During Senator Orrin Hatch’s questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the nominee discussed the “right of privacy:” She said the “right to privacy” is actually a misnomer. “I’ve not viewed what the court has been doing as creating a right that doesn’t exist in the words of the Constitution. What I understand the court…
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Police wiretapping probed in Portsmouth
For four or five months, a microphone recorded conversations without the knowledge of civilian employees working inside the Police Department’s records office. Digital recordings of their conversations were fed to a supervisor’s computer, allowing the supervisor to listen to everything said inside the records office from a different floor in police headquarters and in real-time….
Pay as you drive “black boxes” threaten privacy
The California Department of Insurance (DOI) is considering regulations that would enable insurance prices to depend on the precise number of miles a car is driven in a given billing period. But in implementing these “Pay As You Drive” regulations, the DOI appears poised to empower insurance companies to require customers’ cars to be outfitted…
Feds say ‘dragnet’ lawsuit threatens security
David Kravets of Threat Level has a report as to what happened this morning in the Jewel v. NSA case in Judge Vaughn Walker’s courtroom. “What has changed between now and 2006 that suggests I should take a different view of this argument?” Walker asked Coppolino about the government’s state secrets assertion. Coppolino said Walker…