Snooping on a snoop: RCMP installed hidden cameras in Montreal detective’s HQ

RCMP investigators testified in court Thursday how they installed hidden cameras to spy on detectives suspected of snooping into confidential databases then passing that information along to criminals. Montreal police detective Mario Lambert is accused of unlawfully retrieving information about license... Read more...

FISA Court Proposes New Court Rules

Steven Aftergood writes: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has proposed new rules to comply with the provisions of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008.  The Court reviews government applications for intelligence surveillance and physical search under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act... Read more...

Israel Data Access Stopped After Irish Objection

Objections levied by Irish European officials have put a stop to Israel gaining recognition for its data protection and access to sensitive information. The European Commission has announced it has halted a proposal to allow Israel access to potentially sensitive data on European Union citizens following... Read more...

US Withdrawal from Iraq Raises Questions about Future of Biometric Database

From EPIC.org: President Obama’s address on the end of the combat mission in Iraq has left open the question of what will happen to the massive biometric databases on Iraqis, assembled by the United States, during the course of the conflict. In 2007, EPIC, Privacy International, and Human Rights... Read more...

UK: Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond

Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker, and Graham Bowley report: In November 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved. Equally peculiar were stories... Read more...

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