A tweet from the World Privacy Forum pointed out this excellent article by Willie D. Jones on ieee Spectrum. Here’s a snippet: … “I don’t see how there can be an expectation of [EDR] privacy in a criminal case,” Gillingham insists. “When you’re driving on public land, you give up expectation of privacy.” Challenged on…
Category: U.S.
Report claims Saints GM Loomis could eavesdrop; Loomis denies
Interesting claims and denials out of New Orleans concerning whether the Saints General Manager Loomis was eavesdropping on opposing teams’ coaches’ play calls back in the early 2000’s. How many laws would that break if it was true? You can read about the allegations and Loomis’s categorical denial on The Chicago Tribune.
DHS’s “appropriate” use of social media?
So… does this strike anyone as an appropriate use of social media by DHS? Eleven hours before I was arrested during the Occupy Miami eviction in January, the Miami-Dade Police Homeland Security Bureau sent an email to various police officers, which was then forwarded to the department’s public information officers – including arresting officer Major…
TSA program to turn jumped-up mall cops into mind-readers didn’t work
A long-time reader whose read my posts on pseudoscience and the like sent me a link to an article I had missed. Cory Doctorow quotes a post by Bruce Schneier reacting to a news report by Stewart M. Powell and Yang Wang in the Houston Chronicle: Interesting data from the U.S. Government Accounting Office: But congressional auditors have…