Chad Skelton reports: The Vancouver police department’s plans to use automatic licence-plate readers to track gangsters’ movements could have a real impact on gang violence, according to one of the first U.S. police departments to deploy the technology. “It’s been great for us and, looking at what they want to do in Vancouver, I think…
Category: U.S.
Congress already voted against TSA naked child scanning — ditto for state laws against opposite sex groping and scanning
The following was published on December 6, but just came to my attention thanks to a helpful reader. Denis Drew writes: How can TSA administrative regs — composed with delegated Congressional legislative power – overwrite an explicit Congressional prohibition of naked child imaging: a legislative house divided against itself? Said prohibition passed First Amendment muster…
Privacy key in repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
From an editorial in Navy Times about the repeal of DADT: …. There will be challenges. About 24 percent of troops say they’d quit or at least consider quitting the service if repeal happens. Still, with leaders seemingly committed, it’s time to figure out how to make this work with minimal disruption. That means focusing…
Review of FTC’s Proposed Privacy Framework – Part 1
Richard L. Santalesa writes: Last week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its anticipated 122-page staff report on Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers (the “Report”), which we covered in brief here immediately following its release. In this part of our review, and in following parts, we…