Lawsuit challenges airport full-body scanners
Katie Johnston Chase Boston Globe A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of the controversial full-body scanners…
Katie Johnston Chase Boston Globe A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of the controversial full-body scanners…
Glenn Greenwald Salon Forbes‘ technology writer Andy Greenberg reports that at the Defcon Security Conference yesterday, an individual named Chet Uber appeared with revelations about the case of accused…
MSNBC The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable…
Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary by Lee Tien Coauthored by Seth Schoen The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled “National Strategy…
Miguel Bustillo The New York Times Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear,…
Gary Stoller USA Today Opposition to new full-body imaging machines to screen passengers and the government’s deployment of them at most major airports is growing….
Daniel Tencer Raw Story A bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate requiring all airports to use full-body scanners lacks sufficient privacy safeguards, says a prominent…
Are technological advances infringing on our right to privacy? Activist Post The war on terror is a worldwide endeavor that has spurred massive investment into the…
Spy tech that ‘monitors conversations’ being launched in Europe: report Daniel Tencer Raw Story Privacy rights advocates and civil liberties campaigners in Europe are raising…
Los Angeles Times Apple collecting, sharing iPhone users’ precise locations Apple Inc. is now collecting the “precise,” “real-time geographic location” of its users’ iPhones, iPads…