Andrew Crocker writes: In 2010, the FBI attached a GPS device to the car of a man named Fred Robinson and continuously monitored his whereabouts for nearly two months—all without getting a warrant. Now Robinson is on trial, and on Friday, the ACLU and its affiliate, the ACLU of Eastern Missouri, filed an amicus brief in his…
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Coming up this week in the Senate: What Facial Recognition Technology Means for Privacy and Civil Liberties
I won’t be online much Wednesday morning, but wanted to note this upcoming hearing: “What Facial Recognition Technology Means for Privacy and Civil Liberties” Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law DATE: July 18, 2012 TIME: 02:30 PM ROOM: Dirksen 226 OFFICIAL HEARING NOTICE / WITNESS LIST: July 11, 2012 NOTICE OF…
Vast F.D.A. Effort Tracked E-Mails of Its Scientists
Let’s start the work week with a news story on workplace surveillance. Eric Lichtblau and Scott Shane report: A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to…
Charges dropped against man accused of reading wife’s e-mail; she snooped, too
Wow. After two years of following a case where an ex-husband was charged with a felony for snooping on his ex-wife’s email, I just read that the case was dropped at the 11th hour. L.L. Brasier reports: Prosecutors dropped felony charges Friday against a Rochester Hills man accused of snooping in his wife’s e-mail after…