Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
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…
Several recent NY Times articles reflect growing concerns over increasing government access to and retention of communications and other data here in the U.S.: Police Are Using Phone Tracking…
Does your level of Fourth Amendment protection vary inversely with the convenience of your digital life? Matthew Smith Today, Ars Technica published an excellent rundown of the various approaches that…
Kevin Frick “Can You Track Me Now?...Good.” Do Police Need a Warrant for Cell Phone Location Data? Last week, the question of whether law enforcement officials required to get a…
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…
Mu-Chia Kao 9th Circuit: ECPA protects domestic communications of non-US citizens In Suzlon Energy Ltd. v. Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit uphold a…
See Catherine Crump (ACLU and PRG member) quoted in this article about employers and prospective employers asking for access to Facebook accounts: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/22/tech/social-media/facebook-password-employers/index.html
Hannah Bloch-Wehba US continues to receive wholesale financial data from EU banking org. without a warrant The Europol Joint Supervisory Body (JSB) recently released a report confirming that the U.S. continues to…