The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the United States Supreme Court today to ensure that modern communications methods such as text messages retain the constitutional privacy protections applied to earlier technologies. In an amicus brief in City of Ontario v. Quon, EFF sided with a public employee who was allowed personal use of his work…
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Slovak manager to sue Deutsche Telekom over spying
A Slovak Telekom employee who was one of the targets of Deutsche Telekom snooping activities in Eastern Europe plans to sue the Germany’s telecoms giant for breach of privacy, his lawyer said Monday. Slovak Telekom security chief Frantisek Gaulieder, a former lawmaker, was among the people spied on by Deutsche Telekom AG, the Sme daily…
Senators push Obama for biometric national ID card
Declan McCullagh reports: Two U.S. senators met with President Obama on Thursday to push for a national ID card with biometric information such as a fingerprint, hand scan, or iris scan that all employers would be required to verify. In an opinion article published in Friday’s edition of the Washington Post, Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and…
National Worker ID Proposed in Comprehensive Immigration Bill
I missed this story last week about newly proposed legislation that would create worker ID cards: President Obama is scheduled to meet with Senators Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) later this week to discuss a Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) bill. At controversy is a proposed national worker ID which would be…