Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Today's news roundup: Google continues to run afoul of European antitrust regulators. A newly-declassified FISA Court judgement from November ruled that "backdoor" warrantless email searches are legal under the Constitution. Microsoft has sued the US…
Please see below re: a summer study opportunity below at the UvA: Online activities quite often involve transfers of personal data between the European Union (EU) and the United States…
Facebook files a patent for identifying cameras through the vagaries of their hardware profiles. The ECJ Advocat General rules that the US/EU data "safe harbor" agreement fail to meet European data protection standards.
Hi all - if anyone's interested, the (perhaps too cryptic) slides which accompanied my talk last week are available below. Many thanks for everyone's feedback - more is certainly welcome!…
Courtesy of Salon's Andrew Leonard: "Let’s file this one under the category of things we were reasonably sure were happening already, but are still greatly annoyed to have confirmed. New…
location white paper
NYU/Princeton Conference on Mobile and Location Privacy: A Technology and Policy Dialog Date: Friday, April 13, 2012 Time: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Lipton Hall, 108 West 3rd Street…
From Prof. Rubinstein... BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION Docket No. 120214135-2135-01 Multistakeholder Process To Develop Consumer Data Privacy Codes of Conduct Request for Comments ________________________________________________________________________…
...or so says Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel.net: "NCTC turning NCTC’s authority to sometimes get domestic terrorism information into authority to get any dataset maintained by any executive agency that NCTC…
Not a great outcome... "The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a private pilot whose H.I.V.-positive status was improperly shared between government agencies cannot collect damages for the emotional distress…