MaryClaire Dale reports that the school spycam case has not been ratcheted up a notch: The FBI is investigating a Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly activating webcams inside students’ homes, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Friday. The FBI will explore whether Lower Merion School District…
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TSA to swab airline passengers’ hands in search for explosives
Jeanne Meserve and Mike M. Ahlers report: To the list of instructions you hear at airport checkpoints, add this: “Put your palms forward, please.” The Transportation Security Administration soon will begin randomly swabbing passengers’ hands at checkpoints and airport gates to test them for traces of explosives. Previously, screeners swabbed some carry-on luggage and other…
ID: Man who posted wolf hunter info on web responds to privacy legislation
Dustin Hurst reports: Legislators 0n the House Resources and Conservation Committee introduced a bill Thursday to protect the identity of any hunter that kills a wolf in Idaho. The man who caused this bill to be brought before the Legislature thinks it is bad legislation. The issue arose when Idaho opened up a wolf hunt…
Thoughts on the Oral Argument in the Third Circuit Cell-Site Records Case
Over on The Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr blogs about oral arguments in a case before the Third Circuit in which the government wants cell phone location data to be made available to it without any warrant: The Third Circuit held oral argument today in the case on the legal standard for historical cell-site information. I…