Joe Cadillic writes: It’s official, big brother has invaded sports arenas, stadiums and parks. According to an article in TSN, The National Hockey League (NHL) plans to install facial recognition cameras in their arenas. The above video, is a perfect example of how law enforcement uses our fears of terror [Read More…]
How many posts have I posted by now about government over-reach on surveillance and the need to vigorously defend our right to privacy? A lot, right? And I realize that I am really only pseudoanonymous, but I think I’ve made it perfectly clear to most parties that I do not [Read More…]
Tim Cushing reports: It’s amazing what effect a little public scrutiny has on government overreach. In the wake of inauguration day protests, the DOJ started fishing for information from internet service providers. First, it wanted info on all 1.2 million visitors of a protest website hosted by DreamHost. After a [Read More…]
Owen Bowcott reports: MI5 and MI6 may be circumventing legal safeguards when they share bulk datasets with foreign intelligence services and commercial partners, a court has been told. Most of the bulk personal datasets relate to UK citizens who are not of “legitimate intelligence interest”, the investigatory powers tribunal (IPT) [Read More…]