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What about mail surveillance?

By Ira Nathenson on June 6, 2008

Yesterday’s posting on unconsented cell phone surveillance reminded me of an excellent column that Peter Shane wrote a while back in Jurist where he pointed out that any technical legality of the NSA surveillance program is besides the point.  Shane asked, what if the Post Office created a database with the addresses contained on every [...]

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Ends, means, and cell phone surveillance

By Ira Nathenson on June 5, 2008

As Wired.com reports, researchers affiliated with Northeastern University “secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home.” In the report on their study in the journal Nature (excerpt available online), the authors stated:
[O]ur understanding [...]

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The electronic leash: whatever happened to trusting your kids?

By Ira Nathenson on June 12, 2006

Verizon Wireless now offers a service that allows parents to track their kids’ movements through cellphones. According to News.com:
Parents can use the service to set up geographic limits and receive text alerts if their children, who also carry phones, go too far from home. The service also lets parents check where their offspring [...]

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