According to The Register, Connecticut’s attorney general June 7 became the latest law enforcement official to order Google to give a detailed accounting of the information its Street View cars surreptitiously sniffed from unsecured Wi-Fi networks over a three-year period. He joins officials in Missouri, France, Germany, Spain, Canada and Australia in ordering the search giant to be more forthcoming about the privacy violation. (See item 54)
ABC News reports that a recent internal FBI report warns federal, state, and local authorities to be alert for a potential new tool in the jihad terror arsenal – the placing of suspicious, but harmless, bags in public places to inspire fear, disrupt public transportation, and tie up police and bomb squads. The so called “battle of suspicious bags” was encouraged by an unknown poster to a known jihadi Web site. (See item 61)
