Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
A Consumer Privacy Legislation? A Highly Debated Proposal since 2012 By: Ida Faustine Jacotey http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/technology/obamas-effort-on-consumer-privacy-falls-short-critics-say.html In February 2012, the White House, released “A framework for protecting Privacy and promoting innovation…
Dstillery Tracked 16,000 Iowa Caucus-goers via their phones: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dstillery-iowa-caucus_us_56c12cafe4b08ffac125b591 Facebook faces privacy-related antitrust enforcement in Germany: http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/02/facebook-faces-german-antitrust-privacy-probe/ FCC Settles with Verizon over super cookies: http://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-pay-1-35m-to-settle-fcc-probe-of-supercookies-1457372226
On Monday, the European Commission issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-US Privacy Shield, and replace the former Safe Harbour framework. The Privacy Shield will not…
American tech companies, especially those running social networking sites, often pride themselves on giving voice and information to oppressed netizens around the world. Many commend Twitter’s role in facilitating coordination…
Supreme Court hears oral argument on key exclusionary rule case: http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/argument-analysis-court-closely-divided-on-the-exclusionary-rule/ House Judiciary Committee meets on February 25 on International Conflicts of Law Concerning Cross Border Data Flow and Law Enforcement…
Privacy and Reporting Child Abuse By: Charles Kopel Privacy law came to the fore last month in Ontario, when two provincial government officials undertook a new public awareness campaign. Privacy…
Privacy Blog: About Ned By: Alec Webley Modern privacy law in the United States is often traced to “The Right to Privacy,” a law review article written by Samuel Warren…
By: Kevin Kirby Former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich has launched a new Internet browser called Brave that blocks advertisements by default, only to provide new ad space for Eich to…
Consumer Privacy Dimensions of the FCC’s Cable Box Proposal By: Dan Davidson The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently proposed increasing competition in the market for cable boxes, devices that are…
The FTC and the new US-EU framework for data transfer By: Elsa Mandel http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-216_en.htm On February 2nd, the European Commission and the United States announced their agreement on the “Privacy…