Airport “Naked” Body Scanners Get Privacy Upgrade to Anonymize Your Naughty Bits
Airport security scanners that literally see through your clothes are contentious. Because … well, think about shadowy TSA guys peeping at your bits. Hence some firms are now tweaking them to anonymize your “x-rays” to protect your decency. The issues surrounding through-clothes airport security imagers are complex, and the matter has got stickier in the…
Court OKs Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking
A federal appeals court said Tuesday the government may obtain cell-site information mobile phone carriers retain on their customers without a probable cause warrant under the Fourth Amendment. The decision (.pdf) by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, however, was not an outright Obama administration victory. Lower courts, the three-judge panel wrote, could demand…
