Spiegel Online has published two articles in the past week on the tension between the EU and US in response to US demands for personal information: New US Demands for Information Angers European Parliament begins: US officials are demanding access to additional European police databases in their hunt for potential terrorists traveling to the US….
Category: U.S.
Database of suspicious activity going live with little attention
G.W. Schulz reported this last week, but I just saw it now: Federal officials are closer to establishing what amounts to a nationwide database of so-called “suspicious activity reports” that describe possible evidence of terrorist attack planning. Reports will be submitted not just by state and local police and agencies within the Department of Homeland…
MCLU: Unpopular law could be headed toward repeal
Bonnie Warshuk reports: With a growing number of school boards advising parents not to give the state their children’s Social Security numbers, the law could be headed for repeal next year in Augusta, the Maine Civil Liberties Union said Thursday. So far, school committees in 14 cities and towns have voted to recommend parents not…
U.S. Government Requests for Google Data Rise 20%
Ryan Singel writes: The number of U.S. government requests for Google data rose 20% in the last six months, according to new data released by the search giant Monday. U.S. government agencies sent Google 4,287 requests for data on Google users and services from January 1 to June 30, 2010, an average of 23.5 a…