The TSA’s problems with the body scanners that take nude pictures of you and the obscene “pat downs” that are little more than grope sessions where TSA employees handle your junk wearing the same gloves they used to handle the last person’s junk. The controversy and outrage over this and the delays it causes in […]
I just read something on Slashdot that should be a great big red flag to anyone that has any interest in email privacy at all. The 11th Circuit court handed down a decision in Rehberg v. Paulk which severely limits how much fourth amendment protection there is for Email. The decision was that constitutional protection […]
Time was when the classic image of somebody bugging somebody electronically involved finding a Sam Spade wannabe in some hole in the wall office with little more than a filing cabinet or two, a bottle of scotch and a huge desk that served as a place to store a box of Dutch Master cigars, a […]
The latest thing in Big Brother technology is a rather “special” mobile phone that uses a combination of GPS technology and Software that analyzes data from the phone’s accelerometer which enables employers to track employees on an unprecedented level, even to the point of being able to tell what an employee is doing in addition […]
If at any point you had the idea that Obama was some kind of a champion of human rights and civil liberties, you might want to check this piece on Wired and think again. Not only does he come out in favor of requiring DNA testing for everybody that’s arrested for any reason. He’s also […]