Kashmir Hill reports: Information sharing (or lack thereof) between intelligence agencies has been a sensitive topic in the U.S. After 9/11, there was a push to create fusion centers so that local, state, and federal agencies could share intelligence, allowing the FBI, for example, to see if the local police have anything in their files on a particular…
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NY court upholds GPS tracker on worker’s personal car
Associated Press reports: A midlevel New York court on Wednesday upheld the state use of a tracking device on an employee’s private car to investigate whether he was skipping work and falsifying time sheets. The Appellate Division panel split over whether that secret Global Positioning System tracking in 2008 violated Michael Cunningham’s constitutional privacy rights….
Malls track shoppers’ cell phones on Black Friday
Annalyn Censky reports: Attention holiday shoppers: your cell phone may be tracked this year. Starting on Black Friday and running through New Year’s Day, two U.S. malls — Promenade Temecula in southern California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Va. — will track guests’ movements by monitoring the signals from their cell phones. Read…
Do-not-track hypocrisy
Jeff Jarvis takes the New York Times to task for its editorial supporting a federal Do Not Track measure while their own behavior might be described as Extreme Tracking. You can read his column on Business Insider, here.