The Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained documents detailing how various federal agencies are using popular social networking sites to gather information for their investigations. Read more »
So, that high school in Philadelphia remotely spying on a student by activating the webcam on his school-issued laptop, while he was at HOME, without his knowledge? A federal judged ordered the school to disable the feature ASAP. It also turns out that the improper behavior the school accused the teen boy of was drugs, a charge he says is way mistaken: “They thought I was selling drugs because they thought I was popping pills when really I was just eating Mike & Ikes.” |FoxPhilly|
A public school in Philadelphia has been sued by the parents of a student recently disciplined by the school. The reason for the discipline and subsequent lawsuit? The school issues laptops to all students and apparently it’s been using the webcams to monitor the students away from school, like, AT HOME. Read more »
Not content with just ruining movies with those piercing emergency warning messages, the state of NY is developing a system that will seize control of video game consoles too in the event of a disaster, bad weather, or an Amber alert. |NYP|
When it comes to collecting and storing data, the NSA doesn’t play. The shadowy agency is reportedly building a massive facility in the Utah desert that is capable of storing yottabytes of data. I never even heard of a yottabyte, but it certainly sounds like a frightening amount of information. Crunch Gear breaks it down: Read more »
The police commissioner of Baltimore decided to act all American and not stalk Shirley’s Honey Hole. He’s vetoing a measure “worked out by the bar’s owner and a city attorney that would have allowed law enforcement to monitor live video feeds from surveillance cameras inside the tavern.” |BaltimoreSun|
England’s tradition of highly aggressive Big Brother intrusion is long and storied, but continues to evolve. No longer content with watching every move of its citizenry via a highly advanced surveillance blanket of CCTV cameras, authorities now want to inspect nostrills too. And with the cocaine torch they can. For the past few months, real life Adam Sutlers have been testing partygoers outside nightclubs with the special ultra violet detection device. If your face lights up green, your guilty and police can then search you. The solution? Drink Red Bull. |BBC|
With crime rates comparatively higher in Buffalo compared to both NYC and the nation on a whole, officials are hoping that a network of wireless video surveillance cameras can help curb crime. Generally located in the middle of nowhere, the 2nd largest city in New York State has plans on installing dozens more with Mayor Byron Brown promising “40 additional cameras by the end of the year.”
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