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  • October 2008

    • Surveillance Plan Moves Forward, Despite Concerns

      Wall Street Journal  |  Oct 1, 08 10:42 AM CDT

      Surveillance Plan Moves Forward, Despite Concerns

      (Newser) - A Government Accountability Office review raises concerns about plans for domestic satellite surveillance, the Wall Street Journal reports, but Homeland Security will proceed anyway. A bill allows the agency to provide satellite imagery for emergency and scientific purposes, but could be expanded to include surveillance and border control. The department has no way to prevent abuse of the data. More »

  • September 2008

    • Court: Cops Wrong to Tape Man's Sex With Comatose Wife

      Associated Press  |  Sep 11, 08 9:13 PM CDT

      Court: Cops Wrong to Tape Man's Sex With Comatose Wife

      (Newser) - A Wisconsin court today threw out evidence against a man police videotaped having sex with his comatose wife in her nursing-home room, the AP reports, arguing that authorities violated his constitutional rights. The court ruled that David Johnson, 59, who’s been charged with felony sexual assault, had an expectation of privacy and that police violated his Fourth Amendment rights. More »

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      privacy  • Wisconsin  • sexual assault  • nursing homes  • Fourth Amendment

    • Cindy McCain, Lonesome Cowgirl

      New Yorker  |  Sep 10, 08 3:20 PM CDT

      Cindy McCain, Lonesome Cowgirl

      (Newser) - Cindy McCain is a classic Western loner who chose to raise her kids as a self-styled “single parent” in Phoenix rather than join John in Washington as he served in the Senate. She may be a size zero, but she has "unusual grit": she drives a race car, flies a plane, and she likes to tell stories of making big decisions and then springing them on John, Ariel Levy writes in the New Yorker . More »

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      John McCain  • Election 2008  • privacy  • Cindy McCain  • drug addiction  • New Yorker magazine

  • August 2008

    • Big Apple Is Big Brother, Privacy Advocates Warn

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 14, 08 8:58 PM CDT

      Big Apple Is Big Brother, Privacy Advocates Warn

      (Newser) - Anti-terrorism measures planned for New York City have civil liberties groups worried, the Guardian of London reports. Operation Sentinel calls for cameras to be placed at every bridge and tunnel into Manhattan to photograph every vehicle entering and leaving. Details would then be kept on a huge city database. More »

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      New York City  • New York  • privacy  • counterterrorism  • Manhattan  • NYPD  • Ground Zero  • civil liberties  • security cameras

    • Cops Knocked Over Using GPS to Tail Suspects

      Washington Post  |  Aug 13, 08 12:09 PM CDT

      Cops Knocked Over Using GPS to Tail Suspects

      (Newser) - As GPS units become cheaper and easier to use, police forces around the country are turning to the technology to easily track suspects. The Washington Post examines the advantages of this new crime-fighting weapon, and the privacy concerns it’s raising among critics. Cops can easily attach a GPS device to anyone’s car and remotely monitor the person’s whereabouts. More »

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      technology  • police  • privacy  • surveillance  • GPS  • police investigation  • criminal investigation  • search warrant

    • Duke Seeking More Privacy for British Royals

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Aug 6, 08 6:54 PM CDT

      Duke Seeking More Privacy for British Royals

      (Newser) - The Duke of Edinburgh is using a recent ruling by Britain’s High Court—one that sided against the press in the unfortunate Max Mosley Nazi sex scandal—as the basis for a legal challenge to win more privacy for the royal family, the Daily Telegraph reports. Prince Philip is taking a complaint against a paper that alleged he has prostate cancer to Britain’s Press Complaints Commission, hoping it will rule such information outside the realm of “public interest.” More »

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      media  • privacy  • British royals  • Prince Philip  • Max Mosley  • Duke of Edinburgh

  • July 2008
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