software can use a database of photos to identfy you in public
Joe Cadillic writes: Fire a gun and your location can be pinpointed, your face photographed and your identity instantly determined — all thanks to a new technology tag team. When Safety Dynamics’ acoustic sensors detect a gunshot, they zero in on the shooter’s location and point a high-resolution camera at his or her face. Airborne Biometrics…
Leahy scuttles his warrantless e-mail surveillance bill (UPDATED)
UPDATE: CNET has uploaded the amendments referred to in their prior posts today. They’re a far cry from what Senator Leahy proposed in September. So the question I have is: did the Senator actually draft these newer amendments to submit next week or is this a draft written by someone else who just wants the…