Mar 07 2016

The cost of requiring ID for library cards

To: Julie Holcomb, Abigail Franklin, Darryl Moore, Jim Novosel, Winston Burton, City of Berkeley <bolt@ci.berkeley.ca.us> From: Eric Neville Subject: The cost of requiring ID for library cards Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 09:05:15 -0800 Dear Board of Library Trustees: Sometimes the cost of how we do things sneaks up on us. I grew up visiting […]

Feb 06 2015

Feds aggregating license-plate scans to track vehicles and people in real time

We’ve talked a lot about government surveillance and control of air travelers, and occasionally about its extension to bus and train travel.  (Our FOIA request about this to Amtrak remains unanswered and several months overdue for a response.) But can you avoid being tracked and watched by the government if you travel by private car? […]