Tag Archives: unlawful search and seizure
US Supreme Court backs DNA database for citizens
“Make no mistake about it: because of today’s decision, your D.N.A. can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/supreme-court-says-police-can-take-dna-samples.html?ref=us The point of D.N.A. testing as it is actually practiced, he said, is to solve cold cases, not to identify the suspect […]
Judge criticizes NY Stop and Frisk
“A lot of people are being frisked or searched on suspicion of having a gun and nobody has a gun,” Judge Scheindlin, of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said on Monday during closing arguments in the trial. “So the point is: the suspicion turns out to be wrong in most of the cases.” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/nyregion/judge-skeptical-of-new-york-police-stops-effectiveness.html?hp Observing […]
FBI wants access to internet phone and video messages
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made it clear it wants to intercept Internet audio and video chats. And that, according to a new report being released Friday by a group of technologists, could pose “serious security risks” to ordinary Internet users, giving thieves and even foreign agents a way to listen in on Americans’ […]
US slows “Plastic Guns for Everyone” campaign
The US government has demanded designs for a 3D-printed gun be taken offline. The order to remove the blueprints for the plastic gun comes after they were downloaded more than 100,000 times. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22478310 Before making the Liberator, Mr Wilson got a licence to manufacture and sell the weapon from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, […]
Dirty Babylon 