Siding with security needs over privacy rights, the Supreme Court ruled today that jailers may subject people arrested for minor offenses to invasive strip searches.
It was, in its time, a soothing miracle cure or a humiliating school day when I smelled like an over mentholated pine forest. But it’s also an example of a domino falling, which can lead to surprising places, both good and bad. There are domino effect examples throughout the security field, too.
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst has been ordered stop all unnecessary recordings in the campus’s new police station following complaints from the officers themselves.
Britons are being watched by a network of 1.85 million security video, the vast majority of which are run by private companies, according to the first large-scale audit of surveillance cameras conducted in the world.
If the European Commission has its way, all air travelers regardless of nationality will have to give their personal details to national authorities when they fly in or out of the European Union.
A study by People Security and commissioned by 3M, reveals two-thirds of employees expose sensitive data outside the workplace – some even exposing highly regulated and confidential information such as customer credit card and social security numbers.
There was a time when people defined privacy as the right to be left alone, spurred by Supreme Court Justices way back when who saw the need to protect from the intrusion of instant cameras, of all things. Then there was a 2.0 definition that required a person to show harm of a so-called privacy violation in such areas as intrusion upon seclusion, appropriate of name or likeness, publicity given to private life, and publicity placing a person in a false light.
