Chao Xiong reports: Civil liberties and personal privacy clashed Wednesday in the trial of a Little Canada man charged after filming paramedics as they helped an intoxicated and possibly suicidal patient. Kevin Beck, prosecuting for the city of Little Canada, argued that Andrew J. Henderson disrupted the paramedics when he refused to obey their request…
Month: February 2014
UK: Yahoo webcam images from millions of users intercepted by GCHQ
Spencer Ackerman and James Ball report: Britain’s surveillance agency GCHQ, with aid from the US National Security Agency, intercepted and stored the webcam images of millions of internet users not suspected of wrongdoing, secret documents reveal. GCHQ files dating between 2008 and 2010 explicitly state that a surveillance program codenamed Optic Nerve collected still images of Yahoo webcam chats in bulk and saved them to agency…
Oz feds kick the metadata retention can, again
Richard Chirgwin reports: The Australian Federal Police is renewing its push to sweep up as much telecommunications metadata as is humanly possible, as a Senate Committee conducts a review into telecommunications interception legislation. Metadata collection on a mass scale remains as controversial a topic under this government as it was under the prior government, and…
ID: Morse sponsors biometrics privacy law
Dave Goins reports: Legislation that would make unauthorized biometric data sales illegal got a thumbs-up from the House State Affairs Committee Tuesday. One vote shy of unanimous, the bill sponsored by Rep. Ed Morse was dispatched to the House floor from State Affairs. Morse, R-Hayden, said the bill was written to set appropriate privacy standards…