“Don't worry, all the cameras have
been removed. But we might put them back...”
Ca:
Concealed cameras in school washrooms have been removed, board says
September 18, 2012 by Dissent
Janet Bagnall reports:
News that there
have been, and might still be, secret surveillance cameras in
school washrooms has upset parents whose children attend New
Frontiers School Board schools in the South Shore community of
Châteauguay.
Wayne Goldthorpe,
director-general of the school board, admitted he was swamped with
phone calls from parents Monday after a news
report about the secret cameras was published on the weekend.
Goldthorpe said there were three cameras
installed, only two of which were functional.
Read more on Montreal
Gazette
[From the article:
Mark Quenneville,
a maintenance worker at the school board and president of Local 800
of the Federation of Quebec Labour, said union
members found at least six carefully hidden or disguised
surveillance cameras in the board’s schools, including one hidden
in a thermostat in the Nova centre.
… Last
spring, Local 800 filed a grievance with the school board over the
presence, it claimed, of four secret surveillance
cameras in the main maintenance shop room and in an
employee changing room.
…
Would the New Frontiers School Board put cameras back in? “Yes,
if it’s for the protection of the children, we would,”
said Goldthorpe. “We are required
by Quebec law to be actively involved in anti-bullying campaigns.
So, yes, we would do it.”
“Prevail”
must not mean “Stop.”
EPIC
Prevails in Mobile Body Scanner FOIA Case
September 18, 2012 by Dissent
From EPIC.org:
A federal district
court has awarded EPIC attorneys fees and costs in EPIC
v. DHS, No, 11-945, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that
resulted in the disclosure of information about the agency’s
plan to deploy body scanners at bus stations, train stations, and
elsewhere. The court found that EPIC had “substantially
prevailed” in the FOIA lawsuit and that “EPIC has demonstrated a
public benefit arising from the disclosed records.” EPIC has
several related FOIA lawsuits concerning new systems of mass
surveillance.
For more information, see EPIC
v. DHS (Mobile Body Scanners FOIA Lawsuit)
How timely!
UNMANNED
AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS
Measuring
Progress and Addressing Potential Privacy Concerns Would Facilitate
Integration into the National Airspace System
Learn how politicians flip flop over
time? Nothing new there...
September 17, 2012
Internet
Archives Launches TV News Search & Borrow with 350,000 Broadcasts
"[On September 17, 2012] the
Internet Archive launched TV
News Search & Borrow. This service is designed to help
engaged citizens better understand the issues and candidates in the
2012 U.S. elections by allowing them to search closed captioning
transcripts to borrow relevant television news programs. The
Internet Archive works to preserve the published works of humankind.
Inspired by Vanderbilt
University’s Television News Archive project, the Internet
Archive collects and preserves television news. Like library
collections of books and newspapers, this accessible archive of TV
news enables anyone to reference and compare
statements from this influential medium. The collection
now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from
national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington
D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they
are aired. Older materials are also being added."
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