From EPIC.org: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has exempted the FBI Data Warehouse System, from important Privacy Act safeguards. The database ingests troves of personally identifiable information including race, birthdate, biometric information, social security numbers, and financial information from various government agencies. The database contains information on a surprisingly broad category of individuals, including “subjects, suspects, victims, witnesses,…
Category: U.S.
A sandwich away from a privacy violation
John Fontana reports: In Carroll County, Md., school students as young as five years old are using their palm prints to pay for lunch. In the name of efficiency, a student’s print identifies them and records a charge for their meal. Some parents aren’t happy, and are joining a growing debate over the privacy implications…
Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit
David G. Savage reports that the Supreme Court did not grant certiorari in Hepting v. AT&T, one of the cases that dealt with the role of telecoms in the Bush administration’s warrantless domestic surveillance program: The Supreme Court has ended a 6-year-old class-action lawsuit against the nation’s telecommunications carriers for secretly helping the National Security Agency monitor…
Interesting Article on United States v. Collins, Case on Ex Ante Limitations on Computer Warrants
Orin Kerr comments on a situation discussed in a recent Law.com article on U.S. v. Collins (mentioned here). One of the issues raised by defense counsel concerns the prosecution hanging on to unnecessary and irrelevant computer files on seized computers when the warrants contained clauses saying that materials not needed for prosecution would be deleted…