New York City Council Hearing on Algorithmic Transparency Bill
On Monday, October 16, the New York City Council's Committee on Technology held a hearing on the proposed bill INT 1696-2017, which "would require agencies that use algorithms or other…
PRG – Overview of Legal Implications of NSA Spying
Post-911 laws and FISA court developments. PRG Discussion on 9/18/13 FISA Act governs gathering of data about foreign actors, set up in wake of Watergate. Created framework for data collection…
Federal Court Strikes Down National Security Letter Statute
By: Matt Zimmerman On Friday, the federal district court for the Northern District of California released a 24-page opinion in which it struck down a national security letter (NSL) statute…
Do Fair Information Practices (FIPs) really create better outcomes?
http://www.markleweeklydigest.org/2012/09/eu-and-us-eye-privacy-in-parallel.html The article linked above adds to the comparative discussion between EU and US privacy regimes. In every conversation I can recall, Americans consider both the European and Canadian models…
Scary Description of New Hungarian Secret Police
In Paul Krugman's blog at the NYT, his colleague Kim Lane Scheppele has been periodically writing about the recent radical changes in Hungarian government. Today she wrote about the TEK,…
Google consent decree
This is what the Google-FTC consent decree says about changing it sharing practices: II. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that respondent, prior to any new or additional sharing by respondent of…
Natural Language Versus the Fourth Amendment on Search
(x-posted from Coffee House Talks) In doing the initial framing for an article on how to apply Helen Nissenbaum's theory of Contextual Integrity to the 4th Amendment, it has become…
Homeland Security moves forward with ‘pre-crime’ detection
Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the Department of Homeland Security is moving forward with a program called Future…
Washington Post on Domestic Spying
A in-depth report Monday in the Washington Post describes the expanding apparatus of US domestic intelligence since the September 11th Terrorist Attacks, including fusion centers, the new Suspicious Activity Reporting…
Ultimate Privacy: How to Disappear, Erase Digital Footprints & Vanish Without a Trace
Interesting Network World article posted in mid September: "As privacy seems harder to hold onto in this digital age, privacy expert Frank Ahearn can help you legally poof and fall…