New "JUSTICE" Act Could Roll Back Telecom Immunity

Sep 18, 2009

Slashdot: Your Rights Online: Asmodae writes to tell us about a bill proposed in Congress that could roll back telecom retroactive immunity along with adding other privacy safeguards. The "Judicious Use of Surveillance Tools in Counter-Terrorism Efforts" (JUSTICE) Act advocates the "least intrusive means" of information collection and imposes many limit (Read More)

A History of Wiretapping

Sep 12, 2009

Slashdot: ChelleChelle writes "Wiretapping technology has grown increasingly sophisticated since the police first began to utilize it as a surveillance tool in the 1890s. What once entailed simply putting clips on wires has now evolved into building wiretapping capabilities directly into communications infrastructures (at the governm (Read More)

Privacy, Mobile Phones, and Ubiquitous Data Collection

Sep 03, 2009

Slashdot: Your Rights Online: ChelleChelle writes "Participatory sensing technologies are greatly expanding the possible uses of mobile phones in ways that could improve our lives and our communities (for example, by helping us to understand our exposure to air pollution or our daily carbon footprint). However, with these potential gains comes great ris (Read More)

Gennum Pioneers First HD Video-Over-Coax Interface for Surveillance, Industrial Imaging Applications | Reuters

Jul 14, 2009

CCTV BLOG: Gennum Pioneers First HD Video-Over-Coax Interface for Surveillance, Industrial Imaging Applications | Reuters: "Gennum Pioneers First HD Video-Over-Coax Interface for Surveillance, Industrial Imaging Applications"BURLINGTON, ONTARIO, Feb 25 (MARKET WIRE) --Security Show 2009, Tokyo, Booth #SS2403 Enabling equipment manuf (Read More)

Topics: surveillance, cctv

Cruising Fisherman's Wharf For New Passports' Serial Numbers

Jul 12, 2009

Slashdot: Your Rights Online: schwit1 writes "Fox News has an AP story on a SF hacker driving around and needing as little as 20 minutes to be successful in acquiring a passport number: 'Zipping past Fisherman's Wharf, his scanner detected, then downloaded to his laptop, the unique serial numbers of two pedestrians' electronic US passport cards embedded (Read More)

Topics: privacy, surveillance

India Sleepwalks Into a Surveillance Society

Jan 03, 2009

Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes "ZeroPaid has a fascinating roundup of news stories surrounding the latest surveillance laws passed in India, including a first-hand account of someone writing from inside India. The legislation in question is the Information Technology Act's amendment bill 2006, which was recently passed in the I (Read More)

Topics: surveillance, privacy

State loses attempt to argue anew for sex toy ban | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Aug 04, 2008

Submitted by Randomnicole: AUSTIN — A federal appeals court turned down Attorney General Greg Abbott's attempt to reinstate a ban on the sale and marketing of sex toys Friday, upholding its previous ruling that the prohibition violated Texans' right to privacy.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in February had struck down the Texas law, which made (Read More)

Topics: privacy

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