Over on Salon, David Rosen has a lengthy article detailing the expansion of student surveillance in the U.S. A lot of it is what I’ve been blogging about for the past few years, but if you’re new to this blog, he provides a good recap of what’s going on in various states and why. Disappointingly…
Category: U.S.
Homeland Security Learns to Love Small Spy Drones
Spencer Ackerman writes: There was a time when the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t enthusiastic about its drone fleet. Unmanned flying surveillance ‘bots had the potential to freak out the public, top DHS science and technology officials worried. That time has evidently passed — particularly for smaller flying spies. In the coming months, Fort Sill,…
Article: Facebook and Interpersonal Privacy: Why the Third Party Doctrine Should Not Apply [DRAFT]
Monu Singh Bedi of DePaul University College of Law has uploaded a draft version of an upcoming issue of Boston College Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Do communications over social networking sites such as Facebook merit Fourth Amendment protection? The Supreme Court has not directly answered this question and lower courts are not in agreement….
Suspicion over Dotcom net glitch
David Fisher reports: Kim Dotcom’s internet connection was being diverted inside New Zealand weeks before the Government Communications Security Bureau says it started spying on him. The Herald has obtained details showing Telecom engineers and staff at its technology services company Gen-I were investigating irregularities with his internet connection in November. The revelation has raised suspicion that…