How to Catch a Terrorist: Read His Brainwaves
It’s been a dream of scientists, interrogators and law enforcement professionals for years: Strap a terrorist suspect to a couple of electrodes, start asking him questions, and watch his brainwaves rat him out. In a recent paper, a Northwestern University professor uses some of his recent fieldwork to urge the intelligence community to give the…
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…
