Leave my e-mail alone!
Catalina Carmona For quite some time now, both industry and privacy advocates have pointed out the need of reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The main argument is…
Mistakes By Credit Reporting Agencies
Zachary King This past Sunday 60 Minutes aired a report about the enormous amount of mistakes made by credit reporting agencies. (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57567957/40-million-mistakes-is-your-credit-report-accurate/). In the report Steve Kroft cites…
Understanding Facebook Privacy
Jessica Heimler http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/technology/personaltech/protecting-your-privacy-on-the-new-facebook.html?smid=tw-nytimes With Facebook consistently rolling out new features and subsequent privacy settings, many people may be unaware as to how to best protect their online information.…
US Interests behind proposed amendments to the EU’s planned General Data Protection Regulation.
Akiva Miller The approaches to privacy regulation taken by Europe and the United States are often seen as being at odds with one another. The European regulatory scheme is characterized as…
FTC uses the Fair Credit Reporting Act to protect social media users
Peter Kauffman http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/technology/ftc-levies-first-fine-over-internet-data.html Last June, the Federal Trade Commission assessed an $800,000 penalty on Spokeo, a data collection agency, for distributing personal information as a way for potential employers…
No Asking Sexual Activity: NASA v. Nelson Qualified by Federal District Court
By: Can Cui In December 2011, a Michigan employer’s motion for summary judgment on a job applicant’s right to privacy claim was denied over questions asked in a routine pre-employment…
New Telecommunications Provider Aims to Enforce Privacy Rights against Government Surveillance through Consumer Autonomy
New Telecommunications Provider Aims to Enforce Privacy Rights against Government Surveillance through Consumer Autonomy By Sofia Rahman CNET reports that the first ISP executive to challenge the government’s demands for…
New York Moves To Protect Health Data Privacy
Emily Millner As New York Builds Its Health Information Exchange, New And Complex Privacy Issues Arise. The move towards implementation of health information exchange (HIE) introduces new concerns regarding…
Genomic Testing and the Affordable Health Care Act
By: Fahd Reyaz Genomic testing is becoming cheaper and companies are able to provide better assessments of risk for complex diseases based on an individual’s genome. As more individual’s purchase…
Online Privacy
Julia Angwin & Jeremy Singer-Vine, Selling You on Facebook, Wall St. J. (Apr. 10, 2012), http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303302504577327744009046230.html. By: Randall Norman Online privacy is a hotly debated topic right now. Some of…