Airport `Naked Image’ Scanners in U.S. May Get Privacy Upgrades
John Hughes Bloomberg An Avatar will replace the naked body image Holli Powell, a Phoenix medical software consultant who flies every week, says she avoids…
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The All-Seeing Eye of the State: Scanners Leave No Place to Hide
John W. Whitehead Lew Rockwell “The only person who is still a private individual in Germany is somebody who is asleep.” ~ Robert Ley, a…
Why Freedom and Privacy Must Coexist, and How to Protect Yourself From Losing Both
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell Bob Bauman Sovereign…
The facial recognition software that will put a name to every photograph in the internet
The Daily Mail A software company is developing revolutionary software which provides the ability to identify people from photographs posted on the internet. Face.com has…
New Logan searches blasted
Logan airport security just got more up close and personal as federal screeners launched a more aggressive palms-first, slide-down body search technique that has renewed…
Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother
Austin Carr Fast Company We’ve all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s dystopian future, where the public is…
Aerial Surveillance Used To Enforce Laws
Frank Eltman Huffington Post RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — On New York’s Long Island, it’s used to prevent drownings. In Greece, it’s a tool to help solve…
Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images
Decan McCullagh CNET For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as…
Lawsuit challenges airport full-body scanners
Katie Johnston Chase Boston Globe A privacy advocacy group is suing the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of the controversial full-body scanners…
Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy
Glenn Greenwald Salon Forbes‘ technology writer Andy Greenberg reports that at the Defcon Security Conference yesterday, an individual named Chet Uber appeared with revelations about the case of accused…
Private Details of 100 Million Facebook Users Published Online
MSNBC The personal details of 100 million Facebook users have been collected and published online in a downloadable file, meaning they will now be unable…
Real ID Online? New Federal Online Identity Plan Raises Privacy and Free Speech Concerns
Electronic Frontier Foundation Commentary by Lee Tien Coauthored by Seth Schoen The White House recently released a draft of a troubling plan titled “National Strategy…
Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing
Miguel Bustillo The New York Times Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to roll out sophisticated electronic ID tags to track individual pairs of jeans and underwear,…
Backlash grows vs. full-body scanners
Gary Stoller USA Today Opposition to new full-body imaging machines to screen passengers and the government’s deployment of them at most major airports is growing….